“The Angels”
“Lining the walls of the cave, pressed closely together like pedestrians waiting for the light to change, were dozens of angels. They shared many qualities—having as their constitution a sort of fuzzy gauze of light, bearing wings, showing indistinct features—but each differed slightly from the next. Several were clearly female, something in their faces showed […]
Continue reading“Suffering”
“Suffering plays a role in spiritual evolution. It reminds people to seek Spirit. One always hears about the mother praying hardest when her daughter is sick, or the businessman who began to recite the name of the Lord when his fortune was threatened. Overwhelming sorrow shows the sufferer that the only way out is through […]
Continue reading“Love is Natural”
“‘Love is natural to One who Exists in the Self. The Self is All Love. Everyone the Self deals with, everything It touches, receives Love spontaneously, just as one gets wet touching water. There need be no effort. The Love is just there to be shared with all. As detachment increases, so does love for […]
Continue reading“Nothing is Dead”
“Nothing is Dead”: “Shivaji spoke. As he did so, the flames surrounding his form palpitated in rhythm with his words. “Nothing is dead. All is alive, vibrating, and intelligent. Look around.” Theo did so and was astonished to see that the grass, the trees, even the buttes and mountains did, indeed, throb with life force […]
Continue reading“Transformation”
“What a different world he discovered! One night of snowfall had utterly transformed his mountaintop. What had been gray and brown was now uniformly white. What had been sharp-edged was now smooth-faced. What had been moonlike now resembled the North Pole of one’s childhood fantasies. Only the waterfall and the lake remained as they had […]
Continue reading“The Ancient Spell”
“The bus slowed to pass over a steel bridge spanning a deep canyon. In the soft morning light, the plant growth below the bridge showed the color and texture of peat moss. The trees climbing up the banks above the bridge, protected as they were from the sunshine by a rim of encircling hills, shone […]
Continue reading“Pacific”
“The man sat facing the ocean, the Pacific on that day living up to its name. But the color of the water had no name. Its ever-so-slightly green-tinted blue had never been painted on canvas, but existed only on the impeccable palette of Nature. In fact, it was not so much a color as a […]
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