From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can make our minds
so like still water
that beings gather about us
that they may see,
it may be, their own images,
and live for a moment with a clearer,
perhaps even with a fiercer life
because of our quiet,
our silence.