We’ve left words in their prison to languish and die. We’ve separated them from their origins and their gods. How is this? On the one hand we treat them as objects, devoid of living content. We deny them any connection to the things they describe, instead of seeing that they are the very life and [...]
Continue Reading...Truth and Love are gods in their own right. We like to think that they are the products of our brain and heart, but this is illusion. They exist as pure Being above us. The idea that they are merely expressions of our own physical or mental life – properties of our time on earth – [...]
Continue Reading...The nature of reality is veiled. Very often we are forced to act as if a certain set of facts holds true, simply because the situation demands action. And then we discover that the truth was very different from what we thought. One finds this time and again in fairytales that a deeper reality is [...]
Continue Reading...The science of our day is like a man who wears a blindfold to find his way to another country. It uses something like forty-one per cent of our capacities and experience. It denies us the right to use what I would call our deeper sight – the sight which stays with things over time [...]
Continue Reading...On any path worth travelling the questions burn, like footsteps on an urgent journey. For those who choose not to move the answers come more easily and will be just as easily cast aside. And there must be lights on the way, candles you will burn to see that the air is cold and gleaming, anticipating [...]
Continue Reading...Sometimes the poet must think he lives in a world of one. He loves fantasies, and the realm of the imagination is like a glorious story-book he can dwell in by day and dream in at night. But then, as if he has been reborn from a medieval existence, the forms and figures of fantasy [...]
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