This picture of a teak tree which used to be tall and offer a shelter for birds for over forty years caused a fright to us. The centre was hollow. It withstood a few storms and adverse soil condition all these years without accidentally falling! For the timber merchant this hollow in the centre was a bog loss as he would not get half the normal price for it!
It speaks a lot about human life and living!
A visitor told me all about his life... after ten years of dubious living, he is looking into his life and feeling frightened to face the emptiness within. He lived a social life of high acceptability but is now in agony for all the cover up exercise he had to do to be in that acceptable role.
The inner life is very core of our existence. Who are we inside is what makes us authentic and not dichotomous.
This is a message to me at this time, when in the seventh decade of life I am still revising my life to live from within.
The life within known to us alone is the source of fullness of life! That is the sacred place of abode for God which makes it holy place of communion!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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