A Tourist

 From the Margaret Petersen Tarot, the High Priestess; from the Elemental Dice, Tsunami (Darkness + Water):

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. 

—Morgan Freeman

My first impression of this card was of a deprivation tank - those pods filled with saltwater people float in that minimize external stimuli and create a sense of sensory deprivation. Even the High Priestess seems to have left her externals - the pentacle, the winds, the cup and the sword. She knows if we want to find our luminous inner wisdom, we have to leave behind our tools and what we already know. Most of us, however, would relate to Pico Iyer, "I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness." Tsunami is a good symbol for all the thoughts, sensations and emotions that flood us when we try to still our bodies and minds. Take heart (and keep at it); let the words of Henepola Gunaratana encourage you:

Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill utterly out of control and hopeless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way and you just never noticed. You are also no crazier than everybody else around you. The only real difference is that you have confronted the situation they have not.