To Him is Our Return

"Gandhiji once said, 'A man cannot fully live unless he has died at least once.' By the time I had disembarked from my first-class coach at Howrah Station, I had acknowledged the imperative of that great truth. To live—in my soul, in my art—I would have to cast off the appurtenances of my old life. "I gave my two suitcases to the first be

“My only ‘me’ is God.” She continues, “In my soul I see nothing but God.”

Sooner or later, there is nothing left to do but give up. And that is precisely the point, the purpose of the “dizzy spirit.” In each relinquishment, the person’s faculties are further emptied and sensitized and, more important, reliance upon God is deepened. John says God sends this “abominable spirit” not for the soul’s downfall, but to help prep

Dear heart, where do you find the courage to seek the Beloved when you know He has annihilated so many like you before? I do not care, said my heart, my only wish is to become one with the Beloved.