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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 […]
Continue reading“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 […]
Continue reading“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 […]
Continue reading“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 […]
Continue reading“Different”
“Why did she think herself different and weird? Front and center was her awareness of Eternity: she intuited that everything, absolutely (or, at least, relatively) everything that people in the world saw, felt, and thought about, was, in a crucial sense, unimportant. From experience she knew that there was an entirely different, better, infinite, and […]
Continue reading“Childhood Spirituality”
“Skylar’s saunter to school took, then, an ever-so-slightly-indulgent path on which stones came to magical life, fallen leaves wheezed goodbye to the world, and gutter water sluiced in turbulent runnels. These observations of animate nature were interspersed with time-transcendent, frozen moments in which he experienced a tangible sense of stoppage, of everything: of people, pebbles, […]
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