“As long as I live I’ll hear the birds and the winds and the waterfalls sing. I’ll interpret the rocks and learn the language of flood and storm and avalanche. I’ll make the acquaintance of the wild gardens and the glaciers and get as near to the heart of this world as I could. And so I did. I sauntered about from rock to rock, from grove to grove, from stream to stream, and whenever I met a new plant I would sit down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance, hear what it had to tell. I asked the boulders where they had been and whither they were going, and when night found me, there I camped. I took no more heed to save time or to make haste than did the trees or the stars. This is true freedom, a good, practical sort of immortality.” John Muir
Fred, who writes a lovely blog, Fragments from Floyd, shared this John Muir quote with me yesterday. It resonated deeply so I share it with you.
John Muir set an intention and then he acted on it. As you enter the weekend, I dare you to make the acquaintance of one you do not know: person, plant, animal, or idea. Push past your comfort zone in order to make a new connection. Take time to sit long enough to get a sense of the other, to hear what it has to say. Allow yourself to open to your oneness with all.
Let me know how it goes!
