pull anchor
and journey
to that place
where all land
cries yes
and all water
envelops
limitless
possibility.
~ from ON FRIENDSHIP AND DREAMING by Mary Anne Hershey
To meditate is often to move through a land without paths. In the room where the philosopher is meditating there is less light, so you have to open your eyes wider. The same is true inside ourselves—There is less that is obvious or reassuring, so we must open our mind's eye much wider... Mindfulness ...means stopping to make contact with the ever-shifting experience that we are having at the time, and to observe the nature of our relationship to that experience, the nature of our presence at that moment.