All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
— J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
Even if you remain seemingly lost in the shadows—having vainly pursued the mythical Garden of Eden, unsuccessfully battled the dangerous Minotaur in the labyrinth of your own mind, left unfinished the heroic journey towards healing, or wandered aimlessly through the dark, materialistic kingdoms of the modern world—there still is profound hope. To feel insane in an insane world, to be a stranger in a strange land, is the true new normal for untold millions of people presently wandering upon the face of this troubled planet. We are infinite beings, yet we find ourselves trapped in a localized loop of materialistic understandings and cultural conditioning. How we choose to navigate this collective madness determines whether we remain imprisoned in our historical trauma or eventually resonate with the unlimited bandwidth of the universe, where ultimate freedom and pure consciousness are accessible.
Blaming others for where we are, or for the blockages in our own spirit, only holds us back. Still, it is often the knee-jerk reaction of an unready mind—one that has not yet taken the necessary steps to rewire its perceptions and write a better, healthier chapter in the grand narrative of existence. Mass hypnosis, oppression, mental illness, addiction, and their most destructive results—violence and self-annihilation—have long plagued human consciousness. Our drift from a state of natural balance begins with a deep loss of vital energy: self-esteem fades, mutual respect erodes, personal meaning dwindles, and clarity vanishes. This confusion inevitably calcifies into depression, alienation, isolation, anxiety, despair, and deep loneliness.
Addiction and alcoholism become acts of repression against the self, while suicide and murder are the ultimate oppressive forces that appear to a troubled mind as misguided but seemingly logical choices. These are desperate protests from those suffering the severe effects of systemic imbalance. They are tragic acts that harm the self, loved ones, and the broader community, cutting off any connection to Life’s deeper source.
Tapping the Unlimited Bandwidth
Here, the central idea of our journey—An Electrician’s Guide to Our Universe, and Life, Love, and Death Upon Its Unlimited Bandwidth—comes into sharp, culminating focus as we reach this final chapter. Throughout the book, we have looked at how language shapes collective consciousness, how the narrative self clumsily controls the arc of one’s life, and how enlightenment comes from letting go of unconscious and unnecessary resistance to become a purer channel for truth. We have seen that the universe runs on a limitless bandwidth of consciousness, an endless range of frequencies from the heavy pull of fear and trauma to the highest vibrations of pure, non-dual Love.
Each of us is the architect of our own soul. Our bodies and minds are sophisticated vessels designed to interface with the infinite energy of the cosmos. However, when we cling to rigid, trauma-bonded narratives, or when we remain tethered to the patriarchal, capitalist, and dogmatically religious structures of the modern age, we introduce massive resistance into our spiritual lives. We build up psychological static. We experience agonizing emotional fluctuations. We suffer.
Yet, as we stand at the precipice of this awakening, a crucial distinction must be made. The personal story itself is not the enemy. Narrative is a fundamental, beautiful architecture of human experience. The true problem lies in the story that is embedded in trauma, the narrative forged in the dark absence of awareness regarding our cosmic connection. We can possess absolute truth, maintain a profound cosmic connection, and still hold a personal story to support it, without any inherent conflict. Our story, when cleansed of its trauma-bonded conditioning and liberated from the illusion of separation, becomes a localized, poetic expression of the infinite.
Healing, therefore, is not about acquiring new beliefs or erasing our biography into an amnesiac void; it is about stripping back the excess insulation of our cultural conditioning to expose where to make the healthiest connections. It is about connecting ourselves directly into the unlimited bandwidth of the present moment, allowing the high-fidelity energy of Life to flow through us unobstructed, so that our personal narrative becomes a conscious tool rather than an unconscious tyrant.
The Empty Promises of Christian Religious Conditioning
The common, self-proclaimed religious individual often finds it far more comfortable to worship the figure of Jesus than to undertake the arduous journey of knowing the ultimate truth. To place an idol on a pedestal requires mere devotion, whereas seeking profound truth demands a radical unmasking of the self and a willingness to question the very foundations of one’s beliefs.
Yet, true spiritual devotion transcends hollow rituals. Your love can, and perhaps should, be channeled toward the very souls the historical Christ sought to uplift. This means extending genuine empathy to the immigrant, the destitute, the downtrodden, and the meek. It involves recognizing the divine spark within the tax collector, the good Samaritan, the fallen woman, the ostracized leper, the grieving, and the repentant thief on the cross.
