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Learning To Die
In every spiritual tradition life is not something that you automatically have, it is something that you must choose, and what makes you choose life is the challenge of death — learning to die, not eventually, but here and now.
March 1982The Secret Sharer
An Interview With Jenovefa Knoop
When you’re really down, there are amazing resources that open up, psychic, emotional, ancestral resources and wisdom. Genuine suffering is never so bad. As heart-rending and bleak as it is, it pulls you to the center of creation, where everyone who has ever lived has suffered, to the great wellspring of wisdom and survival knowledge and grace.
March 1982A Choice
Day Of A Stranger
We all live somehow or other, and that’s that. It is a compelling necessity for me to be free to embrace the necessity of my own nature.
February 1982Celebrating Seth
Seth is an elder but an equal, who insists, “Basically you are no more of a physical being than I am, and I have donned and discarded more bodies than I care to tell. . . . Consciousness creates form. It is not the other way around. . . .”
February 1982Sunbeams
February 1982I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
The Terminal Restaurant
The Terminal Restaurant never looked real. Built like a small outdoor building indoors, and with its neon sign over the front door spelling its name in red, it made the place look like a movie set.
January 1982Call Them By Their Names With Passion
“Name and form” the rishis call it. “Function and form,” biologists reply. Parallels accumulate. Coincidence perhaps, but I am forced to wonder. How much power is in a word, and can I make it mine?
January 1982
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