It is not true for one minute that plants live for earth, for sun, for wind, for rain, or tremble before the far-off ravaging fire, lightning, storm or flood. They live only for the flower which has existed in them since birth. In vain we wait for sap to tell its truth, for life itself [...]
Continue Reading...The day is coming when soul and sound, when self and sight will be one. It will be the time when cosmos and consciousness will live inside each other. And at the heart of both there will be a birth, a newborn child. This is the meaning of Advent in the Christian year – a [...]
Continue Reading...The seven ages of man Shakespeare described are true. In the life of Shakespeare they were true. You can read the seven ages of man in your own life. The poet does that here: And once again the surfeit of the season does not want to give way to the paucity of the next. The [...]
Continue Reading...We find love in family, in our arrangements and choices for life. Then we are surprised when Love doesn’t find preferment in us. It takes away a family member inexplicably; it casts asunder all our arrangements and plans and throws us out into a cold world unprepared. How is this possible? Life isn’t meant to [...]
Continue Reading...Which is greater, the love of life or the fear of death? If you level them out you have the sphere of earth: a roundness purporting to be flat. Earth is the sphere of our activity – we walk in it in life and lie in it in death. Therefore in a sense the joys [...]
Continue Reading...My nephew died recently at the age of twenty-nine. It was sudden and unexpected – a deep tragedy for the family. Being on the periphery for the first few days after the news reached me, I was more able than most to devote myself to prayer, contemplation, readings and quietness. Placing my nephew in the [...]
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