Pāhonoa te oro

The night continues… unchanged… soft… and endless… Nothing interrupts it… nothing disturbs the silence… Everything remains… exactly as it is… You stay where you are… not moving… not thinking too much… just existing… within this quiet space… The candle still burns… slowly… its flame smaller now… weaker… but steady… It does not hurry… it does not change suddenly… it simply continues… just as everything does here… Time feels different now… longer… stretched… almost invisibl