Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “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 […]
Continue readingExcerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “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 […]
Continue readingExcerpt 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 readingExcerpt 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 readingExcerpt 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 readingExcerpt 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 […]
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