Learning to Become Quieter

My mind is gradually learning to become quieter, so that it can hear and remember words and songs that are good and beautiful to hear and keep inside me. My mind is slowly learning to become slower, to the best of paces, so that it may lithely take wing when it is called from the tree branch where it is at rest.

Someday, my mind will become completely quiet, this mind that I have now, and that will be death - but I believe that I will be joined with the eternal aliveness that is everything.

The art of contemplation is to discover one's own soul within that greater soul which never dies, and which silences everything that doesn't last or matter, while giving song and voice and form to everything that does.

Amber MV
(A journal entry of mine from October 21st, 2022)