LEFT ALONE TO FOLLOW ITS NATURAL COURSE, CONSCIOUSNESS EBBS AND FLOWS like the tides, rises and falls like waves on the sea, rolls and tumbles like a mountain stream, wanders like a meandering river. Over the past month or so, I’ve re-read the Zhuangzi (also known as the Chuang Tzu) in two translations, one old, …
Forgotten Among the Lilies
WHAT IF WE GOT IT WRONG and the “dark night of the soul” is actually about the end of suffering? It’s become commonplace to call a painful time in life a dark night of the soul. But what if the metaphor points to the moment of breakthrough rather than to the suffering? This metaphor comes …
