I Think That There's A Hidden Darkness

Creation Is All Things And Us. It Is Us In Relationship With All Things. All Things, The Ones We See And The Ones We Do Not; The Whirling Galaxies And The Wild Suns, The Black Holes And The Microorganisms, The Trees And The Stars, The Fish And The Whales - The Molten Lava And The Towering Snow-capped Mountains, The Children We Give Birth To And Their Children, And Theirs, And Theirs, And Theirs.

Healthy Mysticism Praises Acts Of Letting Go, Of Being Emptied, Of Getting In Touch With The Space Inside And Expanding This Until It Merges With The Space Outside. Space Meeting Space; Empty Pouring Into Empty. Births Happen From That Encounter With Emptiness, Nothingness. . . . Let Us Not Fight Emptiness And Nothingness, But Allow It To Penetrate Us Even As We Penetrate It.

We All Share Beauty. It Strikes Us Indiscriminately. There Is No End To The Beauty For The Person Who Is Aware. Even The Cracks Between The Sidewalk Contain Geometric Patterns Of Amazing Beauty. If We Take Pictures Of Them And Blow Up The Photographs, We Realize We Walk On Beauty Every Day, Even When Things Seem Ugly Around Us.

What Is Common To All Paths That Are Spiritual Is, Of Course, The Spirit-breath, Life Energy, That Is Why All True Paths Are Essentially One Path, Because There Is Only One Spirit, One Breath, One Life, One Energy In The Universe. It Belongs To None Of Us And All Of Us. We All Share It. Spiritually Does Not Make Up Otherworldly; It Renders Us More Fully Alive.

Prayer Is Essentially About Making The Heart Strong So That Fear Cannot Penetrate There.