The Importance of Presence

I think one of the great spiritual experiences of my life happened when I was in an elevator in New York City, checking into a hotel. It's not that we don't have to do anything. It's like we have to get on the elevator. We have to pack and get there. You know, that is the essential balance. And at the heart of the spirit, the twilight and dawn are one. All the secret colors which are hidden in the white light gather in the basket of twilight to be received into the old tenor-brae. In the Christian tradition, this is what you could call a theology of resurrection. At the heart of darkness, there isn't darkness but