“Maximos was silent for a couple of minutes. The friends all looked at him, eager to hear how he would reply. “When you go deep within your soul, you come to gaze upon the divine light. After gazing upon it for some time, you become that Light. Then you are nothing that you were before. You are only a servant of God. Your work in the world is His work in the world. Does that make sense to you?”
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.
