Untouched

'There's a whole commotion going on inside us.' 

'That's bad?'

'It's bad if we want to know what's going on outside ourselves.' 

'Don't we have eyes & ears for that?' 

'They're okay most of the time. But sometimes they get in the way. The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.'

Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli