Awakening is a bird entering the room, meditation is the open window.
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Let the Bird Enter
Awakening is a bird entering the room, meditation is the open window.Sometimes, put a few crumbs on the windowsill. Once a year may be enough to bring the bird in.Sometimes, the night gusts force o…Notes & Silence
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in reply to Notes And Silence • • •Beautiful! I've recently been waking before daylight... something I used to do naturally and then in that first hour or two I would simply enjoy the silence of a world where the majority of humanity were still slumbering. I was, usually, awake before the birds and I would breathe in the silence and listen for the first "bird song" to trill through the dark morning air.
I'm enjoying these early morning sojourns however often I find myself awake and receptive to them. 🙏🙃
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in reply to Notes And Silence • • •This experience of receptiveness is such a blessing.
So free and so freeing.
Early morning virginity of mind and senses...
May our being always become less and less 'contaminated' by our daily preoccupations until we become ... one with the One.
Thank you Carita,
I hope you're doing well, my friend.
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