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Man reaching out to Meher Baba painting - Q&A with Max Reif

FORTY-FIVE YEARS IS JUST A START: Q&A with author Max Reif on his spiritual journey with Meher Baba

Max Reif·December 5, 2016
Max Reif is the author of Toward an Interior Sun, recently published by The Mindful Word. Below are his in-depth...
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COMING TO BABA: My 43-Year Romance With Meher Baba

Max Reif·September 27, 2014
This story appears in the book Toward an Interior Sun: Awakening by a Master, and the Difficult Journey toward Discipleship....
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POEM BY MAX REIF: Cancer

Max Reif·July 1, 2013
CANCER 1. “Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?” “Cancer.” At a party, you’d empty the room. No one would even ask, “Cancer...
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POEMS BY MAX REIF: Recovery, Canada 1971, Saturday Evening Todos Santos Park, I took a Step

Contributing Writer·May 28, 2013
RECOVERY He had been drowning for a long time. Lately, he’s felt his feet touching, actually walking on, the bottom....
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POEM BY MAX REIF: THE CORRIDOR – Remembering my parents with love

Max Reif·May 14, 2013
Down the long, gold-papered hall I’d walk to the bathroom in the condo my folks had moved to after they sold...
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MY DENNY’S “AMERICANA” ADVENTURE: Two essays by Max Reif

Max Reif·May 11, 2012
Americans know Denny’s, the chain of so-so diners that in many areas are the only places to go after a night of carousing or, conversely, upon very early rising, as the only places open all night...
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TOO OLD FOR FACEBOOK: Max Reif’s comical encounter with youth

Max Reif·April 30, 2012
I was shutting down my laptop at Starbucks a little while ago before coming here to the Library, and as I did so a mildly spiky-haired blonde young man said to me, "Oh, you're on Facebook, good!"...
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BECOMING A POET: The magic of word art

Max Reif·March 14, 2012
In college I never understood poetry. Certain distant acquaintances walked around in what appeared to be some sort of haze. People spoke of them, with awe, as poets. I didn’t grasp their poetry...
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POEMS by MAX REIF

Max Reif·November 18, 2011
(.........aug26) The River of Ordinary Moments Because living is a river of...
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