Meet Action Ant. Ant was clinging to the rim of a mountain bike as it sped up hill and down dale. Bog, moorland, ruts and stones, spiky bits, great pools of mud - life was stinking rough, literally a vicious circle. Ant began to slither down one of the spokes towards the hub, and lo and behold!, life went round a little more slowly. After a bit Ant managed to come to rest on the central axle and found that here was total stillness, although the wheel was still spinning through the passing scene.

Now at the centre, Action Ant could rest and recollect itself and made the vital discovery that unless the wheel was balanced in the still centre of the hub, it had no direction or power at all. It was useless. Ant also learned to move out to the rim, where the fast track was, and back, as it chose.

Each person has a still centre and needs to go there. People need stillness Unless you learn to be still you die. It is necessary to practise stopping and being still. There are a lot of people living on the rim all the time and they are dead on their feet. Sooner or later they grind to a halt. The world we now live in seduces us into being overactive, brutally noisy, bristling with bustle, and we forget how to be still. The centre is lost.