I was in Leb for a brief visit today, but long enough to see a small flock of 9 robins feasting on bittersweet near the CCB, and I also heard a Carolina wren singing,
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It's not
by chance that the dark center of human eye, the pupil, is actually an
empty hole through which the world becomes known to us. Likewise, in a
spiritual sense, the I is the empty center through which we see
everything. It's revealing that such a threshold is called the pupil,
for it is only when we are emptied of all noise and dreams of ego that
we become truly teachable. -Mark Nepo