"For those brave enough to trust something deeper, to listen to the Earth and the old ways,
the pandemic presents an opportunity to turn away from the clutter
and distractions of our outer life, to the deeper roots of our being.
Here our soul nourishes us, here we can be replenished,
and here we can help replenish our world.
The Earth is dying from the ravages of our culture’s materialistic nightmare
that pollutes the air we breathe and the water we drink
and starves our soul of its natural connection to the sacred.
In the silence, we can drink deeply of the waters of life that are still pure;
we can commune with the primal forces of nature;
we can return to what is sacred and essential to our life and to the life of the Earth."
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee ~ From: The Natural Order Of Things
To deliver oneself up,
to hand oneself over,
entrust oneself completely to the silence
of a wide landscape of woods and hills,
or sea and desert; to sit still while
the sun comes up over the land
and fills its silences with light.
...few are willing to belong completely
to such silence, to let it soak into their bones,
to breathe nothing but silence, to feed
on silence, and to turn the very substance of their life
into a living and vigilant silence.
Thomas Merton ~ from Thoughts in Solitude
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