“Love Transformation”
“Love transformed everything. It made what had formerly been hard, soft. It brought dead things to Life. It gave the superficial, depth. It turned the common into the Extraordinary. It endowed the purposeless with meaning. Life was now an immense adventure without end, a playground, a temple, a gem-walled cave, and a garden of supernal […]
Continue reading“The Saint”
“The saint looked directly at him, his eyes warm and paternally caressing. He was sitting cross-legged and wore a white cape wrapped round his body. His lips, though silent, still managed to speak comforting formless words. As Skylar stared up at him, he felt immense gratitude rising up out of his heart and flowing toward […]
Continue reading“Moon Trance”
“Blanche raised her eyes to the window. The full moon sat high in the sky. Vaporous, it resembled a white cotton pompon. Surrounding it at several diameters’ width were two halos, one apricot-colored and one lavender blue. Adjacent to the bottom quarter of the moon, a brilliant, pulsing object, the planet Jupiter, gleamed like a […]
Continue reading“What She Was”
“The toddling child lit a golden fire of love inside her heart. The flaming red blossoms tickled the chin of her very soul. The mackerel sky floated down over her in a soft bombardment of cotton puffs. Her body no longer possessed the mass and solidity it once had. Instead, it felt like a porous […]
Continue reading“She Became a Shelter”
The temple workers lovingly carried the whorled trunk of the tree to the spot where it would serve as a vital structural column. As it lay on the earth awaiting its erection, the congregation took notice; for they could see that it was a woman, whose body had grown into a tree. “It has taken […]
Continue reading“Rising Up”
“What the poet ended up creating through her efforts was a sort of renaissance of the hippie movement. Huge numbers of young people took to the streets to protest against war, police brutality, racism, misogyny, and xenophobia. Massive recruitment campaigns signed up a new generation of voters. Even kids too young to vote got involved […]
Continue reading“Love is All-Powerful”
“Love is all-powerful. Hate can never withstand love. It is like a friable rock that gets worn away by repeated bathings of the ocean waves. A core group of people in a society dedicated to meditation and prayer, fully embracing love and acceptance, cannot for long be held off by the forces of hate and […]
Continue reading“Women Changing the World”
“Women, when activated by the heart, can move mountains. The women who heard Paz’s message carried it back to their families, spread it in their neighborhood gatherings, took it to their political rallies, and insisted on it with their elected representatives. They demanded that their nations move away from hostility and war and toward negotiation […]
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