Recieving Time

Receiving Time: explorations of the inner and outer landscapes

Recieving Time

by Molly McCahan

“…I think it makes a huge difference, when you wake in the morning and come out of your house, whether you believe you’re walking into dead geographical location, which is used to get to a destination, or whether you’re emerging out into a landscape that is just as much if not more alive as you, but in a totally different form, and if you go towards it with an open heart and a real, watchful reverence, that you will be absolutely amazed at what it will reveal to you…What amazes me about landscape, landscape recalls you into a mindful mode of stillness, solitude, and silence, where you can truly receive time.”

(“John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty”)

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Recieving Time

by Molly McCahan