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Interflow

Photos by George Angus

  

Welsh poet John O'Donohue spoke of the earthern wisdom possessed by the animals we share this earth with. 

“The animals are more ancient than us. They enjoy a seamless presence—a lyrical unity with the earth. Animals live outside in the wind, in the waters, in the mountains, and in the clay. The knowing of the earth is in them.” 

When we become more sensitive and attuned to them, through presence, awareness, listening and looking, by deflating our self-importance, we enter into their state of knowing. O'Donohue referred to this state of shared awareness and being as “interflow”.

What I do know is that we are mostly missing out through the lives we live.


George



 

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