“Out here, no one is talking. Peace of mind is tangible.
A place you can feel your heart take each beat.
A place you can hear your soul sing your song.Sometimes in the absence of noise, we find answers.
In solitude there is healing.”-Paula Krugerud
“When the mind is festering with trouble or the heart torn, we can find healing among the silence of mountains or fields, or listen to the simple, steadying rhythm of waves. The slowness and stillness gradually takes us over. Our breathing deepens and our hearts calm and our hungers relent. When serenity is restored, new perspectives open to us and difficulty can begin to seem like an invitation to new growth.This invitation to friendship with nature does of course entail a willingness to be alone out there. Yet this aloneness is anything but lonely. Solitude gradually clarifies the heart until a true tranquility is reached. The irony is that at the heart of that aloneness you feel intimately connected with the world. Indeed, the beauty of nature is often the wisest balm for it gently relieves and releases the caged mind.”-John O’Donohue(from Beauty: The Invisible Embrace)
We woke to a soft dusting of snow on the ground here in northwest Montana… and the sweetest flakes falling softly. It felt like a benediction. A cleansing. A layering of love. A pure foundation for the solitude and silence that will prevail today. Time for reflection of all those precious blessings of beauty, love, nature’s embrace and spring unfolding that surround us so abundantly in these uncertain times.
I feel their strength and honor the gifts.
I will take in no media today to better deepen into this…
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy.”
-C.S. Lewis
“Solitude is for me a font of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”
-Carl Jung
May our world and the earth be healed.
