“‘The Quran says that God is nearer to man than his jugular vein. He is the parchment upon which all this beauty is constantly being illuminated. But how difficult it is for man to see the parchment behind the colorful illustrations! The common soul splashes about on the surface of the sea, while the true devotee dives for the precious pearl only to be found on its bottom.’”
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.
