“A Bath of Gold”

“As the afternoon ended, the landscape got bathed in a light of gold more precious than any king’s treasury. The rough ground to his immediate right gleamed like piles of strewn nuggets. The higher hills above this ground resembled bars of gold warped under great heat. A stretch of glacial ice could have been an […]

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Are You Seeking Peace and Tranquility?

Is the news of the world distressing or depressing you? Might you enjoy a refreshing escape to a place of love, beauty, and peace? My newest novel, “Osi and Isi: A Tale of Twin Flames,” is intended to float you off to just such a place. (If I post the link here, FB will limit […]

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“The Waterfall”

“From fifty yards’ distance, the threads of the waterfall looked discrete, individual, unique. Theo mulled over the image of the lyre. It pleased him to think that each of these streams represented a specific string on the musical instrument of the falls. Nature had strung them on their rocky frame to make the music, which, […]

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“The Lake”

“It took him three days to attain that height, but, on the fourth, he found himself overlooking a sapphirine-blue lake, into which emptied a waterfall in the shape of a Greek lyre. Mocha-hued rocks atop and at the side formed the frame of the instrument, and narrow white filaments of water, its strings. The natural […]

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“Love Is Not”

“Love is not selfish. Selfish love is not really love, but infatuation. Infatuation produces misery. One is all the time worrying about losing the person or object one is attached to. Love yields peace and harmony. Genuine love does not require anything from the beloved. On the contrary, it accepts them for who they are […]

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“Love is Natural”

“‘Love is natural to One who Exists in the Self. The Self is All Love. Everyone the Self deals with, everything It touches, receives Love spontaneously, just as one gets wet touching water. There need be no effort. The Love is just there to be shared with all. As detachment increases, so does love for […]

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“The Ram Jhula Bridge”

“And the tempered rays rendered the houses and other buildings on the far side of the river powdery white, and barely blue and palest yellow. As Theo contemplated the scene before him, his focus attenuated, a familiar stillness permeated his body and mind. A sort of frozen-awareness trance came over him, as it had on […]

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“The Great Stage”

“Invisibly, the sun had now set. The sun makes the utter difference between an apparently living and a seemingly dead nature. As he plays on the water, a thousand transcendental thoughts pass through my mind. Each mirror glint on the sea reflects the Consciousness that put it there. As he reflects on the ephemerals of […]

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