Quote by Eckhart Tolle on Space
Photo courtesy of Janet Trickett Merryman.
When you are aware of space,
you are not really aware of anything, except awareness itself–
the inner space of consciousness.
Through you, the universe is becoming aware of itself.Source: A New Earth: Finding Who You Truly Are by Eckhart Tolle
I can hear the silence because the song bird sings
Source: Nick Grimshawe
The walk started in turmoil. Felix decided to act up getting into the car which annoyed me and certainly took me out of the moment which annoyed me even more. With all my reading I figured I should be doing better than that.
Then as the walk began with thoughts churning dragging me into the past or creating disorder and discord as I strolled along. This unsettled me even more.
If I don’t reach that quiet place within myself during the week I count on these walks to put me back in touch with source.
On our walks we long ago established a little tradition. At the half way point where we turn around to come back is a large one foot by one foot wood post. Everyone on the walk has touch the post before they can start back, including the dogs. They just rub up against it. The idea at first was to make sure no one cheated and turned back to soon. Now getting to the half way point is easy and the little game unnecessary. However, the tradition lingers on.
Today as we approached the post I still battle those pesky thoughts looping through my over busy brain. With out I reach out and touch the post. What happen next rooted me to the spot.
As my palm patted that large post, silence rushed into me and touched the silence waiting within me. I felt like I had touched a divining rod that acted as a conduit for the energy overpowering me.
The silence on the outside rushed in to touch the silence inside. When these two separate solitudes joined, they melded into a single, steady powerful and profound silence. I remember looking up toward the ridgeline closing my eyes and taking in a deep rush of air. My mind went dead quiet. The silence made me aware of a vastness space stretching out into eternity. I relaxed at last.
Finally I let go of the post, turned, and started back, aware of this duality of silence from a single source.
In the silence I became hyper-aware of sound. The small single engine plane overhead, the soft whir of distant traffic, and the songs of birds. Instead of robbing me of the silence the sounds deepened and broadened the space around me as if some how the sound gave definition to the silence.
Then the blackbirds began to warble back and forth melting time into a large puddle of water.
All the way back to the car I remind conscious of the connection of “it” to “me”.
Even now, hours later I am aware of that solitude: I can just reach out from here and touch it with myself.
Walk in quiet places: because you can.
This Wednesday, find a quiet place, make yourself comfortable, then close your eyes and recall a moment when you felt truly at peace. Write about that place in your Journal.
Nick
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