When light grows most intense and reflects on water, say a river or a stream, you may have the feeling that the water has no other being except that of light. Similarly, my life – my heart or soul – may find a new direction when its wholeness receives the outpouring of a greater heart. [...]
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Love itself appears in the here and now, a living light. Between the layers of time, as if returning from a distant fight or a high mountain, love appears. It takes its place within, like a second self, where there had been a hollow space before. And what has never been at last can be, a [...]
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There are births and there are births. The new self, the higher, deeper, other child within us, will emerge through time. We will be born again. What is less familiar in this idea is that we bear the inner being for each other, and carry it to term. The reborn man in me will reach [...]
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My own small heart dwells within the great heart of the cosmos. There I find my life, my being, the reason for my existence. And yet the great cosmos lies hidden in my own heart too, waiting for its chance of discovery. In a sense, it can only live and find its wings if I [...]
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The world, like a cloister, is full of separate porticoes, through which people walk, and think and feel. The sun dips into each one of them, and names it freely for its soft love of light. Likewise we, with our many individual minds, have taken the ancient understanding of life, and made it into separate, [...]
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Six days and six bridges to get to the town – and no dream is too great, and no hope too far. But what part of yourself are you leaving behind? Is it an equal being who needs to go too and accomplish an unknown task? Each day brings complications, the bridge a furrowed brow. [...]
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