Clyde Lee Dennis here, and today in our seven good minutes.

Extra segment, we're contemplating this beautiful truth.

In the garden of a busy life, stillness is not the absence of growth, but the soil in which

wisdom takes root and peace blooms naturally.

This metaphor speaks to a fundamental misunderstanding many of us carry about the role of

stillness in a productive,

meaningful life. We often view quiet moments as empty spaces that need to be filled. As unproductive

time, that could be better spent doing something more important. But this perspective misses the

essential truth that stillness isn't the opposite of growth.

It's the condition that makes authentic growth possible.

Think about how a garden actually works.

The most important processes happen beneath the surface in the quiet darkness of the soil.

Seeds germinate in stillness.

Roots develop in silence.

The foundation for all visible growth occurs in the unseen,

unhurried space below ground. If a gardener constantly disturb the soil, constantly dug up the seeds to check their progress,

nothing would ever have the chance to grow properly. Your inner life works the same way, the insights that guide

your decisions, the creativity that fuels your work, the peace that sustains you through challenges,

these don't develop in the noise and rush of constant activity. They emerge from the fertile

stillness where your deeper wisdom has space to develop, and your authentic

self has room to breathe.

When you're always in motion, always consuming information, always responding to demands,

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