To Hear

We can close our eyes, but we cannot close our ears. Without ear-lids we are in a sense always open to the world, to its noise and joy, its confusion and its deep cries. Our eardrums cannot but resonate with what is around us. We thrum, whether we like it or not.

Sometimes we drown sounds with other sounds, or we shut ourselves down and refuse to acknowledge what we are hearing. Sometimes we are caught up and lifted out of ourselves because of something we heard...

...M E D I T A T I O N

For a few moments each day,
could we listen for the silence in each sound?
Could we match that silence
with an inner stillness of our own?

Perhaps then we would hear
that which longs to be known...


Taken from Simple ways by Gunilla Norris