The Spiritual Journey

The conditions of a solitary bird are five;

the first, that it flies to the highest point;

the second, that it does not suffer for company;
not even of its own kind;

the third, that it aims its beak to the skies;

the fourth, that it does not have a definite color;

the fifth, that it sings very softly

                                                                                  (John of the Cross)