Month: November 2023

The quiet of the mountain top
is not the muteness
of having been taken from the world,

but the quiet of all of it, gathered:
the embrace of sky and horizon,
the murmuring of cities and rivers below,

the world and all its little stories,
the ages and generations,
the wars and tender moments,

all you look down on,
seen and unseen,
and what you have left

and your climbing,
all gathered together
in the quietness of this gaze,

the gaze of God,
who does not think or judge,
but loves without words.

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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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The quiet of the desert
isn’t harsh or punishing,
not lonely or lacking, but pure,

the quiet of everything to be said
having been said
and now there is the sitting with it,

the quiet of stones and their stories,
and even the storms, who bear witness
without words, and then pass,

the quiet when all has been sanded away,
the removal of everything but this,
and the presence that fills the silence

with silence, the stillness of this,
and its being enough,
as are you.

__________________
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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