The Importance of Stillness

It is not the sign of a healthy soul to find beauty and superficial things. It's ironic that stillness is rare and fleeting in our busy lives because the world creates an inexhaustible supply of it. Theodore Roosevelt was sent west by his doctor after the death of his mother and wife to lose himself in the bigness of the Dakota Badlands. The Japanese have meant for mental and spiritual issues hardly a week past even when he was president that Roosevelt didn't take a forest bath some kind. How much cleaner would we feel if we took these baths as often as we took showers?