Life through the Third Eye
by Adel Khozam
Trafford Publishing


"Life is a balance that never achieves equilibrium, unless one twin meets the other with their hearts embracing each other."

In Eastern philosophy, the third eye is associated with intuition, wisdom, and identity and makes possible the union of opposites, allowing us to master the duality of the mind. Khozam, an accomplished poet from Dubai, describes a physical journey into the abstract concepts of polarity and introduces us to the fourth eye: the heart, which guides us toward the path of salvation.

The main characters—the narrator, the wise man, and the poet—travel over land and sea, from the East to America and back again. No mythical journey, their very real encounters with generals, sea captains, spiritual leaders, and others provide page after page of universal truths written in the riddle of paradox. Evil leaders contain good; poverty cannot exist without bounty; brave men without fear lack courage; sweetness is present in the bitterness of starvation; and freedom is an act, not a concept. The poet ends each chapter with verse that sums the preceding prose. What a joy to find a book where the poem is first explained by prose! Beauties include: “Love is the sail, and we are each other’s ships of salvation.”; “fear is only the sister of death”; and “...the tendons of your soul have been severed.”

The plot of the book is to encourage thought about the necessary tensions of life’s universal paradoxes, not to explain them, but to illustrate that no events occur in isolation and without consequence, and to emphasize that actions sourced from the heart bespeak a “holistic universal awareness.” Deep lessons are conveyed in this long, stylized narrative of wise man, poet, and narrator on an epic journey with other humans, all walking and talking paradoxes. Keep this book by your bedside and dip slowly and luxuriously into the polarity of day and night, connected by the silvery moon of consciousness.

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