Peasant's life proves his beliefs are as gold

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: September 15, 2007| Author: Jerry Johnston Deseret Morning News | Copyright information

If you've seen the Clint Eastwood movie "Pale Rider," you know that sometimes a scraggly old prospector who stays with it can actually stumble across a clump of gold.

That happened to me over the weekend.

While nosing around in some old volumes of Mexican literature, I came across a little book by Amado Nervo called "Plenitude." For the spiritually minded, the book is a lost gold mine waiting to be explored. It's a rare book.

It shouldn't be.

Nervo's insights are wh...

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