“Devotion is bhakti, worship, love. Devotion is from the heart. It is surrendering yourself to God wholly and completely. Worshipper, worshipping, and worshipped merge into Oneness. Only by being identified with the Lord, can one worship Him. Knowledge is of the mind, but not of the thinking mind. A meditator uses the mantra to sink deep into the silence of the Absolute. There she gains the ultimate knowledge.”
Richard Dietrich Maddox's writing focuses on the search for permanent happiness, the goal of finding paradise on earth, the attainment of human Enlightenment. His work, though fiction, attempts to convey the profound spiritual Truth passed on to humanity by Enlightened Masters. Maddox approaches spiritual wisdom from a Western level of experience, presenting characters to whom readers can easily relate, offering situations in which readers might well have found themselves. His work offers, in a style which those living in the West will find understandable, the possibility of blissful existence.
