I

Tuco began the book¹ with chapter 8 -
Love Is What's Left Over When Falling In Love Fades Away.
And continued to chapter 9 - Earth's Crammed with Heaven.

He'd watched an NPR program with his mom that morning
where Dyer was talking about "the source" and our open connection to it.
And how we tend to disconnect from it, get lost in our head
rather than staying in our heart.

As he listened, he felt the tug, the nudge by that which
he'd experienced before. That which is infinite and eternal
had visited with him at a low point in his life,
a time when everything was breaking.

Without knowing it, Tuco had retreated from his heart back into his head.
But the tug was real and brought him back to the source.
"Lovingness is a feature of your natural state,
and your ego isn't part of that state.
Ego dominates because you've separated yourself from your God-self,
the loving self that came here from a place of
Perfectly Divine unconditional love.
You've carried this ego idea of your own self-importance,
your need to be right, for so long that you've deluded yourself
into believing that the ego-self is who you are."¹

The tug felt as he watched the show brought him to buy the book
and begin reading chapter 8. And then to read chapter 9.

While he knew he was still in the desert of his head,
he, once more, felt the draw of the sea that is the heart and linked to source.

II

There rests on the floor of the sea an open chest
filled with treasures
that perish if brought to the surface.

We must dive for them
again
and again.
Glimpse
and cherish the memory of the glimpse.

Meanwhile the heart cracks open to what is real -
that which is love
and heaven.
And Source of all things admired by the heart,
valued by it.

III

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
And daub their natural faces unaware
More and more, from the first similitude.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Tuco loves wild blackberries
but he knows that each bush is afire as well.
He rides through valleys and foothills
watching the glimmering of Source everywhere.

He feels blessed in this world of not-one, not-two
that he has felt the link between Source and Self
that makes "not one, not two" so real.

His heart sings blessings to that which is
infinite and eternal.