Day 3: Silence and Interdependence

Part 1 of 3 (Listening)

This is the beginning of Day 3 on retreat.

By now, silence had become familiar. But listening… fully listening… that was strangely something new.

This section explores the sounds behind the stillness, and the curious truth that what we hear might not exist without us.

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Day 3: Symphony in Silence

(Listening)

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Listen, and feel the beauty of your separation, the unsayable absence.
There's a moon inside every human being.
Learn to be companions with it.
Give more of your life to this listening.
As brightness is to time, so you are to the one
who talks to the deep ear in your chest.
I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears
when that one steps near and begins to speak.

— Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Listening

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4’33”

The morning air was cool but softer than the days before. No frost, just the crisp stillness of early light stretching over the retreat grounds. A small but certain shift in the weather.

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