InnerLandscapes: Hiking Retreats for Inner Explorers

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The view from the Sea to Sky retreat centre near Whistler, BC. Sally and I are looking forward to the hiking retreat we will be leading there: Life Transitions: Winter, Clarity, and Renewal

Cathy AJ Hardy | Potential in Transitions Potential in Transitions Posted October 8, 2014 · Add Comment Potential in Transitions…… I went to yoga last night. Filled with some big questions I am facing about my life, my future. And as we went through our yoga poses, our teacher invited us to not move quickly from pose to pose, but to ENJOY T…

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Fall 2014 Newsletter: InnerLandscapes: Hiking Retreats for Inner Explorers

Fall 2014 Newsletter: InnerLandscapes: Hiking Retreats for Inner Explorers Hello Everyone, Welcome to fall, 'the season that carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons." (Jim Bishop). That gold comes in outer forms that are easy to see: the blaze of a stand of maples, the bustle of outdoor markets, and the rich palette of colours that suddenly blankets the…

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Why Walking Helps Us Think - The New Yorker Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

The Quest for Quiet in A Noisy World How noise pollution affects the body and spirit.

"Silence is important because it provides direction. What waits for you in silence is the insight and direction you need to determine the next step in your quest. Silence is the source of knowing what to do, or what not to do . . .

SANTIAGO

The road seen, then not seen, the hillside
hiding then revealing the way you should take,
the road dropping away from you as if leaving you
to walk on thin air, then catching you, holding you up,
when you thought you would fall…

Excerpt from “Santiago”
From Pilgrim: Poems by David Whyte
©2012 David Whyte

PHOTO © David Whyte: July 2014
Pilgrim Path.
Mameen, Conamara, Ireland.

THE POET

moves forward
to that edge
but lives sensibly,

through the senses
not because of them.

Above all he watches
where he steps.,
as if it matters
where he leaves his prints.

The senses overwhelm him
at his peril.

Though he must be taken
by something greater.
That is what he uses
senses to perceive.

The poet’s

task is simple.
He looks for quiet,
and speaks to what
he finds there.

But like Blake
in his engraving shop,
works with the fierceness
of acid on metal.

Melting apparent
surfaces away
and displaying the infinite
which was hid.

In the early morning he listens
by the window,
makes
the first utterance
and tries to overhear
himself
say something,
from which
in that silence,
it is impossible to retreat.

from ‘THE POET’
From RIVER FLOW: New and Selected Poems
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press

Photo: © David Whyte. Morning Writing Table. Galle. Sri Lanka.
June 2014.