“Time and Space”
“Skylar walked to Fairer Elementary school with his brother. They only needed to go half a block down Mayfield to the stop sign, turn right, walk to Hampshire, the next street over, then cross it to the school. Space and time had for him, in those days, an elasticity related to his consciousness, a sort […]
Continue reading“Sacred Presence”
“The ambience around an enlightened being is such that anyone in it has their attention ineluctably broadened to the most expansive and generous outlook. It is as though the holy person merely points up to the sky and everyone around him stops concentrating on the thorns and pebbles over which they are trudging and gazes […]
Continue reading“Angelsea”
“‘Angelsea’ captured the essence of woman, as the cosmic love force, moving with an angel’s grace, with the universe as her home, as a divine mermaid, her life-breath the heat of love itself, the paramour of magic, the speller of the gods themselves, clad in rainbows and teardrops. Cat Stevens sang it with the earthy […]
Continue reading“On the Bridge”
“The car was twenty-five feet from the concrete, approaching it at about fifty miles an hour. It surprised me that nothing surged in my interior eye, no kaleidoscopic, greatest-hits images of the life of Skylar flashed before me. Conditions were simply peaceful; I had let go and accepted the inevitable. But, an instant later, someone […]
Continue reading“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 […]
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