The Infinite Heart
A Journey Into the Teachings of 150 Great
Mystics, Masters, Poets and Saints
WEEK ONE: The Gaze of the Heart: Monday
All right. It’s recording.
Good. Then let’s get started. So, before there was anything– any thing at all– there was Ultimate Reality, the Source, the Godhead, Pure Essence, the Ground of all being, what I sometimes refer to as Sol.
S-o-u-l?
No. Capital S, long o, l. Sol.
Why do you call this– whatever it is– Sol?
Sol as in sun. It’s like an infinite, shimmering, translucent sun. Sol as in Sun Of Light. And Source Of Life. It’s the Mother of existence. Sol as in soul, s-o-u-l. It’s the Ultimate Essence, the One Consciousness, the Supreme Soul. And Sol as in sole,
s-o-l-e. It’s the Only. The One. The All.
So basically, in the beginning there was an infinite, ultimate, single, supreme, soulful sun of light. Well that pretty much clears everything up for me. I’m pretty sure I’m enlightened now. Thanks for your time.
We have to start somewhere. You’ve probably heard the saying, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Yeah, well I’m still trying to get my shoes on. I mean, we just suddenly dove in, and I’m not even sure what we dove into. I know you’re trying to give me some kind of overview of how we got separated from our true essence and how we can get back “Home”, as you call it. But I’m not exactly the most qualified guy around to be talking with you about this stuff. I mean, most marketing degree programs don’t offer a lot of classes on deep spiritual truths. I did take a few psychology classes though. “Understanding and Manipulating the Consumer Mind,” that kind of thing. I had to take an Ethics class too, which I did really well in. That guy I paid to write my term paper must have done a hell of a job. If there’s one thing I learned in college, and that sounds about right, it’s that if you want something done right in this world, you gotta pay out the wazoo.
Anyway, the point is that when it comes to this stuff, I’ve read a few books and been to a few talks, but that’s about it. I tried to meditate once, but I ran out of things to think about so I had to stop. And once I tried hugging a tree, if that counts for anything. I just got sap all over my clothes. A real bonding experience. I mean, the closest I’ve ever come to a mystical experience was when I was walking in the mountains one day and suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! I saw a sign. Changed my life.
What did you see?
A sign. It said “park maps.”
And this changed your life?
I had this sudden realization that backwards it spelled “spam krap.” I haven’t had any since. Unlike my email. But the point is, I just don’t get why you asked me, of all people, if I wanted to have these conversations with you.
Do you remember the question you asked the other night?
At your talk? Yeah. It felt like everyone but me was following what you were saying, nodding their saintly little heads and smiling and all. And I was just completely fricking lost most of the time. It was frustrating. I felt totally inferior and inadequate. So I just told you what was going on, and asked if I should just assume that since I didn’t get what the hell you were talking about, that meant I wasn’t ready to hear it yet. That I wasn’t spiritually evolved enough or something.
And do you remember my response?
Well, you said that it’s no one’s place but mine to decide what I’m ready to hear. And that my lack of understanding might be more of a reflection on you than me. You said maybe you gear your talks too much towards people who already know what you’re talking about.
I do tend to assume a certain level of spiritual understanding and experience in those who feel drawn to my talks. But after your question, I found myself wondering how many others have left one of my talks feeling lost, inadequate and discouraged. By focusing on those who are already familiar with these teachings, I may have been inadvertently alienating many of those who are actually the most thirsty for them.
When you say “these teachings” are you talking about one particular spiritual path?
Many rivers. One ocean.
Good to know. When you say “these teachings” are you talking about one particular spiritual path?
I’m speaking of the universal insights, realizations and experiences found at the depths of all spiritual paths. Many of these understandings have been around for more than twenty-five centuries, and have developed independently in several different cultures.. Of course, different teachers and different paths have their own languages, their own metaphors, their own perspectives, their own flavors. But that which they seek to unveil is essentially the same. There are many paths up a mountain. Each path brings forth different experiences and scenery. And different concepts of what the mountain is like. But whichever path is followed, the clear view at the top is the same. The nineteenth century Japanese Zen master, Ryokan, wrote “In all ten directions of the universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same.”
