"Love and understanding are things that are eternal in our lives, an answer to the problem of death, 'If I must die someday, what can I do to fulfill my desire to live?' To say love and understanding are things that are eternal, and music too, according to the Chinese grandmother, is to say 'it is these things that will carry us through the darkness of our lives and the death of our bodies to the moon of everlasting peace.' We can readily see how love and understanding and music too can carry us through the darkness of our lives. This is the 'dark light,' as we are calling it, of love and understanding and music. But can it carry us through the death of our bodies to everlasting peace?
" 'Dark light' of love and understanding can bring us to inner peace in this life inasmuch as love is letting go of fear, and understanding is letting go of certainty. For faith seeking understanding the inner life becomes the afterlife, the inner peace becomes the everlasting peace. I wrote a poem called 'Dark Light' and set it to music:
"Why is it dark at night?
— a thousand stars
are like a thousand suns!
Why is it dark before me,
If your light
Shines on my path?
I can know more
Than I can tell
Of light and darkness,
For if your eyes open,
There is light,
If your eyes close,
Then there is dark,
But light inside my heart.
"The 'light inside my heart' is the light of the inner life that becomes the afterlife. It is the inner peace that becomes the everlasting peace."
