Sweetness is closer to bitterness than it is to decay, no matter how sweet it smells.

The essence of everything on earth, seen and unseen, is spiritual. On entering the invisible city my body is covered by my spirit. Who so seeks to cleave the body from the spirit, or the spirit from the body is turning his heart away from the truth. The flower and its fragrance are one; they are blind who deny the color and the image of the flower, saying that it possesses only a fragrance vibrating in the ether. They are like those, deficient in the sense of smell, to whom flowers are naught but shapes and hues without fragrance.

Everything in creation exists within you, and everything in you exists in creation. You are in borderless touch with the closest things, and, what is more, distance is not sufficient to separate you from things far away. All things from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, exist within you as equal things. In one atom are found all the elements of the earth. On drop of water contains all the secrets of the oceans. In one motion of the mind are found all the notions of all the laws of existence.

Love

Bill Martuge