Nurturing Thursday - Quiet

I spend most of my days quietly, surrounded by silence and birdsong... It's how I focus and get things done. Even when we lived in noisy towns (next to the freeway in Pasadena, next to the railway track in Grantham), I learnt to block out the noise, to drop down into a small. quiet place inside. It's how I cope in an increasingly noisy world.


And just this morning, I read this:
Silence attracts meaning... If you stay quiet for a whole hour, it will be hard not to write a poem. In silence everything becomes real. Everything deserves a poem. 
Silence discloses the fullness of now, instead of always waiting and wanting more

Sharing with Becca.

5 comments:

  1. Beautiful post...

    Beautiful illustration...

    Beautiful quotes...

    Not only Beautiful, but Wise, too.

    Thank you.

    Luna Crone

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  2. Have you ever read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot? There is a YouTube video of Eliot reading the poem aloud. I highly recommend it.

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  3. What a lovely post -- just reading it quiets the mind considerably. :)

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  4. This is so true. It's how my recent poem came to be written—from silence.

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  5. Beautiful post, Claire! From your description -- you are in an on-going meditation!
    Thank you for sharing. It is nice to have you back!

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