The Silent Life

under the young chestnut tree in our front garden 

our newly opened copper beech is in the left background

"Then a person begins to learn what can never be learned by study or from books, 

that the silent life is the greatest teacher and knows all things. 

It does not only teach, but gives that peace, that joy, that power and harmony which make life beautiful."

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

i found this on the internet!