Discovering the ocean within — discovering silence.
(The image above is from a notecard Heron Dance offered twenty years ago. Let me know (rod@herondance.org) if you’d like it republished.)
Your inner world guides you without you knowing it. Our thought patterns determine the quality of our lives. That inner process works at the depth of each of us carrying the meaning that has been trying to establish itself in our existence. It embodies the potential of who we are or can be when our life expresses itself as a whole.
Silence helps. A sign of balance is a comfort with silence, both silence within, and silence without.
The ocean within you is the universal reality or essence that dwells within all beings... Discovering this ocean is vitally important for the discovery of balance because it provides a place of peace for you to return home to despite all the chaos of the day.
- Joel and Michelle Levey, Living in Balance
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Are you comfortable with silence? Does silence play a large enough role in your life?
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Below, a downloadable page you can use for your own journaling. To download visit here or clicking on the image below. It is 8.5 x 11 inches in size so easy to print out.
Below that, a two-page spread from the upcoming Heron Dance journal, A Life Examined.
More on the thinking behind the journals here.
Recent Projects And Random Thoughts
September 2nd, Heron Dance will launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund the printing of the five year quarterly journals described here. There will be a number of premiums associated with this campaign including signed first editions of our latest book, Nurturing the Song Within, art prints and other bonuses. You can keep up-to-date on the launch on Kickstarter here.
The new art journal, Nurturing The Song Within, explores the inner work that underlies creative work, and creating a unique life.
If you are not subscribed to either or both Heron Dance Art Studio Substacks, you can do that here:
Nurturing the Song Within, a chronicle of one artist’s efforts to evolve.
A Pause for Beauty, a celebration of the beauty and mystery of the natural world.
