A PLACE YOU CAN GO

Photograph by Michel Poisson
There is a place you can go

where you are quiet,

a place of water and the light

on the water. Trees are there,

leaves, and the light

on leaves moved by air.

Birds, singing, move

among leaves, in leaf shadow.

After many years you have come

to no thought of these,

but they are themselves

your thoughts. There seems to be

little to say, less and less.

Here they are. Here you are.

Here as though gone.

None of us stays, but in the hush

where each leaf in the speech

of leaves is sufficient syllable

the passing light finds out

surpassing freedom of its way.

- Wendell Berry

(I found this poem at this beautiful blog)

Digital print by Fiona Watson

Digital Print by Fiona Watson

Valley of the Ghosts by sasanester

Jon Roman

Sue Lawty's pebble mandala. Read about the Beach Project here .

Photo by Jim Champion

"Be secluded in your secret heart-house,

that bowl of silence... " - Rumi

I found this photo on Tumblr. Photographer unknown.

"There is a silent self within us whose presence is disturbing precisely because it is so silent: it can't be spoken. It has to remain silent. To articulate it, to verbalize it, is to tamper with it, and in some ways to destroy it ". - Thomas Merton

David Severn