By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart | © 2017 by The Golden Sufi Center | Advance Copy | publication date: May 1, 2017

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. – Thich Nhat Hanh

Walking

I have always loved to walk early in the morning, to sense the Earth at the beginning of a day, to feel Her pulse, Her beauty and magic, before thoughts and demands clutter my day. Waking early, I have a hot cup of tea, meditate in silence, and then, as soon as the first light comes, I walk down the hill to the road beside the wetlands where I live. Sometimes the frost is sparkling around me, sometimes the water is clouded with fog, an egret appearing white against the reeds. This is another time of silent meditation, walking, breathing, feeling the Earth.