“One’s soul is a cornucopia of joys of every sort and shape. A smile beamed out to others brings instant and like response. Attention paid to a simple bag of coffee causes it to radiate brilliant sparks of lively energy. A step taken stirs the oceanic Bliss in which that foot moves, like the free-swimming […]
Continue reading“It now becomes apparent that it is not only the child’s fresh awareness and unpolluted body that is capable of supporting Wondrous Vision. Even the inner eye of the soul that has seen much of life and the body that has walked long on earth can delight in this Splendor. For the mission of one’s […]
Continue reading“One had always felt certain that this hidden Glory existed, even though one’s senses had never been able to perceive it until now. One had sensed the Wonder hidden behind the muck and the murk, the rust and the rivets of the everyday world. But now to actually see It in all Its Splendor! What […]
Continue reading“The Love revealed the tenderness of the nursing mother for her newborn, the protectiveness of the lioness for her cubs, and the bounty of the young lover for his at-last-found mate. This Love wished to reveal the glories of the Absolute to all, to wave its gemmy wand above their heads so that the confusing […]
Continue reading“Love transformed everything. It made what had formerly been hard, soft. It brought dead things to Life. It gave the superficial, depth. It turned the common into the Extraordinary. It endowed the purposeless with meaning. Life was now an immense adventure without end, a playground, a temple, a gem-walled cave, and a garden of supernal […]
Continue reading“Blanche raised her eyes to the window. The full moon sat high in the sky. Vaporous, it resembled a white cotton pompon. Surrounding it at several diameters’ width were two halos, one apricot-colored and one lavender blue. Adjacent to the bottom quarter of the moon, a brilliant, pulsing object, the planet Jupiter, gleamed like a […]
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“As a very young child he had experienced monotony, travail, lonely isolation, and intense yearning in “Bolero,” the wonders of discovery and majestic natural beauty in the “Grand Canyon Suite,” and the mystery of falling in love in “South Pacific.” In his adolescent years, he soothed the tribulations of imprisoning loneliness, dangerous self-hatred, forlorn infatuation, […]
Continue reading“Here, on the island, the peacocks roamed in all their weird glory. The creatures appeared to contain three entirely dissimilar bodies in one: an electric-blue neck, so stunningly bright as to be almost overpowering, a brown-gray-and-white back that looked like brain tissue or fish scales, and a tail that might have been a nest woven […]
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