TS ELIOT FOUR QUARTETS & BURNT NORTON
The Still Point.
There is a still point within you that does not belong to effort, practice, or achievement.
It is not reached by refining yourself or resolving every difficulty.
It is already here.
This still point is not an experience that comes and goes.
It is the unmoving ground in which all experience appears—thought, feeling, sensation, memory, even the sense of being someone on a journey.
When life feels turbulent, this stillness is not absent.
It is simply overlooked, obscured by the habit of trying to fix, manage, or escape what is happening.
But the moment the inner struggle softens, even slightly, this still point quietly reveals itself.
Resting here does not mean withdrawing from life.
It means no longer arguing with it.
From this place, action arises without strain, response without reactivity, and a deep, unearned peace becomes the backdrop of living.
This is the ultimate rest—not sleep, not retreat, but the end of inner resistance.
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Four Quartets are four interlinked meditations with the common theme being man's relationship with time, the universe, and the divine. In describing his understanding of the divine within the poems, T S Eliot blends his Anglo-Catholicism with mystical, philosophical and poetic works from both Eastern and Western religious and cultural traditions, with references to the Bhagavad-Gita and the Pre-Socratics as well as the Christian mystics, John of the Cross and Julian of Norwich.
