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Silence
Thursday 2nd July 2015 @ 12:48 pm

I am about to go into a few days of silence at a local retreat centre  … for the first time.

 

I will confess I know not what it will be like. I desire to know the difference between silence and stillness, between prayerful and mindful, between boredom and rest, between revelation and intuition.

 

I hope, I will find the time too short.

I hope, that I will feel a little more human.

I hope that I will learn and experience more than I have learned and experienced thus far …

 

but my goodness, it is so hard to leave a messy ‘undone list’ … even for a few days.

 

Somewhere within me lies WB Yeats on Innisfree … I leave it with you.

 

 

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;

Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,

And live alone in the bee–loud glade.

 

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight’s all a–glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

 

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

 


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