The water of the spring is clear, fine like crystal.

       The water of the pond lies still and placid.

       Your mind should be as the water and your

       spirit like the spring.

        The eight truths of Tai Chi

         

    Not in my words but in the silence 

    Not in thoughts but spaces

    And not in my doing but in being 

    That peace joy and love reside

    

Every moment

                       I rarely let the word "No" escape

                                 From my mouth

                       Because it is so plain to my soul

                      That God has shouted,"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

                    To every luminous movement in Existence.

                                                    Havis

                                Silence

                           A day of silence

                     can be a pilgrimage in itself.

                           A day of silence

                          can help you listen 

                            to the soul play

                     It's marvelous lute and drum.

                          Is not most talking 

                  A crazed defence of a crumbling fort?

                          I thought we came here

                          To surrender to silence,

                     To yield to Light and Happiness,

                          To dance within

                  In celebration of Love's Victory!

                                         Hafiz

 

     I slept and dreamt that life was joy, 

     I awoke, and saw that life was Service

     I acted and behold, Service was Joy.

      Tagore 

Riverside dance of insects in the setting sun

             wing beat heron retreat

Welcome all feelings they are coming up to leave. I spent most if my life pushing my feelings down afraid to feel them, not realising that all they wanted was to be acknowledged and released. Allowing them up is freeing me which is a revelation as I had believed keeping them down was the the way to stay "safe". Welcome especially the uncomfortable ones they really want some space to breathe and then they dissolve and melt away leaving a big open space for love to abide.