The Law of Attention by Edward Salim Michael

Author:Edward Salim Michael
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Meditation/Self-Transformation
ISBN: 9781594779206
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2010-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

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The Trace That Thoughts, Words, and Deeds Leave

The author hopes that the following experience and his humble understandings of it will be of help to the reader in better grasping the necessity to become more aware of and responsible for one’s thoughts, words, and deeds.

One clear summer night, as he was looking up at the sky besprinkled with the innumerable celestial bodies that inhabit it, and as his eyes kept roving slowly from one side to the other across the vast heavens, looking far out into infinity, he could not help but marvel and be filled with awe at the immensity of the Universe, compared to which he felt so extremely small and insignificant.

While he was thus absorbed in contemplating and in trying to penetrate the enigmatic mystery of this incredible cosmic vision—a mystery that seemed to him completely overwhelming and unfathomable—he suddenly became aware that his eyes had been attracted to an intensely luminous star, whose scintillating beauty had captivated his attention and held him so utterly spellbound that he was incapable of moving his gaze away from it for so much as an instant, nor dared he even blink or breathe for fear of losing the delicate thread of the ever-so-subtle and secret revelation that this star appeared to be making to him about the Cosmos and existence—a secret revelation arousing in him mysterious sentiments of an extraordinary inner world, pervaded with an eternal presence and vast reverential silence.

These mysterious sentiments, which he seemed to have known in some incomprehensible past but was unable to remember where and when he had experienced them, were so profoundly intense that, after some moments, they became almost too much for him to bear—and yet at the same time he realized that, from the innermost depths of himself, he was ardently yearning for this wordless revelation, and the ineffable feelings that it was evoking in his being, to remain with him and to keep inspiring in him forever these indescribable reminiscences, accompanied as they were by a curious and inexpressible inner call so strangely acute.

While he was thus plunged in this extraordinary reverie, he gradually became conscious of yet another feeling that had imperceptibly got hold of him and that was kindled by the subtlest intimation he had been secretly receiving throughout about the incredible distance that separated this star from himself (a distance that must be so inconceivably vast that it is totally impossible for the human mind to form even the least notion of it, and that left him completely baffled and dazed at the very magnitude that such a conception would have necessarily demanded of him). As he was thus lost in his reflections on this heavenly body and filled with rapture and veneration, the thought arose in him that the light of this infinitely remote star must have taken hundreds upon hundreds of millions of years to reach this planet—and that even as he was quietly engrossed in appreciating the beauty of its scintillating light, a light that

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