Alethea at Aphelion: A Book by God and Mace

By William Mace Mealer

This profound collection of life observations and musings runs the gamut frompoignant to prickly in open verses of striking, yet fluid, precision.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982042302
• ISBN13: 9780982042304
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: William Mealer Publishing
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Meet Mace Mealer

Mace Mealer's poetry has appeared in the Nonduality Highlights over 50 times, the earliest appearance in issue #480. Now Mace has written a hard cover book featuring nearly 700 of his poems. The poems read smoothly, have different flavors and tones, and get different themes across: compassion, silence, children, eternality, release, emptiness, nothing, as-is-ness, enlightenment. The volume is reminder after reminder, pointer after pointer of what is essential and important in life. Mainly this book is about being human and watching ourselves as we step through the world. You'll feel that Mace Mealer knows you slightly better than you know yourself, and that he wanted the difference to be slight. Here are a few selections: New Year Winter sky is hard and high framed by ice glistening bough wherein the wind of velvet sky does not the Heart's red flame allow. But in the houses down below beneath the shadows of the snow, in blankets that are big and small, sleep the children of us all. There the Heart burns bright and clear, to show the way for this New Year. Poet's Coin Intent is rarely free of impurities. But like the gold in our teeth, too pure is too soft to let us chew our food. With just a little hypocrisy, let us speak of wind and rain and love. Originality In the maelstrom of existence Nothing is repeated, nothing. Every grain of sand that falls through the hourglass is infinitely different than the one before. Even the smallest action is ultimately never repeated. It is easy to mistake the same for the similar. Be assured, the next thought you have, emotion you feel, action you take, will be miraculously original. Doorways Once there was an old monk who practiced his meditation by getting up early in the morning before anyone else was up and seating himself in the middle of a small doorway in the monastery where many had to pass on their way to their appointed duties. This practice greatly impeded the movement of his fellow monks as they found it necessary to leap over him to be on their way. The result being that he was often kicked in the process, not always accidentally, and therefore he was frequently covered in bruises. When the frustration of the other monks rose to a fevered pitch they voiced their complaints to the Revered Teacher of the monastery and requested that he intervene. Calling the old monk before him the Teacher asked him why he found it necessary to practice his meditation in this way. He replied, "I find that I dislike others and I am easily distracted" At this the Teacher smiled and asked the old mink to resume his practice. So Darn Cute My ego is like a little boy, I have to love him, he's so darn cute. He likes to think he's SO important. He loves toys and his sweets, and what an imagination! One day a Cowboy, the next an Indian, or an ancient learned Sage. I'm never cruel to him because he reminds me what it is to be human, but I never give him the keys to the car. A Visit Lonelineness stop

Amazing

The poems in this book are diverse, quirky, insightful, funny and overal amazing. We have sat for hours reading the wonderful thoughts. Thank you for sharing your life in poems. I already have some favorites that I have bookmarked to share with my family and friends.