The improbable thing about instincts, in a self-conscious world, is that they have a life of their own. This is one of the basic conundrums of existence. Why was the world made this way, that while consciousness and self-knowledge want to grow, evolve and ascend, our instincts remain zoological? It’s as if we have the [...]
Continue Reading...Christian mysticism is a deep feeling for the living truth as it appears in its icons. It longs for that truth to be at the heart of human life. Christian mystics experience that truth as immediate personal experience. The same holds true for the mysticism of other faiths. Mystic Christianity was practised by figures such [...]
Continue Reading...The pure mind contains within it all the civilizations of the earth and all its periods of development. The ‘sky’ of mind overarches everything physical, from the deepest ocean to the highest mountain-top. This is something a poet can feel – but he has to align himself with his most exalted Muse to know it [...]
Continue Reading...The house of art is built with many grants – and there are those who value their new extensions more than the art itself. Therefore I must ask where does the value really come from? Am I alone in thinking that the artist is the higher mind which is housed in no facility at all [...]
Continue Reading...Just as inner being wants to enter into life, so life longs to open into inner being. In a sense we have to be done with life and death, with the world as a hard possession. Isn’t it true we sometimes treat the earth as if it’s a coin we’ve earned and now have to [...]
Continue Reading...The answer to a prayer is invisible. It occurs in unexpected ways. And yet you can feel its courage lifting in the heart, you can climb the way it opens up for you as you might climb a stair, and can stand in wonder before its perfect art. Is there anyone who hasn’t waited down [...]
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