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RE: 42 Sayings of Mine Just Published in a Spiritual Journal

in #poetry7 years ago

Wow, what an honour to be published in that journal. Congrats.
Aphorism as a meeting ground, I like that. But which is heaven and which is hell... poetry or philosophy? Thankfully ‘Abdu’l-Bahá explains this should only be understood symbolically...

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Thank you, for reading and for your kind encouragement. I, especially, appreciate the journals inclusive approach to faith.

Aphorisms, as I understand them, are what is worth quoting from the soul’s dialogue with itself. Stripped as they are, down to essences, I like to think they are capable of reaching another soul, directly, intravenously :)

All art is surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril warns Oscar Wilde. Which is to suggest that there’s heaven and hell in both poetry and philosophy...