‘Let’s walk home’, I suggested over breakfast…’We could walk all the way back along the river’
It took us twenty five minutes to journey there on the tube…
And all day to walk back; with a stop for lunch!
The river route turned out to be fifteen miles; We started on the South Bank in Richmond and enjoyed witnessing a magical unfolding of new uncharted territories.
‘I love being by water’, I said to Anadi as we walked; ‘whether its the sea or the river…
I just love it’
‘What do you love?’ he asked
We walked in silence for awhile – I realised that I just love it, and at first had no words as to the ‘why’
Other than ‘I just do!’
But after awhile I said to him, ‘I love the expanse, the stillness and the movement; the reflection of the whole in the individual swirls and ripples…
When it is the sea I love that I can’t see the end and so I glimpse eternity
And I love the experience that we are ‘the whole ocean in one drop’
We are that ocean – we are that river; we are the whole; we are all that is
And the water reflects that as I walk beside it.
‘Why do you love it…’? I asked him
‘I love the expansiveness too’, Anadi replied; ‘and the freedom and that it changes form; it can be solid when it is ice and then it has movement and is fluid…’
At Barnes we crossed the river to the north side… We knew there were many pubs along the way! And so after enjoying a delicious lunch stop in ‘The Dove’ on we went…
The rhythm of walking silent, peaceful. Time seeming so arbitrary, as to not exist. The hours passed and yet there was no concept of the hours; as we walked and talked and walked in silence too.
An inner journey as each moment is; every experience an inner one reflected in our individual creations; this life.
We an expression of consciousness; and our minds the incredible receivers of our inner divine creative force
So within, so without…
