Muffling the World in a Garden
Landscape by Johnsen Landscapes & Pools Meet everyone and everything through stillness rather than mental noise. ~ Eckhart Tolle Stillness is a state of mind. And it is also a state of being, best felt outdoors in a natural locale. Marser on Flickr The stillness of a landscape filled with birdsong and babbling water induces a sense of peacefulness, where 'mental noise' may cease and quietude reigns. In this atmosphere, uplifting thoughts begin to take root... Pico Iyer wrote about this beautifully: “I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.” ― Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East Gardens created with a 'clean simplicity' are very special indeed . They are at th