The Baobab Room

Download or read book The Baobab Room written by Marilyn Nelson and published by Little Bound Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abba Jacob, a hermit monk, shares with a group of children about how he learned to meditate from a baobab tree which was his boyhood's "best silence teacher." Observing the baobab and the creatures who lived in its trunk and branches taught him about beauty, friendship, generosity, vulnerability, compassion, and the community of living things: lessons he tells us we can learn ourselves by going inward in meditation. Listening to silence may help us to see the connection between the natural world and faith.