“Skylar’s heart did not simply emerge from the oubliette where it had long hidden, but it issued from that neglected darkness with the spiritual effulgence of a saint who has spent fifteen years in ceaseless communication with God. It was no longer a question of finding his heart inside his body but of locating his […]
Continue reading“He found it charming that he could hear the splashes as the dolphin sped through the waters of the lake and of outer space and that he could feel the cool pearlescent radiance coming out of the moon as it floated just out of the reach of the nucleus: a moon that sincerely wished it […]
Continue reading“Several nights later, I was on the ocean road heading back to the apartment. Like a drunk or a man with love-eyes fixated on the woman at his side, I could not focus on the road down which I drove, but, instead, felt a spell from on high drawing my vision upwards. The moon, squished […]
Continue reading“Returning to a state more closely approaching his normal consciousness than the one through whose broken clouds he had been floating, Skylar headed across campus toward his room. The arrangement of the moon and stars seemed full of secret import, like a Gnostic device rich with meaningful symbols. But, just as Spirit-blind academics overlooked the […]
Continue readingWhat wisdom our childhood ditty contained! “Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” Take your seat in the craft, precisely where destiny has placed you. Do your work, hard and heavy as it may seem. And, though that work be tiring, treat gently everyone […]
Continue reading“It happened early on Easter morning. I was five years old at the time and had, with my brother as my sole companion, embarked on a big-boy adventure, flying down to Florida to stay with my grandparents. My grandmother was a delightful, short, round woman who, at every opportunity lavished love on and spoiled us. […]
Continue reading“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 be acts within the […]
Continue reading“Sitting in his lumpy armchair, whose fabric, the color of snow peas, showed the fading caused by years spent in living-room sunshine and the stains and rips received, like service wounds, at the hands of coffee-drinking neighbors and boys still learning how to whittle, engaged in the soundless production of smoke rings, Skylar found himself […]
Continue reading“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 urge to embrace all […]
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