In the last several decades, there has been increasing awareness of and interest in the undeniable similarities in the perspectives of those who have glimpsed the view from the mountain top, regardless of the path they followed to get there. They are describing very similar maps of the nature of reality. And currently, more people than ever before are being exposed to these maps, through talks and workshops, through the writings of masters and mystics throughout the ages, and through more recent books. And more people than ever are coming to know through direct experience the terrain these maps describe. More people than ever are beginning to glimpse Home.
My friend, it appears we are starting to see the beginning of a global awakening. A quickening that could bring in a new degree of maturation of the human species. We have been caterpillars long enough! And we are beginning to encounter more butterflies around us than ever before!
Somehow I tend to pretty much only attract moths.
But in spite of the growing interest in these universal teachings, there are still a great many people who have not yet been exposed to even the more basic ones in a clear way. And very, very few are familiar with the deepest and most pristine of these teachings, even though they appear again and again throughout the centuries. When you asked your question the other night, it became clear to me that it is time to try to help make these teachings more accessible to the many who are still longing to hear them. To start at the beginning, and to gradually move deeper into those teachings that are so astoundingly revolutionary to the mind, and yet that resonate so deeply within the heart as pure, simple and true.
Just because of something I said? There go your credibility ratings. But I still don’t get why you decided to personally tutor me in “Spirituality 101″.
First of all, it was clear the other night that you have a deep desire to understand. I felt compelled to honor that. It was also clear that you have a willingness to speak your mind. I believe you are independent enough to not just blindly accept everything I tell you.
If you say so.
But these conversations will feed two birds with one seed. They will be a learning experience for us both. I’ve never tried to explain these teachings, from the beginning, to someone not yet familiar with them, and this seemed to be a good way for me to get my feet wet.
So basically, I’m your guinea pig. I can’t express how honored I feel.
Don’t mention it.
But why record our talks?
I’m not sure yet. I just had the feeling it might be a good idea. Maybe it will be helpful for one of us later, or maybe it will serve some other purpose, I don’t know. So shall we return to the teachings?
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All right. So what do you mean when you say that Sol is a brilliant sun of light?
This is just a very simplified way to begin to conceptualize it. Essence can be thought of as light, but not as we normally think of it. Capital “L” Light. It is the infinite Pure Light that gives birth to all that is in this world.
You know how there are different frequencies of light, and we can only see a narrow band? I can sort of conceptualize this light if I think of it as way off the scale.
That’s one way of looking at it. Although this Light is everywhere, it’s not within the narrow range of what our physical eyes can see. In the fifth century, Saint Augustine wrote “I entered into the secret closet of my soul, led by Thee… and beheld with the mysterious eye of my soul the Light that never changes… It was not the common light which all flesh can see, nor was it greater yet of the same kind… but it was higher because it made me, and I was lower because I was made by it. He who knows the truth knows that Light; and he who knows it knows eternity. Love knows it.” So this Light is much more than a frequency beyond the scale. It’s like all of the frequencies together, before they were ever separated. And it’s that which gave every frequency its birth.
So maybe it’s kind of like the pure light that comes into a prism, not one of the divided color frequencies that leave it.
Yes. Imagine everything, all matter, all energy, to only manifest as its own individual property after it has gone through the prism.
So the prism is like a gateway into created reality. A prism portal.
Yes. Before this prism, There was only the Pure Light of the Source.
Then what was the prism? What was this gateway that transformed the Essence into all of these properties?
We’re getting ahead of ourselves. For now let’s focus on the Source itself.
All right, then what did you mean when you said Sol as in soul, s-o-u-l.
Give it a try.
I don’t know. You said that Sol existed before anything else. So I guess you could see it as the original soul. The original essence. The precursor to all other souls. You know, it’s not easy being pre-cursed.
Ahh, but we are pre-blessed! We pretend to be the shell, we think that we’re the creature, but truly we’re the Pearl, on a great adventure! You’re right that this One Sun is the original Essence. The One Soul out of which all souls are born. The word “soul” also suggests consciousness. Pure Being is Infinite Consciousness. Infinite Awareness.
This Light is conscious?
To say that it’s conscious might suggest there is something other for it to be conscious of. There is only the One. It’s more accurate to say that it is Pure Awareness. With a capital “P” and a capital “A”. It’s far beyond what we normally think of as awareness. Far more pure, simple and vast.
