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Silent Wilderness Retreat

October 4, 2003
10:30 am - 4:30 pm
FWMC Treehouse

We will meet at the Treehouse Platform for a day of silence, together or alone. You may hang out in the Treehouse, wander the trails, hike up to Crescent Rock for an inspiring Appalachian vista. Spend your time in meditation, or journaling, or reading, or silent exploration and opening up. It's your retreat.

We will begin at 10:30 a.m. with collective silence, break, then gather again for a shared bag lunch at 1:00 pm. Always in silence. The afternoon will be open for more of the same, meeting again at 4:00 in the Treehouse for a quiet culmination.

As the ancient psalm says: "Be still and know that I am God."

A modest donation to the Center is always welcome.

This event is for: Those who find collective silence to be profound, relaxing, inspiring, healing, an antidote to cacaphonic hustle-bustle, or just plain enjoyable. And to those who are not so sure, but would like to give it a try (maybe bringing along a favorite book or a personal journal with numerous blank pages thirsty for thoughts).

Directions: Call or e-mail Sheila for directions.

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And, if we are unwilling to practice the gift of contemplation and find time for solitude, we miss so much along the way. Admiral Byrd's journal is filled with the fruits that silence brings:

I took my daily walk at 4 p.m. today in -89 degrees of frost ... I paused to listen to the silence ... The day was dying, the night being born -- but with great peace. Here were imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it! That was what came out of the silence -- a gentle rhythm, the strain of a perfect chord, the music of the spheres...

~ Admiral Richard E. Byrd
 

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