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From the section called: TIMEPIECE>>>>>>>"Is this life, to grasp joy only to fear its escape? The price of happiness is the risk of losing it.">>>>>>>"How quickly the fabric of our lives unravels. We weave together protective tapestries of assumption and false belief that are torn to shreds beneath the malevolent claws of reality...Grief is a merciless schoolmarm.">>>>>>>>"...I once heard it preached that pain is the currency of salvation. If it is so, surely we have bought heaven.">>>>>>>
THE LOCKET: (contains the favorite diary entries of the author)>>>>>>>"Believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.">>>>>>>>[[NOTE: The metaphor of our being an arrow from the bow of God symbolizes our journey from God back to God in the gnostic treatise, THE ROBE OF GLORY, regarding the hymn of the soul, which is also given in brief summary by Jesus, himself, in THE AQUARIAN GOSPEL OF JESUS the CHRIST (chapter 110.)
THE LETTER: (on the death of the author's wife, MaryAnne)>>>Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it? If so, I can not have her back, to relieve my heart at the expense of hers.>>>>>>>"It has been a mistake to live my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backward and still hold its reins.">>>>>>>>
THE LOOKING GLASS: (Who are we, really?)>>>>>>>"I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.">>>>>>>>"The greatest shackles we bear in this life are those forged by our own fears.">>>>>>>"Sometimes it seems what we should desire most is not to desire." [[NOTE: This is precisely the thinking of Paramahansa Yogananda, the great Hindu saint who wrote, "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI," where by emptying ourselves of the desires of below, we allow the Godhead to enter therein, bringing enlightenment and PEACE!]]>>>>>>>
LIFE'S LESSONS: ...life's greatest philosophy is not handed down in stoic texts and dusty tombs, but lived in each breath an act of human compassion. For love has always demanded sacrifice, and no greater love is there than that for which our lives are traded. [[NOTE: THE LETTER OF THE LAW KILLETH, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE; this should be noted especially by FUNDAMENTALISTS of ALL religious perswasions who kill the spirit by quoting passages of their particular Bibles, and PERHAPS, ignorant of the context thereof! It has been my experience that this happens more often than not; BY THEIR FRUITS...]]>>>>>>>"And in this great cause of spiritual evolution we are all called to be martyrs, to die each of us in the quest of a higher realm and loftier ideals, that we may know God.">>>>>>>
ON LOVE: "I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thing of starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurture and time to fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in the callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity. Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its famous skin to expose one composed of more thana just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. Agape. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding right to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time-while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next thing.">>>>>>>It is, perhaps, the greatest irony of love. That which we truly love, we must be willing to give up for its own benefit. [The author then goes on to state that he would lay down his heart for the lady under question so that she could find her dreams....This reminds me of one of my favorite movies, the classic Dickins' story, "A TALE OF TWO CITIES," where the hero - indeed - lays down his very life for the woman he loves, so she could be happy, i.e. "find her dreams."]
ON CREATIVITY: "...creative causes must be dictated by passion, and without passion we are doomed to mediocrity." [[This reminds me of the Biblical injunction: WOULDST THOU BE HOT OR COLD ~ BUT BECAUSE THOU ART LUKEWARM, I SPIT THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH.]]
ON ACTION: Gibbs sighed, then reluctantly stood. "We have been through a lot together and you always seem to come out on top. Baut I have a bad feeling about this. I grant you that what you are doing is noble in its own way, but the cost of what you are doing is too great." David shook his head. "No Gibbs. Only the cost of doing nothing is ever too great." [[NOTE: Of course, as I have indicated on this and other websites, when we find irregularities, especially in those agencies like the IRS ~ who are supposed to be protecting us (instead of "fleecing us,") to do nothing ONLY MAKES THE WEED CHOKE US UNTIL WE ARE DEAD!}}~+_+~
YES, RICHARD PAUL EVANS IS RELEVANT TO THIS VERY DAY WITH HIS WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PULSE OF LIFE!
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