Ruminations of the day -

            On taking a walk to the shop, on this cold but green April day.          I passed an overhanging lilac tree and took the time to pull           the fragrant flowers towards me and enjoy one of the early 
        Summers intense aromas. If indeed, the eyes are the windows
        of the soul, then surely the nose is a gateway (( and indeed one of the most subtle of all the senses )Yet strangely in very few spiritual traditions, is this sense valued ( as also the sense of taste )  
           Perhaps they are considered to be too primitive?

             I often feel, that all the senses are directly connected to ones being, without the interpretation of the brain and although I know that the idea is very un-scientific let's say they give us a very direct and intense contact with life. And just for a few seconds, before the whole naming and identification process begins, there is a direct link to ones being and to the raw reality of the thing, creature or being that we are seeing, touching, hearing or tasting.