How to be Wide-Open to Receive

Did you know that if you are quiet and still enough, you can hear the sound of leaves falling from the trees?

That’s what I heard as I lay on alounge chair in the corner of my back patio last Sunday afternoon. I closed my eyes, restedmy cheekon my two hands, curled my legs into my chest, and listened to the leaves fall.

As the warm breeze blew the leaves light as petals from the tree at the edge of the street, I heard their gentle tap onthe roof,the whisk as they brushed thewindow panes, the...