To love in this manner is to rebel against the sterile dogmas that often masquerade as faith. It requires us to strip away the theological scaffolding and encounter humanity in its most raw, vulnerable state. When we embrace the outcasts and the marginalized, we participate in a living philosophy, transforming abstract scripture into breathing compassion and fostering our own spiritual awakening.
Unfortunately, society rarely rewards such profound introspection or radical empathy. The conditioned mind, heavily shaped by a culture that prioritizes conformity over awakening, instinctively elevates that which reinforces its own illusions. We are constantly bombarded by superficial narratives that thrust into our awareness only the voices that validate the world’s errant ways, drowning out the quiet call for deeper understanding.
The Mechanics of Suffering and Surrender
Substance abuse, religious extremism, fatalism, nihilism, and violence can seem like the last resorts for those who feel they have run out of options and whose inner reserves have been severely attenuated. Our society keeps churning out addicts, alcoholics, those struggling with mental illness, propagandists, criminals, and the countless victims left in their wake. This cycle only worsens as political division is stoked, the ultra-wealthy tighten their grip, oppression against the marginalized persists, and religious tribalism spreads. I have lost far too many friends and family who, hoping for a better tomorrow, insulated themselves from difficult truths with destructive ideologies, substances, and alcohol until they finally lost all connection with their vast potentials.
Those who passively wait for the better day to happen, who place their trust in some unknown savior without consciously working towards their own awakening, are engaged in purely wishful thinking. My own “wait for a better day” has borne great fruits, but the fruit was not acquired passively. I did not wait for the outer conditions of the world to improve. I first had to confront my own suffering, the sources within my mind, memory, and heart that were pushing me toward self-annihilation. As the framework of the 12 Steps reveals, admitting powerlessness over our egoic conditioning is the first movement toward a higher consciousness. Suffering need not lead to death for those who choose to awaken.
Life can be an excruciatingly humbling experience. Those blessed few who stop resisting life and develop the capacity to accept “defeat” are the ones most receptive to true healing. It is when our egoic framework collapses that we become the most open to life-affirming change. After accepting the grace innate within the willingness to change, we can finally accept personal responsibility for what we put out into the world. We learn that our willingness to alter our attitudes and behaviors can become our true “higher power.”
When our goal has finally been clearly seen, we can each forge our own unique path toward it. The trail that each of us blazes is as vital as any path forged by any prophet, saint, or savior. It is only the ego, or the egos of hero-worshippers trapped in historical religions, who have not yet realized their own highest truth, that would dictate otherwise.
To make real changes, the drive had to come from deep within me. I didn’t transform my life because my family, my minister, my boss, or political leaders pushed me to do it. I had to start valuing myself in a new way. I realized that past wounds had made me devalue my life, and my actions were hurting me, others, animals, and even the planet’s sustainability. I saw my behavior as part of a larger systemic madness. I began seeking a higher resonance to rise above the chaos and noise in my mind.
Bringing healing to a situation is about recognizing where the connection to our true nature is faulty and accepting where we can improve our presence right now, in this moment. Positive change follows the heart’s intentions, provided the heart is clear. If it is a true desire from the heart, never stop seeking that which seems unattainable, for it is the heart itself seeking its own highest truth. And the power of our heart may be infinite.
Please, do not stop until Life’s Miracle reveals Itself to you.
Dying to the Old Paradigm
Built right into the very fabric of life is death itself. There are trillions of cells within our human bodies constantly dying off and being replaced so that we can continue to live and even evolve. So too must all of our old thoughts, our outdated narrative identities, die off. They must be replaced by newer, more vibrant creations if we are to grow. Those who refuse to do the work to shed the old ways, the incomplete and inaccurate ways of perceiving reality, will remain spiritually impoverished, highly susceptible to the ravages of disease, aging, and the deterioration of mind and body.
While toxic male energy has left deep marks on the collective fabric of our modern world, there are still bright threads of hope woven through it. Many forms of mental distress can be healed without a lifetime of therapy or medication if we recognize that, at the core, they stem from ingrained thoughts, emotions, and behaviors shaped by our lifelong, often unconscious responses to personal, family, cultural, and intergenerational trauma.
Insight changes attitudes. Insight changes behaviors. Insight changes lives. To change my world, I first had to rewire my perceptions through meditation, and by making amends to all those I had harmed through my unconscious behavioral and attitudinal short-circuits.
