With Covered Eyes

"You cannot find peace

by avoiding life."

Virginia Woolf

What if we were like children and could simply cover our eyes to hide what we no longer wanted to see, like poverty, prejudice or war?  If there were someone we did not want to face politically or intimately, could we innocently close our eyes believing the scenario would fade away?

There is something blissful about being a child with covered eyes.  The world retracts like waves being pulled back into the sea.  The quiet presence of self grows larger and it seems as though we are looking completely within, falling away from the outside of all things.  We find comfort in this stillness, like it is our home and a safe place to be.

We can find this same experience through contemplation, prayer or meditation.  This silent retreat, no matter how we enter it, is a reprieve from all that draws too dangerously close.  We find our selves wrapped in a warm sensation naming it God, Divine, or the Unseen.

The simplicity found in childlike actions can restore our heavy hearts, calm our scattered mind, and spiritually uplift us.  We can modestly withdraw without calling attention to ourselves.  Without any elaboration, one can be in pause behind the covered eyes.