Dear Sagehawk this piece is so true thankyou...hope you don't mind if I have posted here one of Gideons writings that compliment your post...it is so right what you have posted...to truly know how another feels you listen with your feelings and you in turn hear theirs...

STILLNESS

For the inner peace, for the stillness, seek a tranquil sanctuary in the mind.  The garden that holds the vast arrays of colours and aromas, the solitude that comes from the absence of hustle and bustle.  As one connects to this scene and stands within this ocean of nature allow the mind to reach into the stillness.  Absorb the colours not through the eyes of observation but through the sense of vibration.   Experience the quiet, not from the lack of noise but from the cloak of silence.  Here the inner self connects to the beauties of life and the auras of passiveness.   Know this as you merge and connect to the vibrations of the audibly silent and the visually unseen.   The stillness is gained not from the 3 dimensional senses and observations, for the silent mind is empty of such, it is the internal perceptions that create the still mind.  Then as one merges with the silence, one is one with it, not a separate unit experiencing this totality of calm, but part of it.  Then one is united and becomes part of this chain, a link that is energy connected to natural energy.  From this comes the peace that floods from the mind into the body, this wave of natural harmony and a balance of the mind, body and spirit.  It comes not from what you see but from what you feel.  Your mind is still as you become one with nature.   Your mind then is alive and vibrating with nature.  This peace, this stillness can be achieved by connecting to any stillness and beauty of the natural.  Immersed in the silence of the night as the mind turns upwards towards the universe, it is what is felt rather than what is seen.   Is a blind man not capable of feeling the peace of nature because his eyes cannot observe?  he sees through the inner senses of the mind.   He feels the stillness.  The silent world of the deaf still can experience the stillness of the mind not because of the lack of noise but through the vibrating energy of the natural quietness.    Allow the mind to create within a scene of natural peace and the energy of the mind will shoot forth and connect to the same that exists in reality, it will link and though that wave of vibration that acts like a cable, a line,  the mind will draw into it that essence of peace.   To know the stillness one must close the eyes and open the mind.  

Received by Topaz from Gideon xxx