Wednesday, June 26, 2019

long before we ever tried




To meditate
is to realize
what has always
been meditating,
the vast and empty sky
in which the clouds
of meditating
and not meditating
appear and
then disappear.

To meditate
is to realize this sky
that kissed the clouds
long before
we ever tried
to love what is.





John Astin
Photo:  Peter Bowers