“Seek solitude.  Listen to the silence.  It will teach you.”*

“Oh do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.”**

Each of us has our personal koans, words and ideas and images we have collected through our lives which speak to us most loudly in the silent moments and places.

Making it possible to touch the wonder or promise of what is but cannot be seen, they remind us there is another world, more than this one.

Pulling us from the over-trodden path, away from the scant world that has become so many heuristics, they bring us to ‘the things others miss.’^

(*Frances Roberts, quoted in the Northumbria Community‘s Morning Prayer.)
(**T. S. Eliot, quote in Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project.)
(^From Rohit Bhargava’s Non-Obvious.)