Print on earth your love

Take my hand
We will walk
We will only walk
We will enjoy our walk
without thinking of arriving anywhere
Walk peacefully
Walk happily
Our walk is a peace walk
Our walk is a happiness walk

Then we learn
that there is no peace walk
that peace is the walk
that there is no happiness walk
that happiness is the walk
We walk for ourselves
We walk for everyone
always hand in hand

Walk and touch peace every moment
Walk and touch happiness every moment
Each step brings a fresh breeze
Each step makes a flower bloom under our feet
Kiss the Earth with your feet
Print on Earth your love and happiness

Earth will be safe
when we feel in us enough safety

Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names

There's nothing I could say about one of my greatest loves which walking is, and I tried, that says it better than that poem or meditation.

Kiss the earth with your feet
Print on Earth your love and happiness :)

ps. The exams went well enough, I think, and I'm so relieved to have them over. The second year isn't over yet, but the worst is. Flowers are waiting to bloom in my head, bursting with colour where it's been rather monochromatic lately, only the Chinese medicine magic. Which is wonderful too, but oh, the projects, walks, novels and friends I've missed... :) I'm nearly back.

Comments

[linni]

and i'm so happy...to know that i have a friend so close...to 'come home to'.
love you! xx

[Marie]

Beautiful photo, beautiful poem.

I'm glad to hear that the exams went well.
Have a nice week end :)

[Marie]

Beautiful photo, beautiful poem.

I'm glad to hear that the exams went well.
Have a nice week end :)

[kristen]

congratulations honey, you done good. you deserve the best and enjoy your break. xo

[Alice]

Caroline,
Could you advise me a book from TNHanh to read? I've heard so much about him...specially about the walking meditation.

Thank you so much.

Alice Green

[darlene]

how incredibly beautiful ... hope your weekend is beautiful, glad your exams are going so well ... xox

[maddie]

I love love love Thick ~
his walking meditation book is
gorgeous and soooo gentle:)

yay! new blooming beginnings
for caroline:)

(to collect in her pocket and bring
back to us)

[kateri]

Happy end of exams, beautiful blossom :) I hope you enjoyed your weekend with some woolgathering in the woods, or anywhere at all. And I hope you took your camera for us!

I have been dreaming a bit about England lately. It's been too long. For now I, and many others, can visit through your cozy pocket.

This is the perfect imagery for that meditation, I think. Have you ever read about Plum VIllage? WHat an amazing, gentle soul he is.

xo

.

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[Angie]

Lovely poem :-) Glad to hear that the exams went well!

[joan]

I fear any written words would totally detract from the incredible beauty you have conveyed...

Gosh, how I do love you!!!

xoxoxo

[Chloe]

I love the poem, and I absolutely love the photo. Yaaay…exams are over! Hope you are celebrating.

[susanna]

Exams are over - hooray! Now you'll be able to go for long walks, collecting little natural finds for your Spring mantel. :)

[PixieDust]

Walking is magical - as Bilbo (from LOTR) use to say:

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

(((HUGS))),
Love,
Me