A Journey of Stillness
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You carry a place within you as a talisman.
A remembrance of where your center is.
The air here is old, the sound still.
It is the place where things
turned upside down, are righted;
things that are backward, turn around.
Truths are revealed beneath a washing rain,
the breathing of the earth. It is where you see
each creature as yourself and where you find
in all things the quality of mercy that brings
them together. It is a place where everything fits.
You know this is so. You have only to live this truth.
Now is the time, there is no other.
You needn’t move to arrive.
Leave the place you have been visiting.
Travel through the stillness,
to your home.
Copyright © Vernon Witmer | Year Posted 2021
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