“As the young woman observed the heron, absolutely still in its immaculate beauty, she settled into the Peace that she had so often known. The bubbles on the water’s surface might have been inside her own awareness. The sheen of the water had its analogue in her glistening consciousness. And the white bird, silent and contemplative, might have been her, Lucinda, the very embodiment of tranquility.”
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.
