“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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“After the waves spent themselves against the sand, the lazy whitewater spume formed crescent shapes, which overlapped like paint blobs on an artist’s palette, some superjacent, some underneath. As I lost my sense of a separate self, a physical form with a so-called mind contained in that shape, my soul flowed out, spreading, deliquescing, and […]
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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