“Love As Music”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “Romance—and physical contact formed the pith of romance to the youth—was a matter of timelessness; one had to forget the world and time and lose oneself in the worship, the divine magic, of the loved one. One had to fall deeply into a trance of childlike discovery, encountering and appreciating each […]
Continue reading“Santa Cruz Coastline”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “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 […]
Continue reading“The Path”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “After forty years of working hard at the problem, I have finally begun to understand at least the basics of what many wise souls have been trying to tell their fellow human beings over the ages. All these masters of the highest science, spirituality, though they spoke in different metaphors and […]
Continue reading“Mystical Experience”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “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 […]
Continue reading“Florida Sunrise”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “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, […]
Continue reading“Nothing But Love”
Excerpt from “A Living Lighthouse”: “’Remember that Jesus himself fed the hungry and healed the sick. Do all that you can to be of service to your fellow man. But Jesus also helped the crowds gathered around him by his presence and with his words, divine words, words of love, words that pierced their hearts […]
Continue reading“Angels in the Cave”
Excerpt from “A Living Lighthouse”: “As they stood there stunned, the friends heard a voice sounding behind them. Turning, they saw an opening in the wall of rock. Above this opening hung a small roof constructed of unhewed timber. A net of branches covered the timber and was weighed down by a couple dozen rocks. […]
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