“Superhuman”
“He could now feel every muscle, every tendon, every ligament in his body: all of them aglow with life force. A serum of superhumanity must have been secretly injected into him. Monumental strength, like that of a legendary warrior, surged in his body. Precise, analytical calculations worthy of Machiavelli ran through his brain. Confidence of […]
Continue reading“Joy Within”
“Eternity and Joy had not disappeared but only retreated into deep sanctuary. Like precious holy texts which, in an act of sacrilege (for he had gathered together the sacred instruments and scriptures), he had carried deep into the bowels of his being, into caves, down precipitous flights of stairs, along tortuous and constricted pathways, behind […]
Continue reading“Living in Light”
“For, as I looked up at the clouds, I knew they carried a vital message which my intuition had to be sharp enough to decipher. It appeared to me that these sky-floating massifs spoke of the difference between mere existence and true life: of what it means to associate oneself with the Light. They told […]
Continue reading“Santa cruz Coastline”
“Oceans move like immense lovers, with gentle, quiet, smooth undulations, which one cannot see coming; they rise from somewhere deep; they swell; they pick up mass and force; they move irreversibly, relentlessly onward, then they crest, break, and explode; they spume skywards and they are gone. This morning the waves moved in ridges of light […]
Continue reading“First Inklings of Eternity”
“Eternity, like the peek-a-boo morning sun, clasping the horizon’s brim, had been close to bursting forth in all its auroral, igniform, blind dazzle. It had lurked just beneath the edge of his world, like an actor straining to hold himself back so as not to make a premature entrance, ready to set the surrounding space […]
Continue reading“Florida Sunrise”
“But as the curtain went up, I turned off my mental machine and enjoyed the spectacle for what it was, a marvel. Harbingers of the sun’s arrival flew across the sky in the form of delicate tinctures of cyclamen and flamingo that instantly divinized the formerly dull stratocumulus archipelagos and peninsulas, heating their near edges […]
Continue reading“Mystical Experience”
“He felt that he had been dissolved as a discrete entity but had, in an incomparably advantageous exchange, been reconstituted as the vital center of everything. Ego had nothing to do with this conception; on the contrary, the change allowed Skylar to see, in a profound way, that not only were all people and things […]
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