It is very like the way spring delicately steps into our fields, allotments and cities, or is glimpsed now here and there, until one day we know it will stay. The day will come when, like rain falling on parched land, like light shading in through utter darkness, like life slowly returning to a stricken land, you will find a wonderful awareness warming your soul. It is the moment when you know for sure that the invisible, unimaginable, universal energy of the cosmos — is LOVE.

From Daniel O'Leary's reflection on dying —Tui Motu Magazine. Issue 235 March 2019: 19

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