when the world around seems too much

look inwards

slightly

for there is solitude within the crush

of noisy thoughts, emotions and unresolved imaginings

whatever pain that you know

look beneath it

for there is solitude

for what is solitude?

it is the communication of all your doubts with your inner love

your wisdom with your breath

your worries fears and anguish soothed

by listening to your inner voice

which in solitude

speaks

The natural world dwells deep with your emotional and psychological nature, within your body, intellect, instinctual awareness and all your habits, for every tree that is wantonly cut down in the wild so is a little part of us all. Diminish nature and its resources and so mankind is diminished. Nature is the underlying foundation of all our aspects of our well being, you and nature are the same experience.

As your life changes, day by day, hour by hour, month by year, what do you notice or see in the experiences that make your life? are there shadows of the past feeling as it they were having hold of you right now? Or are you thinking of the future, a better place to be than where you are now? Look and breathe in the patterns of your life, how have the moments being coloured by your relationship to the life experiences thast you have had? Are you part of a community, jammed in a crowd, on an emotionally powered desert island? As your life changes, where will you be?

there is a

path to your

Self

it is not straight

but winding

for it occupies

acts of randomness

and a myriad of thoughts

but if you look

gently but constantly

you can see the path

its edges covered by the

overgrowth of life

and then once you know it is there

it clears and shows you the way

the nature of nature

is to express itself

as information

fragments spliced by time,

cooked by space

offered up for its own delight

the nature of nature

is to be

no  matter

where you are

no matter where you think you are

no matter what you believe yourself to believe

in matter

in thought

which is matter

there is

presence

in

all things

the ever knowing

You

meaning

is that

force you give

that which you hope

to understand

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examine what you know

excise what you understand

shred what you believe

then when done

you will have a

treasure

Can you hear the voices calling,

singing out their songs?

Some say they are laments,

others, rhymes for dancing

in a throng

of jostling people

who want to be a tribe

or entity

Can you hear the birdsong calling

or the whale’s flute?

can your hear the baby’s heartbeat

or the growing of a shoot

pushing through the earth in order to just

grow

can you hear?

can you hear?

listening

helps all things

be as they should be

and that is

the mystery

can you hear?

when

seasons

change

so do you

when seasons fade from memory and winters become the same

so do you

spring, summer

autumnal fall

leaves are forgotten

winds water and rain too

when seasons change

so do you

forgetting seasons

forgetting you

season of forgetfulness

lasting years

when seasons change

so does man

earth

and

cadence