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The Alchemist’s Inner Smile  Email
The “inner smile” is an expression that came to me when I found a simple Way of being my deepest self no matter how many pressures I was facing. I felt as if I was standing in the center of a cyclone, with the winds of circumstance wheeling around me. Even while my body or mind moved, something inside me was absolutely still—and blissfully smiling.

I called it the inner smile because I felt as if every cell of my being was acknowledged and happy. It was not a mystical experience of consciously experiencing “death” by going into light, but of bringing light into my body. It was the birth and mirth of alchemy: the realization that after we discover our spiritual nature, we can end the distinction between spirit and matter.

Ascending bubbles of bliss floating up from below,
bringing Everything to the surface.

I later discovered that the ancient Chinese Taoists used the same phrase “inner smile” as a key to unlock immortality.

The inner smile is the open Heart—uplifting energy.
It is the pull from above—always guiding patiently.

No need to study ancient texts
nor read long commentaries.
Just embrace the smile within
and you shall touch love’s own design.

Wisdom shall become your own.
What you have and want are one.
Your every whim a harmonious law—
the perfectly balanced midnight song.

So stay at home in this special place:
garden of tranquillity.
Walk all the day light and free.
Kiss a flower, hug a tree.
 
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