Hi Tom 🙂
sending greetings to you both in Lomec, and a lovely memory…
I keep turning it over in my head, what to write and how to sum it up so that it doesn’t sound weird even to me 🙂
A dark retreat is a beautiful process
A beautiful process, no doubt about it. We each go on a dark retreat for our own thing… I left feeling cleansed, softened, lighter and reconnected with the awareness of myself. I consider that reconnection the greatest thing it could have given me, and since then the connection has stayed with me and guides me through everyday life. Of course, I get to watch myself disconnecting, and at that moment I fall into some kind of bad mood or depression, but when I notice it and connect back to “that place” inside me, I feel that the real me is there (and the real all of us).
I once read a line saying “we think God watches us from above, but he watches us from within”… I feel that after my time in the sanctuary I am closer… and I am humbly grateful for it.
A safe dark retreat
As for the practical side, I really appreciated how you worked out the locking of the sanctuaries – brilliant. I felt safe knowing I was locked in, but that you could get in from the other side at any time.
Next time I would bring my own duvet to sleep under – the thin one wasn’t enough for me, I would probably have had to turn the heating right up, and I don’t feel too good with that either. Lenka saved me by lending me another blanket, thank you!
In the mornings I missed being able to have a cup of hot tea – I’d have given almost anything for one 🙂 For me it would be better to get a thermos of tea in the morning, then I could enjoy lovely tea all through the day; I don’t drink at night any more. By morning the tea was only lukewarm and a bit sour. Or next time I’d bring a small electric kettle and some tea for the mornings.
Tom, thank you so much for providing such a beautiful space and for your care – I can’t even put it into words…
Sending all good wishes to all of you, and yes, that eternal light – that’s spot on 🙂
Take care,
Lída
