“The saint looked directly at him, his eyes warm and paternally caressing. He was sitting cross-legged and wore a white cape wrapped round his body. His lips, though silent, still managed to speak comforting formless words. As Skylar stared up at him, he felt immense gratitude rising up out of his heart and flowing toward […]
Continue reading“The toddling child lit a golden fire of love inside her heart. The flaming red blossoms tickled the chin of her very soul. The mackerel sky floated down over her in a soft bombardment of cotton puffs. Her body no longer possessed the mass and solidity it once had. Instead, it felt like a porous […]
Continue reading“Lying on my bed in the dark, listening to The Young Rascals, I would weave glorious fantasies that allowed me to fulfill in imagination what remained beyond my reach in reality. Visions of a demure maiden, whose blonde hair fell, in undulant waves, down to her waist, rose before my eyes. I would see her […]
Continue reading“What the poet ended up creating through her efforts was a sort of renaissance of the hippie movement. Huge numbers of young people took to the streets to protest against war, police brutality, racism, misogyny, and xenophobia. Massive recruitment campaigns signed up a new generation of voters. Even kids too young to vote got involved […]
Continue reading“Love is all-powerful. Hate can never withstand love. It is like a friable rock that gets worn away by repeated bathings of the ocean waves. A core group of people in a society dedicated to meditation and prayer, fully embracing love and acceptance, cannot for long be held off by the forces of hate and […]
Continue reading“Women, when activated by the heart, can move mountains. The women who heard Paz’s message carried it back to their families, spread it in their neighborhood gatherings, took it to their political rallies, and insisted on it with their elected representatives. They demanded that their nations move away from hostility and war and toward negotiation […]
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