The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
Baba Ram Dass
On a dark, moonlit night most of natures's floral offerings excuse themselves from the diligence of the day and nod off to silent slumber, releasing their daytime rigors and replenishing their energies in anticipation of the first break of dawn. But there are several verdant beauties that choose to blossom instead in the velvety night, stirring under the exquisite luminescence of Mother Moon.
Casablanca Lilies, Moonflowers, Cereus and Night Blooming Jasmine are some of these nocturnal angels. And, it seems, in choosing the blackness of the evening boulevard, they display to us a special wisdom in their enterprise. These moonflowers, cereus, lilies, these jasmine choose the quiet of the night as their daily point of departure.
They do not engage with the clamor and bustle of the day. Rather, they await the peace and tranquility of the night tide and, in this gentle ambiance, they quietly attune themselves to the senses and sounds surrounding them...
the whisper of the wind,
the hooting owl,
flitting fireflies,
wandering spiders.
They feel the majesty of the moon sailing in the sky.
Intuitively, they embrace the knowledge and wisdom which are crossing their paths rather than attempting to dispense it themselves.
As always, Nature continues to gift us with metaphors of a life well-lived. Is there a "night blooming jasmine" in your heart waiting to guide you to the beauty and knowledge and wisdom you have been too busy to see?
The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.
Marie Helena
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