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The Genuine Heart Of Sadness

Basic goodness is good because it is unconditional, or fundamental. It is there already, in the same way that heaven and earth are there already.

excerpted from
What Took You So Long?

In India, old, old stories still are told of a Hindu holy man named Narada who devoted his life to attaining the spiri­tual liberation of nirvana.

Sunbeams

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson

Sparky

I feel when he enters the building. I get out of my chair, stand in the doorway of my office in the English department. He comes around the corner. I put my hands on my hips, like a kid, and call down the hallway, “Hey, you!”

Reunion

She was the one who snuggled with my mother every night, the storyteller who was too sick to run away with her daughter and granddaughter before the SS came in the morning, and who chose instead, after tucking my mother into bed the night before, to climb the stairs of the ghetto apartment building and step off the ledge, freeing them to leave, grief-stricken, without her.

excerpted from
Untimely Meditations

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.