The heart is also the center of the commingling of the individual soul with the Soul of the World.

Immediately, a conundrum appears, for what accompanies this yearning is determination — the determination that communion will be established through words. The determination could seem ludicrous because it is precisely language and words that separate and distinguish. It is no coincidence that political boundaries have most often also been linguist

My heart, however, yearns upward to the heights. I do not know why it is so full of life that the left side of my breast swells to bursting. O where is my desire driving me? That I shall find out if I can!1 The yearning for the heights confessed by Gahmuret is not necessarily experienced as a spiritual yearning; indeed it is not for Gahmuret. Rathe

To be free means one has the power to “begin,” to create anew, which is why Christ — most moral and most free of beings — can say, “Behold, I make all things new.”

Those on the path toward the speech of the Grail, however, are called particularly to expression through the spoken word. For them, the spoken word is like the sonar soundings of whales and dolphins. Through speaking, they come to know themselves and others — and to feel known.

Parzival's first words in the story are noteworthy because they are framed as questions, and questioning is the engine of contemporary initiation. Questions form the connective tissue by which we join the world with ourselves. A question is uniquely personal; something matters, and the questioner wishes to know about something or someone. At the sa

“Since man is a Logos-being, he can radiate the light of the Word. But the Word requires at least two people. Only in this way does the human word, even the unspoken word, encounter the human understanding and shine back. That is the Logos-being's presence on earth.... The relation of the Logos-being to man is one of reciprocal indwelling — that is

The most conscientious way to honor one's father and mother is to “leave” them: to accept and understand, with gratitude, what has come through them and to take those motifs to their next level of expression.

When soul and spirit marry in the initiate-speaker, the door to the Grail castle, though still hidden, opens.