“Night Sky”

“It had been a long night for Gilberto. After parting with Tahatan, he didn’t get another ride for a long time. He decided to walk beside the road. Soon, darkness had descended on the land. Now, what little traffic had passed over the road during the day disappeared. The boy had only the moaning of owls and the celestial bodies to keep him company. But he was far from depressed. He had always found the starlit heavens inspiring. The baby moon looked like a mere scraping of the satellite. But the stars made up for the pallor of the moon’s small smile. They were myriad! They stretched out in fantastic formations like colossally magnified strands of universal DNA. Like those games for children in which dots are connected to form pictures, the stars formed shapes. Gilberto didn’t see the traditional ones. He saw Christmas ribbons and snowfalls, bumpy-surfaced vases and grocery carts. The latter made him laugh out loud. I wonder who’s shopping up there, he asked himself. And what they’re shopping for.” (from “Palace of Perfect Wisdom”)

Richard Maddox

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.

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