Archive Monthly Archives: September 2023

“On the Bridge”

“The car was twenty-five feet from the concrete, approaching it at about fifty miles an hour. It surprised me that nothing surged in my interior eye, no kaleidoscopic, greatest-hits images of the life of Skylar flashed before me. Conditions were simply peaceful; I had let go and accepted the inevitable. But, an instant later, someone […]

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“The Value of Struggle”

“Wiser souls welcome the planetary squares and oppositions, which pose the confrontations productive of transcendence and true progress in life. Overcoming maya, the great trap laid for the soul by the ego, crossing the teratoid seas of samsara, the endlessly repetitive cycle of suffering, does not happen without an epic struggle that inevitably involves the […]

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“The Cafe Chair”

“I sat, then, in the seat that was a lonely man’s heaven, the café chair, and absorbed the energies radiating off the life forms passing by, near, and around me. Like a single, flotational organism in the sea of human nekton, influenced by the changing tides but able to resist them, I one moment drifted […]

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“The Saint”

“By his presence at La Mer, the Master raised the awareness of the audience to that sublime level where the underlying unity of all creation is manifest. Being near him, we began to see our commonality rather than our differences. We understood the importance of having a higher mission on earth than simply struggling through […]

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“Laughter”

“Pealing laughter draws crowds. In a moment, four or five other guests came over to inquire the cause of all this jocularity. (It is a universal human trait to feel an imperative need to know what has made other people laugh, as if life is normally so boring that humor, like a precious gem, must […]

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