I continue to die daily to all that is not aligned with my true nature. I do not need pills or philosophical dogmas to serve as unfulfilling replacements for life’s inherent goodness. I now see the good that is truly good, recognizing the illusions of self that the world demands as daily prayer offerings for its conditional acceptance. While unconscious, the world preys upon us while we pray to some unknown God or power to protect us, not realizing that we can cut the marionette strings and just say NO to the oppression and control of our corrupted world.
Though I missed out on my childhood dream of becoming a space traveler to “get off this fucking rock,” I found a new dream to live for. This “rock” shifted from feeling like a living hell to becoming a peaceful paradise, where I journeyed as a conscious traveler through the limitless realms of inner space—Consciousness itself. My spiritual launchpad simply waited for me to release control and be propelled into the transformative, healing potential of the universe’s infinite bandwidth. I have taken on the golden wings of the spiritual phoenix, soaring high above and beyond the ashes of a nearly burnt-out life.
Navigating the Frequencies of the Modern World
My spirit now takes flight daily, unencumbered by religious conditioning, superstition, or judgment. Love and acceptance of myself and all others—including all animal life—now unfold within me as my primary, life-affirming motivation. To remain healthy, we must be willing to confront the toxic elements of our society, addressing the antagonistic forces still operating under the chaotic influence of the collective swamp of humanity’s consciousness.
Always challenge the prevailing attitudes of those in power, whether they’re politicians, corporate bosses, pop-psychology gurus, or religious leaders. Healthy skepticism is a key defense when organizations try to push people into conforming to narrow beliefs. If your bullshit detector goes off, let your voice be inspired by its intuition and knowledge, and speak truth to those oppressive powers. Don’t just sit by when you see injustice happen. Staying silent only helps the oppressors, who will twist and interpret your quiet into support for their actions. They thrive on the silence of the masses—and to the oligarchs and fascists, we’re all just sheep waiting to be herded. Do not join their conspiracy of silence.
Taking dominion over the world, destroying its wildlife, forests, rivers, and oceans, was never part of a divine plan. It was the byproduct of a worn-out patriarchal attitude that still pollutes human awareness. The greed of our ancestors and their pseudo-religions, where they were exhorted to ‘be fruitful and multiply’, has been glorified over the preservation of our planet. Politicians and corporate leaders use our capitalistic economic system to pillage the Earth. The destruction is visible daily in the attitudes of corrupt leaders who promote environmental ruin and incite hatred between people.
The closer I get to the creator of all creation, the more anonymous I have become. My story becomes less about the narrative “me” and more about the universal truth of life. Your world awaits the sovereign King or Queen within you. You only need to pick up your unique crown of truth and wear it with integrity and love. You will find that the kingdom you now rule has the righteousness and love of the sacred as its guiding principles.
Take off those debasing MAGA hats of political tribalism and the doctrines of the anti-Christ and Christian Nationalism and throw them in the dumpster; the corruption of thought they represent exists at a frequency far below your real nature.
The Sacred Science of Anger and Forgiveness
Healthy anger at people, situations, corrupt politicians, and abusive family members is not only acceptable; it is required for honoring the truth of the moment, education of the unilluminated, and retaining energetic integrity. Do not follow those who claim all anger is hatred. Anger becomes dangerous only when it arises from tribal instinct, memory, and cultural conditioning rather than the raw truth of the present moment.
Institutionalized hatred arises from memory and emotional immaturity, stoked by leaders with evil agendas. It is the source of racism, war, and cultural insanity. The insight gained through mindful, non-judgmental self-examination is our clue to escaping the confusing labyrinth of the mind. The expression of Love INCLUDES the conscious expression of anger when appropriate. Those who can consciously and skillfully express anger are the game-changers for our age. Healthy anger results in healthy change, and no social movements are a success without it.
I remain deeply concerned about the unaware ignorance prevalent in our society, including within institutionalized religion. Using rigid religious dogma to access the truth of Life is like using a broken-down vehicle with an outdated map to navigate the cosmos. Mysticism is the true core of all religion, and a direct connection with truth eliminates the cultural imperative to believe others’ often misguided interpretations. Each of us is a mystic once we shed the oppressive energies of our conditioning.
What is the difference between the “mind of God” and the “mind of man”? That is for you to discover on the unlimited bandwidth of your own consciousness.