It’s really baffling. Each word sounds like English. But the way you put them together, I don’t know. Swahili or something. Let’s come back to that one. What about Sol as in sole, s-o-l-e?
Ultimate Reality is all there is. There is nothing else. It’s the Only. It’s the One.
What do you mean it’s the only? The only what?
It’s the Only. We can’t say that it’s the only thing there is, for it isn’t a thing. It’s every thing. And much more. It’s the Oneness, the unity, the medium, the field, the ground, the Source, the Essence, that underlies all things. Everything that exists is a particular manifestation of this Essence, just as every wave is a particular manifestation of the ocean. And yet, waves are never something other than the ocean. The waves of the various aspects of our level of reality are never truly separate from the luminous Ocean of Essence. A failing of this metaphor is that it gives the impression we are somehow on the surface of Essence. In fact, there is no surface. It is infinite. And we’re always in its depths.
So we’re in this cosmic ocean of Light right now?
It’s said a fish will be the last to discover water.
Yeah, well, a fish will pretty much be the last to discover anything.
Ultimate Reality is an infinite ocean of Light, and all that exists rests within this ocean. Most of us do not see it. Most of us seldom experience it. But it is everywhere. And although this Light manifests in infinite ways after it has gone through the prism, it’s still essentially the Light. Essence. Pure Being.
So basically, you’re just saying that everything in existence is made of this Light after it has gone through the prism and separated into all of the different aspects of reality. And, therefore, everything in reality is the Light. It’s a pretty simple concept, really. So, just a few wrap up questions: What the hell is the Light, what the hell is the prism, what the hell do you mean we’re a pearl on an adventure, and what the hell does a fish have to do with anything?
How about one question at a time.
So what’s the Light? You’ve said that it’s the Essence, the Source, the One, and that all of reality comes from it. But you also said it’s like an ocean that all of us are in all the time.
It is Ultimate Reality. The Ground of all Being. The Source that creates and sustains manifest or created reality. The Chinese sage, Lao-tzu, wrote twenty-five hundred years ago, “There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is the mother of the universe. For lack of a better name, I call it the Tao.” And a few centuries earlier, the Hindu scriptures, the Upanishads, described it this way: “As a spider spreads and withdraws its thread, so out of the Immutable does the phenomenal universe arise.”
Those who have intimately known it throughout the centuries have called it by many names: The Tao, the One, the Real, Brahman, Emptiness, the Void, the Formless, Pure Awareness, the Ultimate, the Absolute, the Infinite, God, the Divine, the Self, the Source, the Light, Pure Being, Pure Love, True Nature, Essence and so on. Some Ancient Indian texts refer to it as Satchitananda. “Sat”, meaning existence or being, “chit”, meaning awareness, and “ananda”, meaning bliss. It is infinite Being, infinite Awareness, and infinite Joy.
So basically, the goal is to become full of chit. I’m so close. Yet so far. So you were saying?
The twentieth century French priest, Henri le Saux, spent years in India exploring the common ground between Hinduism and Christianity, and eventually became a revered teacher to people of both faiths. He wrote “In my own innermost center, in the most secret mirror of my heart, I tried to discover the image of him whose I am, of him who lives and reigns in the infinite space of my heart. But the reflected image gradually grew faint, and soon it was swallowed up in the radiance of its Original… Finally, nothing was left but he himself, the Only One, infinitely alone, Being, Awareness, and Bliss, Satchitananda. In the heart of Satchitananda, I had returned to my Source.”
Of course, all of these words are inadequate. Human language cannot accurately describe that which is far beyond everything language was created to describe. Lao- tzu said “The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.” It’s beyond time, beyond space, beyond form, beyond duality, beyond every level of manifest reality. The Source created everything in existence from itself. All that is, including us, at the most basic level, is Pure Being.
How can it be beyond duality?
The seventh century Chinese master, Yung-chia Ta-shih,–
–Bless you.
