The silence of the mind......

Today,  I walked in a rose garden

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Today,  I felt the sun on my back

Today,  I felt the breeze on my face

Today,  I watched a spider spin his web

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Today,  I discovered I don't really like peanut butter rolls

Today,  I saw  new buds on all the trees

 and we are only into day 4 of Winter

Today,  I smelt the last of the roses

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Today,  I sat and walked with six others and

Today

I

spoke

not

a

 word

Today, I listened to the silence

Today, I went on a mindfulness retreat

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in  order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary 

-Peter Minard

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

-William Penn

My beautiful and loving friends

 said I would be expelled before we hit 10 a.m.!

Bless them, I loved every minute

Goodnight