"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
-Jack Kornfield

10 February 2009

Songlines


"A moment begins with nothing.

A man or a woman walks, and from emptiness emerges the songs,

the musical embodiment of reality,

the cosmic melodies that give the world its character....

the world as it exists is perfect, though constantly in the process of being formed.

The land is encoded with everything that has ever been,

everything that ever will be,

in every dimension of reality.

To walk the land is to engage in a constant act of affirmation,

an endless dance of creation."


-Wade Davis,

on the Aboriginal Songlines