Letter 26: Purpose
To S. A fellow theosophist once told me that he declined an offer to write a commentary on The Secret Doctrine. He turned down the offer...
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Letter 25: Dancing
To S. I just wanted to say how much I appreciate the metaphor on theosophy and the dancer in the recent Summer Solstice Spiral Path...
Letter 24: Looking Back
To A. If there is one thing I could take back in this life, I would take back that five minutes on the basketball court when I yelled at...
Letter 23: Diogenes
To A. The deepening of the inner life depends on the instantaneous recognition that we have harmed another. To take immediate...
Letter 22: The Spaceship
To A. Henry Miller was a famous writer who brought a new kind of "gritty"to American literature. I always appreciated his notion that...
Letter 21: Sisyphus
To K. A human being is not one thing at a time. We cannot make ourselves pure inwardness anymore than we can make ourselves pure...
Letter 20: A Writer
To A. I am a writer on how theosophy exists in the human consciousness. One is not "alone" along the shores of the inner self because the...
Letter 19: Orpheus
To A. When a person begins his quest he may envision it as a relationship between himself and knowledge, like there are two variables in...
Letter 18: Rumi
To B. Like Rumi, I found my shams or teacher. He stood at the top of a flight of stairs in a smelly old building in a beaten-down...
Letter 17: Antilogy
To B. Knowing oneself is actually a process of dismemberment. With each step towards self-knowledge, we cut ourselves more deeply. The...
Letter 16: Ambiguity
To B. I told my friend that I could not live in his vague amorphous world. The response of Nature was to double-down, take my hand, and...
Letter 15: Enlightenment
To B. Enlightenment is an insight into the origin of the mind as a result of a direct, unconditioned experience. It is a state of...
Letter 14: Two Worlds
To A. Plato warned that the greatest misfortune is to do something wrong. When the Central Sun gives a man its message, he must learn to...
Letter 13: Fire
To A. It is interesting to watch the fire burn everything when one has to walk away from a former life. A single spark lays waste to...
Letter 12: Myth
To A. I loved a girl and then she left. Nature gave me the opportunity to say goodbye one last time but in the back of the hearse, in a...
Letter 11: Service
To A. Our service to humanity is in the open-ness of a moment. Perhaps being at a "distance" and being "right there" are the same thing....
Letter 10: Wind
To A. The "feather in the wind" idea is a beautiful one. The divine Mother plucks out our heart, unbinds it, and carries it back into her...
Letter 9: The Sea
To A. I am not surprised if I have been quieter over the last few months. As a seven-year cycle comes to an end there is a quieter phase...
Letter 8: A Drink
To A. I have been wandering in the Universal Mind lately. I have never found God there. But perhaps Leo Tolstoy is right: God must deny...
Letter 7: Wonder Wheel
To A. We are all playing a Glass Bead Game in which the aesthetics of oneself are at stake. But the story of our lives cannot be clearly...
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