As I was saying, he said “The Inner Light is beyond praise or blame; like space it knows no boundaries, yet it is even here, within us, ever retaining its serenity and fullness.” Pure Being is beyond blame and even beyond praise. It is beyond duality. In the pure and unified ocean of Essence, there are none of the dichotomies that emerge after the prism, after the manifestation into reality. In the eighth century, Hui Hai wrote “A mind that is truly free has reached the state in which opposites are seen as empty. There is only freedom.” And the Indian text, the Avadhut Gita, probably written around the ninth century, says “When a jar is broken, the space that was inside merges into the space outside. In the same way, my mind has merged in God; to me, there appears no duality.” The early twentieth century poet and author, D. H. Lawrence put it this way: “When I am timeless and absolute, all duality has vanished. But whilst I am temporal and mortal, I am framed in the struggle and embrace of the two opposite waves of darkness and of light.” Essence is pure Oneness. It has no good or evil, no right or wrong, no past and future, no subject and object.
No good or evil? Isn’t this Essence like the purest good?
It is so simple in its purity and unity that it is before both good and evil. The ninth century Sufi mystic, Yazid al-Bistami, said “Be in a realm where neither good nor evil exists. Both of them belong to the world of created beings.” In this realm of Pure Being there are no opposites at all. There is only the One.
I still don’t get this nondual thing.
We’ll talk about it more in the coming days, but the intellect can never grasp it. Duality cannot perceive Nonduality. It can only talk about it as though it were something else. And by its very nature, it can never be something else. One Indian Buddhist nun said, around the tenth century, “You may say ‘existence,’ but you can’t grasp it! You may say ‘nonexistence’ but many things appear! It is beyond the sky of ‘existence’ and ‘nonexistence’– I know it but cannot point to it!”
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I think I’m getting a brain cramp. I forgot to stretch it before we started.
While the Ground of all being sounds complex, it is ultimate simplicity. Ultimate purity. If it is awareness, it’s awareness ultimately simplified. If it’s being, it’s being ultimately simplified. If it’s energy, it’s energy ultimately simplified. Whatever qualities we attribute to it in a feeble attempt to understand it, we can imagine them being indescribably more pure, more clear, more simple and more vast than those same qualities when they describe things in our level of reality.
As long as we’re talking about things way over my head, why did this Ground of all being create reality? I mean, was it lonely, or bored, or did it just want a good laugh?
Let’s save that little question for tomorrow.
Okay. So quick recap. This Essence is some kind of a radiant, aware, nondual, limitless presence that’s beyond what we can normally experience or understand within the confines of our level of reality. And from it everything in our level of reality is created. So everything, all that is in reality, is this Essence.
Right. The sixteenth century Indian poet, Kabir, said “I see Him smiling everywhere as the supreme Beauty in every form.” And the Irish theologian, John Erigena, wrote in the ninth century, “We ought not understand God and creation as two things distinct from each other, but as one and the same. For both the creature, by subsisting, is in God; and God, by manifesting himself, in a marvelous and ineffable manner creates himself in the creature.” And the first century Greek philosopher, Simon Magus, wrote “There is one Divine Reality, divided as Higher and lower; generating Itself, nourishing Itself, seeking Itself, finding Itself… It is both Mother and Father, a Unity, being the Root of the entire circle of existence.”
It sounds like we’re talking about this Essence as two different things: The Essence itself, the source of reality, which is probably what he means by “the Higher”, and the– I guess you’d call it the post-prism Essence. The lower. Which became all of the aspects of created reality while somehow retaining its pure form within each aspect.
Yes, and that is a good way to put it.
Great. Now what did I say?
You said basically the same thing Ashvagosha said, a second century Indian poet and mystic: “In the one Soul we may distinguish two aspects. The one is the Soul-as-Absolute; the other is the Soul-as-relative-world. Each in itself constitutes all things, and both are so closely related that one cannot be separated from the other.”
So there’s pre-prism Essence and post-prism Essence. Clear as mud.
And once the Essence has gone through the prism, as it were, it may be understood as two things: as a template or matrix or blue print around which each aspect of reality gathers and congeals, and also as the stuff out of which each aspect is formed. It’s both the tiny, dissolved sugar particles in a glass of water, and the string around which they crystallize into organized structural patterns as the water evaporates.
Now that you put it that way, I still don’t get it.
Are you at all familiar with quantum physics?
