THE SUN NEVER SAYS Even After All this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me.” Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the Who… - Hafez

I have enough of loss, enough of gain.

May these poems help reveal the Truth Of God’s Divine Playfulness and Light And His Sublime Intimacy with us.

The recurring number forty, for example, might not be meant literally. In spiritual literature, “forty” is often used to indicate a term of learning or change, such as the “forty days and forty nights” of Noah’s Flood. Forty is also called “the number of perseverance,” marking a period of growth through testing, trial and purification. After the exodus from Egypt, the Israelites endured “forty years of wandering” in the wilderness before they were ready to enter the Promised Land. Jesus, following the ancient practice of the prophets, went into the desert for a great seclusion of forty days, which he described as a period of purification and preparation for the next stage of his work. The Buddha attained final enlightenment after forty days of continuous meditation. One can find many examples, East and West.