by Charles Burchfield
Thanks to our Friend, David, for sending us this beautiful art
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"Peace
does not come from outside you.
Peace
comes from within.
If you lie in a field of wild flowers,
watching the clouds drift, and feel peaceful,
that peace
isn’t the quiet of the poppies dreaming.
That peace is you,
with you
wherever you go."
~ Quiet Lotus
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“The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
~Wendell Berry
(The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry"
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Reading these two quotes together
They seem to disagree
But I think Wendell found in the wild
A time of stillness
A place and time for mindful meditation
Where he could let go anxieties - let go everything
And feel that peace
That was there inside him all the time