I’ve read a number of books on the subject.
Good. Then you–
–Unfortunately, that number happens to be zero. Me and book stores don’t get along so well. Every time I go in one, my head gets stuck tilted to the right for a week. But anyway, how complicated can it be? I mean, it’s not rocket science. Is it?
Quantum physicists are well aware that everything in our level of reality, no matter how solid it appears, is made up of sub-atomic particles that have as much space between them, relative to their size, as the planets of a solar system. While rocks, trees, chairs, floors, our physical bodies, and the Earth itself all appear solid, if we could observe them closely enough, we would see much more emptiness than substance. In that respect we are, more than anything else, empty space.
I think we’ve all known a few people who demonstrate that.
For a long time, physicists expected to find a fundamental building block of matter, some indivisible particle. They have found instead that there comes a point in which particles cease being matter and become waves, probabilities, energetics. All matter is comprised of subatomic energy. This energy may be seen both as the matrix around which matter crystallizes, and as the stuff of which matter itself is composed.
And you’re saying that this energy is the Essence?
No. This energy is still part of created reality. I’m mentioning this as an analogy of how it’s possible that Essence is both the matrix around which the matter and energy of our level of reality is formed, as well as the fundamental stuff that comprises all matter and energy.
Look, I think you should know that I lost a lot of brain cells in college. They weren’t mine– I misplaced a tissue sample in biology class. But still, that incident taught me just how fragile brain cells can be, which is why I try not to overload mine with pointless extras like ideas.
Can you sense towards how it is that everything is both connected to this Essence and is this Essence? It’s in this way that Pure Being is an ocean all around us. For a time, we become as individual drops of water. But we’re always a part of the Ocean. The nineteenth century Indian sage, Ramakrishna, said “I do actually see that it is the Absolute who has become all things around us; it is he who appears as the finite Soul and the phenomenal world.” And the fourteenth century Christian mystic, Julian of Norwich, wrote “The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything.” And the Hermetic writings, probably written by a third century Greek mystic, tell us “Say no longer that God is invisible. Do no speak thus, for what is more manifest than God?… That is the miraculous power of God, to show Himself through all beings.” The Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, who lived in the sixth century B. C., wrote “All things are one. In the One, above and below are the same.” Or as Kabir put it, “Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray.”
It’s one thing to have a concept of this in our minds. It’s another to truly, fully, deeply know it in the heart. The Upanishads tell us, “This is to be understood by the heart, there is no separateness at all.” This direct, intimate knowing is what moves the true mystic to exclaim, as did the thirteenth century Christian mystic, Angela of Foligno, “The whole world is full of God!” Or as the prophet Muhammad put it in the sixth century, “Wherever you turn is God’s face.” And “Do not despise the world, for the world too is God.” And similarly, the nineteenth century Indian poet, Ghalib, wrote “This world is no more than the Beloved’s single face.”
This has been said again and again, in different ways, throughout the cultures and centuries. The Papyrus of Ani, part of the Egyptian Book of the Dead that’s more than four thousand years old: “God, Himself, is existence; He lives in all things, and lives upon all things.” The Rig Veda, a collection of Indian hymns more than three thousand years old: “All beings of the universe form, as it were, only a portion of His being; the greater part is invisible and unchangeable… He appears as all sentient and insentient beings.” The Upanishads: “Whatever lives is full of the Lord.” And “Self is everywhere, shining forth from all beings.”
Self?
Another inadequate name for the Unnamable. The first century Jewish Theologian, Philo, wrote “Everything is God’s grace. Every being in the world, and the world itself, manifests the blessings and generosity of God.” The eighth century Indian yogi, Shankara: “This universe is nothing but Brahman. See Brahman everywhere, under all circumstances, with the eye of the spirit and a tranquil heart.” The thirteenth century Christian mystic, Mechtild of Magdeburg: “The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw– and knew I saw– all things in God and God in all things.” The fourteenth century Sufi poet, Hafiz: “When I bring my heart close to any object, I always hear the Friend say, ‘Hafiz, I am Here.’” The sixteenth century Christian mystic, Saint Teresa of Avila: “At first… I did not know that God was in all things. And when He seemed to me to be so near, I thought it impossible.” The nineteenth century English poet and artist, William Blake: “Everything that lives is Holy.” Black Elk: “ We should know well that the Great Spirit is within all things, and that it is above all things as well.” And listen to Kabir: “There is a secret one inside us; the planets in all the galaxies pass through his hands like beads. That is a string of beads one should look at with luminous eyes.”
