Parabola Magazine

LOVE VOLUME 35 NUMBER 1 SPRING 2010

6 A MONOTHEISTIC MODEL OF LOVE Gilla Nissan
Exploring the sacred dimensions of love

12 MIRA’S LOVE Rama Devagupta
A love story for the ages: Mirabai and Lord Krishna

20 SUCH A FEELING MUST BE LOVE James Joyce
A heart-opening vision

26 DEEP LISTENING AS LOVE
A conversation with Garrison Institute fellow David Rome

40 LOVE AND MONEY Richard Smoley
The secret prices of love

46 THE LIGHT OF LOVE SHONE ON ME Helen Keller
Blind and deaf, she found a way

62 LOVE AND COMPASSION Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi
An esteemed monk on cultivating loving-kindness and compassion

78 TO TRULY LIVE THE TEACHINGS
From China, a surprising conversation with Master Minghai

84 DOES SOMETHING WITHIN US KNOW MORE THAN WE DO? James Opie
A young man awakens to the power of seeing

90 THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE Oscar Wilde
A tale of the ultimate sacrifice

FOUR NEW POEMS BY MARY OLIVER
38 PASSING THE UNWORKED FIELD
39 APRIL
60 MIST IN THE MORNING, NOTHING AROUND ME BUT SAND AND ROSES
61 IN YOUR HANDS

ARCS
56 A PARTICLE OF LOVE

EPICYCLES
32 LAYLA AND MAJNUN Nizami | Persian
Retold by Diane Wolkstein

50 THE LEGEND OF NALAGIRI Anonymous | Buddhist
Retold with commentary by Margo McLoughlin

72 THE CHOICE OF LADY RAGNELL Anonymous | English
Retold by Barbara Helen Berger

TANGENTS
100 FOR PEOPLE ON THE VERGE OF GIVING UP HOPE Richard Whittaker
A review of Jacob Needleman’s What Is God? and a conversation
with Jacob Needleman

104 DUALISTIC AND NON John Shirley
At the Science and Nonduality Conference

BOOK REVIEWS
108 THE FUTURE OF FAITH
Harvey Cox | reviewed by Bill Williams

114 IT’S UP TO OURSELVES
Jessmin and Dushka Howarth | reviewed by Jeff Zaleski

116 WATER & ITS SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE
Edited by Virginia Gray Henry-Blakemore and Elena Lloyd Siddle |
reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

BOOKS FROM THE PARABOLA FAMILY
122 THE DANCE OF SHIVA
Richard Smoley | reviewed by Tracy Cochran

124 THE LAMP
Ilan Amit | reviewed by Jeff Zaleski

128 ENDPOINT