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.