“They talked all night, the hours passing unnoticed. In the morning, they knew they were in love. Hand in hand they walked out to the shore to watch the sunrise. The lemon fireball spread sky and sea with melting orange sorbet. Walking in the trees that lined the beach, they embraced. As they joined together, they grew taller and taller. A tree grew up around their joined bodies. And that tree reached up to the heavens. Now lovers always come to see this tree.”
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.