The experience of enlightenment promotes love for all people while requiring no restrictive dogma for its support. Yet, traditional religions often move in tight circles, threatened by those outside of its tribe, and viewing those who seek non-religious spiritual enlightenment with suspicion, while often persecuting them. History is replete with the exile and/or executions of many innocents done in the name of truth and the religious understanding of the day.
Raising Our Voice Amidst a Conspiracy of Silence
There’s a quietness that unnerves the soul—not the comforting silence of dawn or the meditative stillness of a quiet mind, but the heavy, oppressive kind. It is the silence of complicity, the silence of fear, the silence that enables falsehood to tighten its grip around truth until it suffocates. As individuals, and as a society, we often find ourselves trapped in this conspiracy of silence, either as unwilling participants or passive bystanders. The time has come to disrupt this silence, to act on the disquiet in our hearts. It begins with simple, powerful steps:
Know the truth.
Speak the truth.
Be the truth.
Every day, the world serves us headlines, opinions, and curated narratives wrapped in the illusion of objective truth. Social media feeds hum with declarations and misinformation, blending seamlessly until we lose sight of what is real. But this is not an accidental descent; it is a carefully constructed silence. Voices that dare to challenge the dominant narrative are too often drowned out by the cacophony of indifference or hostility.
Does this happen because truth is not readily visible? Hardly. It happens because grappling with truth is uncomfortable; it demands response, change, and action. To acknowledge the cracks in the stories we’re sold is to volunteer for the heavy work of reconstruction.
We must first confront this discomfort. To seek truth is to enter the wilderness, to strip away the familiar comfort of agreeing voices until only the raw, unfiltered essence of reality remains. It is a deeply personal act, but make no mistake, it is also a deeply powerful one. Truth is not always obvious, yet it always exists. Like a buried seed, it waits patiently beneath our assumptions, our traditions, and our fears. But uncovering it requires us to ask questions that are inconvenient, even dangerous.
Why has the narrative unfolded this way?
Who benefits from the silence?
Who is left to suffer in the absence of truth?
Knowing the truth is not merely about intellectual curiosity; it is about dismantling ignorance. It’s about peeling back layers of bias and conditioning to uncover the reality that often hides in plain sight. It doesn’t mean you’ll find answers with ease. Truth resists simplicity. But the effort alone turns ignorance into awareness, indifference into curiosity.
The moment you’ve seen truth; it is no longer yours to keep hidden. Words, once shaped by reality, have the power to shatter the most oppressive silences. Speaking the truth transforms it from a private understanding into a communal force. This is why truth-telling is both revolutionary and frightening.
Yet, people hesitate. Fear whispers that the backlash will be too overwhelming, that speaking out will invite isolation. And often, it does. But the alternative is far worse. When the truth is silenced, entire societies begin to rot in the darkness left behind. This is your challenge. To speak against the tidal force of conditioned silence is not an act of recklessness but of courage. Question the narratives all too easily accepted. Say the things others are too afraid to say. Not with arrogance or malice, but with the quiet power of conviction that refuses to back down.
Here lies the hardest step of all. To “be the truth” is more than just knowing or saying what is right. It is action. It is aligning what you believe with how you live. Your every decision, your every relationship, your every interaction becomes an embodiment of the truth you have uncovered.
And it won’t be perfect. You will falter. We are all flawed, all vulnerable to contradiction. But striving to live by the truth you claim is what transforms the personal into the collective. It inspires others not through lectures, but through example. Your actions resonate more powerfully than mere words could.
We tell ourselves that silence is harmless, that staying quiet keeps the peace. But in reality, silence is rarely neutral. It protects lies, enabling injustice to persist unchallenged. It is in the fertile soil of silence that oppression grows. Breaking the silence means taking a stand, even when it’s easier to sit quietly. It means reshaping the culture around you, creating ripples of change that may seem small in the moment but can grow into waves over time. It starts with you.
Know the truth.
Speak the truth.
Be the truth.
The Illusion of Separation and the Healing Power of Unity
This book has represented a small portion of my journey toward healing. I found a most difficult, but ultimately fulfilling, path to direct me to our long-lost home.
