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Sweet Breathing

Get Into the Forest Again

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The forest is a sanctuary, a temple of contemplation, connection and peace.   Serenity surrounds with a warm cohesiveness – an encasing womb.  Comfort, meditation, life expressing itself, all waiting for our immersion.  Honest and raw.  Inviting and absorbing.  A sweet embrace.

When you can, get into the forest again!

Deer & Woods“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool unlying life will rush in.”

D.H. Lawrence

Soft Stream in the Forest

 

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

-John Muir

Forest Mystery

“We must not always talk in the market-place                                  of what Little Tree, Bright Greenshappens to us in the forest.”

-Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

 

 

“A forest bird never wants a cage.”

-Henrik Ibsen

Raven

“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”

-Thomas Carlyle

Forest Detail

Sweet Breathing

Night Music

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There are places where you can love the night.  Under the big sky, when cares are far away, as calm peace absorbs the day.  Stars to get lost in,  time does not work as when sunshine warms. Alone with yourself.  The dog breathing. The stars and night breathing too.  And the trees. The moon hidden.

Night wonders deep and satisfying.

“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”

-D.H. Lawrence

Full Moon over Tall Trees

“What hath night to do with sleep?”

-John Milton – Paradise Lost

“Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick
I try to stay
just above the surface,
yet I’m already under
and living with the ocean”

-Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
City Beach, Frozen Lake, Mountains with Lights

“Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves.     Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure,             but clean enough for another day’s chalking.”

-Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace

“The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing creeps back into its own nature within the shelter of the dark. Darkness is the ancient womb. Nighttime is womb-time. Our souls come out to play. The darkness absolves everything; the struggle for identity and impression falls away. We rest in the night.”

-John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Here’s to the night and the promise of a new day dawning…

(written at 3am!)

Night Sky with Clouds