"Solitude is a silent storm that breaks
down all our dead branches;
Yet it sends our living roots deeper into
the living heart of the living earth." -?

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A story is like water that you heat for your bath.
It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet, and it cleans you!

Very few can sit down in the middle of the fire itself like a salamander or Abraham. We need intermediaries.

A feeling of fullness comes, but usually it takes some bread to bring it.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in the garden to know it.

The body itself is a screen to shield and partially reveal the light that's blazing inside your presence.
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden.
Study them, and enjoy the being washed
With a secret we sometimes know,
and then not.

-Rumi