The sun stood behind a soft gray door. I crouched in the dusty rocker, squinting. The leaves around me reminded me of the sunset. The brown ones had gone down. It was like night had come. Others had fallen, showing me such beauty, their light changing. I listened intently to them falling. Sighs and murmurs. Once in another time I commanded them to stop. "Please don't lose what you have shown me," I pleaded. I did not want the brittle brown stillness. But now the sky was coming once again. And the wind reminded me as it tugged at the colors. I held a piece of the tree in my hand, a tiny palette.I touched my finger to the leaf and streaked my face with the colors: orange,  yellow, a burning red, some blue down my nose, some purple across my brow. "I will let this color remind me," I thought. Then I remembered Rama's hand on my shoulder. And his voice telling me that how you see is like a squirrel curled sleeping in a tree, waiting for you to look, to awaken it. "The world starts that way," he said.  "What is this power that I have?" I remembered thinking. He smiled. "It is not yours. It is not something you can ever know."  In Rama's face I saw the same colors I had on my face now. It was the same. This then was my lineage.  Through this leaf into Rama's face and back into mine. Who was looking at this leaf? Maybe it was Rama in the temple. Maybe it is the wind now moving in me here in the rocking chair. Maybe it is the falling sense of the colors that are filling me. Maybe it is the rattling sound of the leaves above. I lean forward. I cannot find that sound. Through the trees the mountain is growing in me. It pops out through the top of my head, perched there like a cap. It too carries all the colors.  And it warms me in the cool air...

An interviewer asked Mother Teresa what she says to God when she prays.
"I don't say anything," she replied. "I just listen."
So the interviewer asked her what God says to her.
"He doesn't say anything," said Mother Teresa. "He just listens."  And before the astonished interviewer could press her further, she added, "And if you don't understand that, I can't explain it to you."