To navigate the labyrinth of human existence was, and continues to be, to confront the persistent illusions that bound me—the weight of historical conditioning, the relentless demands of a performance-driven culture, and the fragmented lens through which I typically perceived reality. Yet, beneath this clamor I found a profound stillness, an invitation to strip away the artifice of my constructed identity and reorient my consciousness toward the deepest truths of being. As I probed the architecture of existence, a transformative paradigm emerged, anchored in three fundamental realizations that challenge conventional understanding and opened the gateway to absolute integration:
First, there is a loving foundation to our universe; the closest earthly equivalent is a human mother loving her newborn child. This profound cosmic embrace operates as the silent architecture of existence, nurturing all forms of life without condition. By recognizing this primordial compassion, we can begin to trust the natural, unfolding rhythm of our own spiritual journeys.
Second, there is a way to view the world without the encumbrance of the past, a state that possesses profound healing capacity generated through the full integration of the interconnected nature of reality through perception itself. When we strip away the filters of our conditioned history, we witness the present moment in its pure, unadulterated form. This lucid observation mends fractured states of mind, and can even heal a broken body. We develop the capacity to see our real unlimited self in everything, and not through the restrictive lens offered by the ego.
Third, as we answer the call to let go
- of the controls of the past,
- of the cultural expectations to constantly perform,
- of the cultural and religious directives to be solely guided by their oft-times errant teachings,
- of our traumatic wounding,
- of our limiting judgments against life, our self, or one another,
and seek for the real teacher within us all, we can sink into the absolute still point at the center of our being, This is the sacred sanctuary where time-based thoughts dissolve and duality cease to be real. In this boundless quiet, the illusion of separation vanishes entirely, awakening us to the reality that we are seamlessly interwoven into the cosmos’s infinite web.
We have found the pathless path to our ultimate liberation.
We each must find our unique direction, and learn how to think, feel, and act without shame while engaging with others in as non-controlling, non-judgmental manners as we can. We cannot do this life alone, nor would I want any of us to have to. We are here to support and love each other as we travel our challenging evolutionary paths.
Each moment is either a new beginning or a continuation of a painful past. I continue to be willing to travel new paths of consciousness, never becoming too attached to any particular memory or teacher, as I work out my own salvation. When I let go of time-based thoughts and expectations, I truly trust the life force that always supports all of us in the present moment.
While incarnated in human form and beholden to conceptual reality, all that we will ever see is projections of our verbally constructed sense of self. The most important question for each day is,
“How will I see myself today?”
That question will be our guide until the Sacred Silence sees with us, through us, and as us.
Each person I meet is either one of the infinite manifestations of the divine, deserving ultimate respect and love, or they become just another dead illusion trapped within the conditioned mind. Our destiny is to be resurrected from that seemingly ubiquitous graveyard that still holds most of humanity.
The Zen Buddhists have this one perfectly covered with their expression “the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon”. Why would anyone settle for secondhand verbal pointers when we can do our own moon walk? Sucking meaning from someone else’s philosophy will never replace the direct, personal experience of the deepest truth. Be vigilant with the internalized images of people and things; desire for the image distorts the world, playing to a fragmented self that obsessively seeks pleasure while engaging in pain avoidance behavior.
Lust, greed, selfishness, and hatred all play to the structure of individualized and fragmented mental imagery. Seeing each other through wholeness—giving forgiveness whenever necessary—allows for right action and healing in a broken world. The ultimate truth is that the separate “you” cannot be real in any ultimate sense. In the eyes of the cosmos, there is only one self, one love, one existence with an infinitude of manifestations. Finding this connecting link is the journey into wholeness our human race must undertake to survive. When we realize that our personal stories, once healed from the darkness of trauma, are simply unique facets reflecting the same eternal light, the illusion of separation dissolves.
Gaia, Technology, and the Return to Sacred Silence
The quickest way to prepare for the new world order is to step outside your house, away from the computer and social media, and get acquainted with the great outdoors. We are not connected to our highest truth through our digital technology. In fact, our media-related technology often acts to block access to a healthy connection, separating us from the quiet state of being where the universe’s true resonance can be received. There is no sacred silence accessible by our technology, yet through righteous use of it we can be redirected towards sources of wisdom and truth that affirms and supports our intentions.
Technology is only a tool, yet it has become a false religion. The world exists in a state of digital hypnosis. We must pull our eyes off our phone displays and engage the person next to us. Someday, the world will wake up and realize that all our technology is merely a crude symbol and a short-term replacement for the true, limitless power we all have access to within our own consciousness.
Our mother Earth, Gaia, is a living being. The face of the divine is seen clearly on the mountains, in the forests, on the petals of the flowers, and on the faces of all animals once the detritus of human misunderstanding is moved aside. As Thich Nhat Hanh noted, we need a real awakening to realize that our consciousness is the consciousness of the Earth.
