"Listen to your garden. Clear your mind and let yourself merge with the garden, where the silence that you mechanically fill with thoughts, to-do lists, text messages, and flashing full-color graphics, now ushers you inside of reality where you are one with everything. Hear the electrical activity in your body, the miracle that makes you aware and conscious of yourself and your garden. Hear the history of your garden and the many minds, hearts, and hands that created it. Hear all the people you loved and still love and the sound of their hands as they touched you. Hear the ancient words you will speak to them about your love, your longing, and your regrets. Hear the last words you will whisper as you slip back quietly into the cosmic garden."
From my The Garden: Perennial Reflections on Beginnings and Ends Chapter 52 Listen to Your Garden
