Into The Silence... x

I can't quite believe it - I'm sitting in my bed (my favourite place to write at the moment), the window is open, the brightest blue sky and sunshine are streaming through, and the world is full of birdsong...

Spring is definitely in the air, I can feel it in my bones.

A car zooms past... a pony leans over my garden fence and I can hear it munching on grass... and then another car... a huge horse clip clops by... and the birds keep singing and singing and singing. And if I don't label the sounds or the images but just listen to them and watch them and let them be as they are... a rich and delicious symphony of Life pours effortlessly through my window.

Then if I listen even more carefully... between all the sounds arising... there's this amazing silence... this deep, continuous hum of peace... this unchanging lullaby of bliss... like a clear blue sky in which the birds appear...

...like the space in which you and I emerge in all our human glory...

And when I let the silence move through me... it's like I'm not doing the living anymore... it's like I'm being lived by this great well of silence... like every cell inside of me is living as this peaceful hum of bliss...

And from here I'm free to participate in the beautiful dance of life...

From here all the stories I ever need to write will arise.

Listen to your world for 5 minutes... to all the little drips and clatters and clops that appear... listen to the silence in between and let the noise exist in the midst of it... then let me know how you feel. xxx