A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.

The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces.

I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars.

The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.