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If a leaf fell in the forest and you were perfectly silent…would you hear it?

As Jalaluddin Rumi said: Why are you so afraid of silence? Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void, a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.             Silence is … Continue reading

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Pilgrimage to the sea

Earlier this month I read Joan Anderson’s book “A Year by the Sea:  Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman”.  This is the story of a woman searching for herself, attempting to connect again to her deepest knowings.  She leaves her husband … Continue reading

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Listening to a knock-knock-knock on my inner door

Sometimes deep inside a knock comes.  Persistently it knocks.  Steadily it calls.  “Come and answer the door,” it says, “and do not delay.” You walk out, perhaps onto a sandy beach, and listen quietly in the dawn for your inner … Continue reading

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