The hardest and most courageous act

"Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and taste and experience much less than usual….There are times, then, when in order to keep ourselves in existence at all we simply have to sit back for a while and do nothing.  And for a man who has let himself be drawn completely out of himself by his activity, nothing is more difficult than to sit still and rest, doing nothing at all.  The very act of resting is the hardest and most courageous act he can perform" - Thomas Merton