Weightless

Diet is derived from the Greek word for ‘a way of life’. We achieve spiritual weightlessness to the extent we drop the past and forgive everyone for everything. This is how angels fly.

Eros

Spanning the iconography of world religions, angels are often depicted as having feminine forms but masculine names. The sage, wrote Lao Tzu, is two-spirited. He knows the male but keeps to the female.

Human halves made whole

In the Christian Church, marriage is a sacrament. In the kingdom of heaven, according to Jesus, we shall be “as the angels, neither marrying nor giving in marriage.” Could someone please explain this?

Bearded, New Jersey plates

One perfect summer afternoon I was blasting along an empty stretch of Montana highway when the rear tire on my motorcycle blew out. This was an unsettling experience. What did I learn?  I learned that angels don’t look like angels.

Awareness

“An actually existent fly is more important than a possibly existent angel.” Emerson’s epigraph flicks at our consciousness like an awakening stick. Two questions immediately assert themselves: Where am I? What’s around me?