Can You Hear Me Now?
When I was nearly four years old and finally learned how to talk, my father often asked:
“Will that boy ever run out of things to talk about?” and
“Bruce, would you please shut up!”
Once I started talking, I proved that I had the capacity for speech, and a lot of it. Both of my parents wondered, at times, if I would ever stop. Once a person touches Consciousness, Infinity is the limit to our potential. Yet, my own voice disappeared after many years of oppression and repression. The long-term oppressive effects of the conspiracy of silence that plagues so many will continue to limit our potential to experience happiness, longevity, and love for life. That certainly was the case for my life, which was nearly terminated at thirty years of age.
I am humbled and amazed by both the miracle eternally embedded in Sacred Silence, as well as its bridge to human consciousness through the Word. May the Word take a form unique to each of us in all of our lives and lift all of us together into a unity of love, thought, action, and a new shared story of world healing and wholeness. May the Word spontaneously arise from our Sacred Silence, and not from the chaos of our troubled past.
As I contemplate the entirety of my life, I see a simple truth arising from the complexities of the details. Silence born of ignorance and oppression brings suffering and disease. Silence born of healing brings joy and love into the world. This same Silence brings forth the capacity to listen with the heart for the deepest meaning embedded within all of Life, in all of its infinitude of forms, and return the dignity back to each sacred manifestation of life.
Is anybody really listening to each other?
Those who have learned how to really listen, hear the voice of truth. And we finally get to live in the creation that Love provides for us all, when we accept Love’s vision as our own.
Only a curious few will stumble upon this reflection and truly grasp its weight, but this scarcity is no surprise. The path of genuine spiritual discovery has always been sparsely populated, reserved for those willing to wander beyond the safety of the crowd. Nevertheless, I remain entirely undeterred in my pursuit of peeling back these layers of illusion. I am a writer, after all, and words are the instruments through which I carve out the truth.
And no, to the oppressive forces of the past, I will never shut up.
Can you hear my voice now?
We all have had problems listening to each other. We all have had problems listening to ourselves. Yet, our stories must be told, and we must listen to the others’ stories, with respect and compassion for ourselves, and for all others. We need not agree with their stories, however.
Every good story has an ending. And so do our bad stories.
What value is a story, if it is never told?
What value is love, if it is never shared?
What is the value of speaking, if nobody is even listening?
What is the value of writing, if there is nobody left to read?
We all have infinite value, whether it is ever recognized by another or not. Discover, enjoy, and celebrate Infinity, rather than the limitations thrust upon us by the deafness of our culture and of our families of origin.
Sing your song, like your life depended on it, because it does! All of our lives depend upon our own and each other’s stories. Those who will not listen to our story, and in turn, will not share their story with us, may be stuck in the story of repression and oppression. Often, the silent are still unconscious participants in the Conspiracy of Silence. They are stick figures in other people’s dreams until they flesh themselves out with a life-affirming narrative.
The sun shines, and the artist interprets its light upon the beautiful landscape, and paints a classic piece of art. The wolf howls in the lonely, cold, snow-covered wilderness, and, miraculously, another wolf a great distance away howls back at him, reassuring both that each other is still there. The bird sings alone in the forest, yet a hiker stops for a moment, listens, and her heart begins to sing and soar with the bird. The divorced and lonely man sings in the shower, and the salesman at the door hears him, and is so impressed by the man’s voice that he encourages him to try out for a local band. A man stumbles upon the miracle of silence within his being, and a resultant bridge of words subsequently connects this sacred silence to his latest writings, creating books, poetry, and healing balms for all.
As I look at my life’s history, I bear witness to Love and its healing Mystery. I have penetrated the conspiracy of silence. My miracle experiment continues in earnest.
My world can never be the same.
How about yours?
Blessed Longing, by Goethe (Translated by John O’Donohue)
Tell no one else, only the wise
For the crowd will sneer at one I wish to praise what is fully alive,
What longs to flame toward death.
When the calm enfolds the love-nights
That created you, where you have created
A feeling from the Unknown steals over you
While the tranquil candle burns.
You remain no longer caught In the penumbral gloom
You are stirred and new, you desire To soar to higher creativity.
No distance makes you ambivalent.
You come on wings, enchanted In such hunger for light, you
Become the butterfly burnt to nothing.
So long as you have not lived this:
To die is to become new,
