You never know where you’ll find inner peace.
When I was living in the Dominican Republic, there was a friend’s farm I loved to visit. It had nothing to do with picking fresh fruit or getting freshly laid eggs, but rather to use the boulder located inside the property lines, as a huge chair. The minute I sat on its dirty surface, the world’s hustle and bustle faded away into the background. I didn’t know it at the time, but I had found serenity. Oxford Languages website - https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/ - defines serenity, as the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled.
"Why do you like to sit on that boulder so much?" asked one of the farmhands one day. “Because the world goes quiet,” was my reply. “So quiet that I can listen to my heartbeat. So quiet that it displeases my problems and they go away. So quiet that I can have a conversation with my soul. So quiet that my heart can speak freely with Earth’s heart.” He gave me a look that I interpreted as: “Whatever floats your boat, man.”
20 minutes on top of the boulder of silence was all I needed to power wash the negative energy from my soul and replace it with inner peace.
There have been many times after I relocated to the United States when I could’ve used the boulder of silence. Maybe I should start looking for an American-based boulder of silence. And you know what? It just occurred to me that a boulder of silence doesn’t always have to look like a boulder of silence. Maybe it could look like a bench in a quiet corner of a park, a nice place on the beach, a study room in the public library, a rooftop, a fishing spot in the docks, and a place of worship, to name a few.☼
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Alex Guerrero is a content creator who lives in Lawrence, KS. He’s very vocal in his displeasure over pineapple pizza. Chocolate, on the other hand, makes everything better!
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