One Apple A Day #555 - eternity
"Within you is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself." - Hermann Hesse
When I breathe into stillness. When I'm carried away by a song. When I'm staring at something beautiful. When I'm walking in silence along a river. When I'm completely immersed in a conversation.
In all those moments, time dissolves. There is no before and after. Just me being me in the present moment. That is the experience of eternity.
There are concepts for which we don't have words. Concepts like eternity or infinity. Words are a product of our mind, and our mind thinks in forms and shapes. Eternity can't be explained. It can only be experienced. Directly, or through art.
MINUTE ETERNITY
I remember needing nothing
but what I could smell and touch and hear in the minute
eternity between sounds or the long shimmer of the barley's
green-gold dance on the wind, my life a spreading ring
of quiet, like the trout's brief in-breath
at the surface of a river, like the slow
outward movement of a raindrop spreading on a still lake…
By David Whyte - From 'Death Waits': in 'River Flow: New and Selected Poems'