This is the human condition. There are moments when this Truth breaks through, moments when the childhood intuition becomes the only blazing Reality there is, and every other conception is seen for the illusion it is. Emerging into the bright sunlight in the late morning light, that September day, the man now emptied and pale, looks around blinking. For a moment, a singular instant, all the world , including his own body, becomes transparent and on Fire, with a Radiant Presence which he will later call Love. All that was essential in the little boy's short life, his courage and trust, the love and care he received is taken with him into the heart of the Father.
Nothing is lost.
In another moment the world once again takes its seeming solid shape, but all is changed within the man. He has seen the opening to knowing his heart as his home and his life as Divine Love. He, like all humankind, in big and small ways must confront the dissolution of all images, forms, and substitutes, and find his refuge alone in the Radiant Life from which he and all things arise each moment of existence. He will knit into words this Reality with his intellect, but he can only live and experience this practice in and from the heart, the center of his being. Feb. 4- Shalom Prayer Center, Mt. Angel Oregon.