For over 30 years, I’ve explored the intersections of philosophy, spirituality, and the contemplative arts, drawn by a simple but profound curiosity:
What is it to be?
The Heart of Stillness is my ongoing inquiry into this question, a space where I share writings from a place of quiet listening rather than instruction. I’m not here to teach or convince, but to hold open a window to the silence that lives behind all concepts.
Through contemplation, reflection and poetry, I offer a gentle invitation to return to the quiet awareness that rests beneath thought and identity.
These writings are not conclusions, but companions for those who are called to turn inward, not to escape life, but to meet it with more honesty, gentleness, and clarity.
This is my way of remembering what I already am, and perhaps, what you are too.
This isn’t about adding more. It’s about uncovering what’s been here all along,
dormant, forgotten, or dismissed.
I explore this work through two parallel forms, one rooted in reflection, the other in poetry, both pointing back to the same stillness beneath words:
The Ground: Contemplative prose, essays and quiet reflections on the nature of being, awareness, and the dissolution of self.
The Song: Original poetry arising from silence, echoing the space before words.
Together, The Ground and The Song form an ongoing and evolving body of work I call The Dissolution of Self, an exploration into what remains when the idea of ‘me’ softens and presence begins to speak.
Let each piece be a mirror.
A way of remembering: The Heart of Stillness
With love and presence,
Ben
