“Dreamy Love”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “Conventional wisdom had it that girls got such notions from reading fairytales and too closely identifying with their heroines. As best he could remember, Skylar had not spent much time on these stories and therefore could not fairly blame them for his chronic romanticism. He must have carried forward his dream […]
Continue reading“The Gifts of India”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “India had developed technology whose grandeur, scope, and precision boggled the mind. In comparison with it, the moon flights and electron microscopes of the West were child’s play. For India had technology, in its systems of yoga and meditation and its corpus of Vedas, Brahmanas, and Upanishads, that revealed “miracles” to […]
Continue reading“A Different Education”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “Early in his college life, he had decided to utilize those four years to attempt to gain, not a set of skills whose utility would be later revealed in wealth and renown, but answers to his profound questions about life and his place in it. Although he did not realize it […]
Continue reading“Eternity”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “He had experienced all the best emotions in those early days: the enthusiasm of new life on a new earth at springtime, the love of a pure heart overflowing with sweet nectar, the peace of inner silence that wandered in a world whose silence flowed out tranquilly to meet it, the […]
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