I felt that while I was listening to the rain
“All the nobler instincts of our race are born in solitude and suckled by silence. This solitude need be no far away wilderness in Nature; this silence need be no Himalayan peak. You stop for a second as you cross your city square and glance at the belt of Orion.
You lie awake for a while as you rest in your bed and listen to the storm; and behold! From a few simple elements belonging to that mystery which you have been brought up to call ‘Matter,’ there comes over you this reversion, this conversion, this transmutation of spirit.
Thinking of your mood later, you will say to yourself: ‘I felt that while I was listening to the rain.’ Or you will say to yourself: ‘I felt that while I was out in the wind.’ Or you will say to your friend, ‘It was that walk at dusk when I got as far as the river that made me change my mind!’”
— John Cowper Powys, 1933
English novelist and philosopher
Today’s Invitation
Stop for a moment and behold the mystery.
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