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April 17, 2018 By W. Lee Baker

What is that sound?

Sounds surround us, movement is constant, and scents grow and move on the air as blooms burst open. On a main street sirens intrude unexpectedly, screaming “Get out of my way”. Quieter places also make themselves heard, calling for us to come and enjoy.

Have you ever been where the only sound was the wind whistling past your ear? That is where you are really on your own, with nothing else pulling at you to listen.

Oh, to be where the forest whispers, and the animals living there move about and stir the forest floor. Their steps marked by the crinkle and hiss of dry leaves underfoot. We humans can sing, to change the heart and bring on the desire to dance. The sounds we make can give us our stories told as songs, feelings and ideas. How wondrous that is.

In the places we move and the people we meet, our lives appear and only then have a chance to grow. Wherever your footsteps take you will be the lead of life that blooms, and fills your insides with the experiences that become the memories which will provide the fertile soil where ideas grow. With open eyes and ears tuned to listen, then the skies open.

Believe as you will, something is waiting out there as the next chapter of life. Life ready to stir in the elements from the endless possibilities yet unborn. That will become the story of your life. Experiences can blossom into higher knowledge beyond fear and pain or be the ties that bind us because of the seared memories.

The only way is forward. Everything else in Creation is working to carve out a place of its own place in the sunshine. Movement is the eternal clockwork of our living world. Move in life. It will open with the grace available to each living thing. Learn the sound of your own sincere voice. Sing and dance with this moment in life. It will be your pleasure.

Filed Under: Meditations, Noticing in everyday life

MEDITATIONS

We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the moon and stars, which have given to us their light when the sun was gone. We return thanks to the sun, that has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye. Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit, in whom is embodied all goodness, and who directs all things for the good of her children.

Native American

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

Rumi

Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it’s silence, it’s beauty, it’s humility. Stay aligned to that.

Stuart Wilde ~ 1946

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night: to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring… these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

John Burroughs

Everything is beautiful in its own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter’s day. And everybody’s beautiful in their own way. Under God’s heaven, the world’s gonna find the way. There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older,it’s time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Ray Stevens - 1939

When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the other hand, in autumn, one leaf falls down and another leaf falls down. The beautiful plants become as if dead and we do not feel very happy. Why? I think it is because deep down our human nature likes construction, and does not like destruction.

Dalai Lama

If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

Hermann Hesse

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FROM W LEE BAKER

I am a testimonial to waking up from the deep sleep buried in clouds of doubt. I wandered lost until I found my way into this life, and I am ever thankful and reverent of the mistakes and losses along the way. Now I hope to offer inspiration to others who find this story.

– W Lee Baker

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