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Epilogue to Part I: The Early Years and Introduction to Part II: The Purgative Way
The memories which I shared in Part I: The Early Years have been with me my entire life. They are a treasure and the time that I spent making them has been an experience which strengthened me in all the difficulties of mly life. Indeed for me home is where the heart is.
To pray is to come home. How I love to come home in my imaagination to our lovely house in the country. How I love to come home to the welcome and embrace of my parents, to look at old memories stored in the places I used to freuent and thereby relive the happy times. It is as if I can shed the weary robes of a life-time of travel, put aside the hypothetical questions of what might have been and stand in sheer joy in what is.
In this space of tinmelessness, everything is as it was. The barn, the woods, the old willow tree, the grapevines all stand there wondering where I have been and I feel that with a life time of wisdom, I now can begin again. Perhaps etenity, the everlasting NOW , is somewhat like this, a place in time where one is able to chooose to be wherever one wishes with whomever one wishes and for as long as one wishes.
"Home is a country, green and serene, hidden awayin the hills; home is a meal with family around making your lonely heart thrill..Home is a field of golden corn with a dog running in through the rows; home is the smell of your favorite meal, aromas that tickle your nose. So pause for a moment in reverie great, and fill up yoursenses with home. Remember to come whenever you wish to this beautifulplace you call home".
This is waht I left when I embarked upon my life's work, whatever I imagined that to be, back in 1954. The next twenty-eight years I consider my purgative way, which according to the ancient teachings leads to the illluminative way and finally to the unitive way.
