Day 40d: Fully ONE with The Way … (05/24/2019)
“It was a blinding, mineral, shattering silence. We hear nothing but the quiet crunch of stones underfoot; an implacable, definitive silence, like some sort of peaceful yet fully transparent death. The sky was a perfectly detached blue, and we advanced with eyes down, reassuring ourselves that we could flow on and not stumble. The shy seemed cloudless and the path was filled with presence: a silence nothing could sidestep — a calm that fulfilled; a vibrant immobility, tensed like a bow fully drawn. This was the silence of deeper Nature, an expectant and all-encompassing silence. We walk softly therein through shadowed trees still-swathed in traces of the previous night’s blue. Everything whispers quietly yet clearly on such roads — like the silence of walks through the snow, or the silence found only in desert canyons at dawn. All around you nothing seems to move, even though closer examination shows everything to be in constant sway and tremble. Even time itself is frozen solid in silent in such moments. Everything is stopped and unified and thickly padded. There is watching stillness, and we are fully one with The Way.” ~ inspired by Frédéric Gros
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