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FOREWORD The modern Indian sage Ramana Maharshi once defined a genuine seeker as someone who has “a constant and passionate longing to break free from life's sorrow—not by running away from it, but by growing beyond his mind and by experiencing in himself the reality of the Self, which knows neither birth nor death." Longing is, for most of us, an essential stage in spiritual life. But it is only a stage, an arrow that points inward, to the experience of God. It is not the experience itself, just as seeking is not finding, although we must seek in order to find. And if we seek the kingdom of heaven anywhere else (“It is here!”; “It is there!”), how can we realize that it is truly here? *Reality and perfection," Spinoza said, “are synonymous.” This anthology and its companion volume, The Enlightened Heart, collect the poetry and prose not of longing but of fulfillment. The men and women who speak to us from these pages have each, to a greater or lesser extent, entered the kingdom of heaven. In order to tell us about what is unknown and unknowable, they have to speak in terms of the known. That is why metaphorical language is so indispensable, and why the distinction between poetry

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Author

Stephen Mitchell (editor)

Publisher

Harper Collins Publishers

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060165284

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.29 / 5 (274 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14