All the world is always fresh, pulsing, and shimmering with Life. Every atom is bubbling over with Essence. Everything is endlessly overflowing with Luminous Mystery. Yet we cannot see the Ocean for the waves. The thirteenth century Sufi, Mahmud Shabistari, wrote “Under the veil of every atom is hidden the ravishing beauty of the face of the Beloved!” And in the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus said of the Kingdom of Heaven “It will not come by waiting for it… Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the Earth, and men do not see it.” The thirteenth century Italian poet, Dante, agreed: “Heaven calls you and revolves around you, showing you its everlasting beauty, and your eye perceives only the passing earth.” And the seventeenth century Protestant poet, Thomas Traherne, wrote “The world is a mirror of Infinite Beauty yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty yet no man regards it.” Listen to my favorite lines from the nineteenth century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
But still I feel that His embrace
Slides down by thrills, through all things made,
Through sight and sound of every place:
As if my tender mother laid
On my shut lips her kisses’ pressure
Half-waking me at night, and said
“Who kissed you through the dark, dear guesser?”
When there is only an endless falling into the Pure Present, without the slightest effort to resist it or replace it, true seeing spontaneously arises, and everything is seen to be inside the Infinite Center of Existence. The Greek philosopher and mystic, Empedocles, said twenty-five hundred years ago, “The Nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.” And Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote “Standing on the bare ground… a mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”
That brings up a really important question. How in the hell did you memorize all these quotes?
One of the ways we can sink more deeply into the Most Real is to really listen to those who are describing it. Because these writings have helped me to fall deeper into Being, I have read them again and again. Now most of them simply come when I think of them.
Still, you must have a hell of a memory.
It certainly isn’t important to have one. There’s no need to study or remember the words of others. That’s just something that comes naturally for this personality.
You know, I was tested once for a photographic memory.
But you don’t remember the results?
I wasn’t going to say that. Okay, maybe I was. Anyway, it sounds like all these people are just looking around at the regular world, but they’re seeing a depth or a dimension to it that the rest of us just don’t see.
Right. It’s as though when we look at the ocean, most of us limit our awareness to the surface. But some people let their effortful attention relax from focusing on the surface, and that lets them take in the incredible depths that are always there. They tell us, “Don’t you see? The ocean isn’t just a flat surface, it’s actually incredibly deep and rich and beautiful and alive!” And we look again at the two dimensional surface, and recommend to them a good psychiatrist. Everything is supported by the Ocean of Essence. Everything can be a doorway to True Reality, if only we look beyond its facade, into the Infinite Depths within it. William Blake wrote “When the doors of perception are cleansed, reality is seen as it is. Infinite.” And, “He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.”
It sounds like we’re usually trying to understand Ultimate Reality or Essence or whatever as if it’s something else, way far off, but it’s actually right here, all around us.
Exactly! The nineteenth century poet, Emily Dickensen, wrote “The Infinite a sudden Guest has been assumed to be. But how can that stupendous come which never went away?” It is so close that our minds keep missing it. Any concept of Pure Being can at best be a shadow of actually experiencing it. Shadows are useful. They can direct us to the light. But they are not to be mistaken for it. Lao-tzu wrote “It can’t be grasped by the imagination.” And the sixteenth century mystic, Saint John of the Cross, said “All that the imagination can imagine and the reason conceive and understand in this life is not, and cannot be, approximate means of union with God.” The nineteenth century poet, Walt Whitman, wrote “I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least.” And Saint Augustine put it this way: God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.”
It’s good to know I’m not in danger of failing any time soon.
To the intellect, Pure Being will always be an unfathomable mystery. To the innermost heart, it will always be Home.
Well, you’d think my innermost heart would at least give my intellect a guided tour.
The mind gazes at the distant Sun, longing to understand. And all the while, the Heart within the heart yawns, stretches, and curls back up into the warmth. All right, my friend. Enough for today. See you tomorrow.