Listen to It All ©2021 Louise Gallagher I want to listen to it all to the sun rising into the indescribable blue of infinity full of whispering clouds floating within the sweet nothingness of endless sky falling into the story of forever kissing the far-off horizon where it dips down to touch the untold mysteries of the sea diving deep deep into the silence of the womb of mother earth’s divine creation. I want to feel it all deeper than my skin peeled back to reveal my blood flowing red my heart beating wild in love with the ecstasy of being alive in this world of beginnings and endings forever tied up in the stories we tell so that we do not have to listen to the beauty of the silence that yearns to be heard above the cacophony of our human noise. I want to listen without knowing I am listening to anything other than life unfurling in all its mysterious beauty and unfathomable cruelty impregnating the darkness and the light with the wholeness that rises up to embrace me when I listen deeply to it all.
Dare Boldly 
Beautiful
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Thank you David. ❤
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Listening is something so many can’t seem to do
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I not only see, but hear your beautiful words….
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I love the intention of listening in this poem. The topic of listening is one that continues to fascinate me in many ways. Thank you for sharing your words. Wishing you wellness and peace.
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Thank you Ali. In a year long contemplative listening course I’m engaged in, the invitation this week was on deep listening — the poem rose up out of all I hear within that invitation. ❤
Much light and grace to you my friend.
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Louise, What a beautiful commitment to yourself and the world to spend a year learning about listening. I too have been learning through a Compassionate Listening class. Listening to understand another is love in action.
I am so grateful our paths have crossed and recrossed. Peace.
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“Listening to understand another is love in action.”
Thank you.
And I am so grateful too!
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