The Code
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth… Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing …. Naomi Shihab “Kindness” – Words under the Words
Ode to my Ancestors
For me, My family, Our Entire Lineage And All Humanity Throughout All Time, Past, Present And Future Let’s All Forgive Each Other, Forgive Ourselves Forgive All People And All People Forgive Us Completely And Totally, Now and Forever Let’s All Love Each Other And Love Ourselves Be at Peace with Each Other Be at Peace...
Sacred Passage
Creative work, like love, is not an exclusive gift bestowed on only a chosen few. A few now possess sanctity and moral vision, heroism and wisdom, genius and talent. But all that is merely activation of the potential dormant within every soul. A sea of love, an unexhaustible wellspring of creativity, bubbles behind the consciousness...
Hallowed Phoenix
You do not have to be in some setting hallowed by greatness, or in the presence of an artist honoured around the world, for art to move you. Art can work its magic any time you are in the presence of a work created by someone who has gone inside the act of creation to...
Rohana
It is because of our wounds, our pain and our sadness, that we turn from the outer world and trace the thread of our own darkness back to its source.It leads us through the barriers of pain to the place of our own healing. But in the very process of making this journey the light...
Everything is Sacred
Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. Macrina Wiederkehr
Sacred Blaze
If each day falls inside each night there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience. Pablo Neruda – Seeking Clarity
Creative Power
When I have gazed into a tidal poolAnd seen the texture exquisite of stone,Of life and plant, deep in the lucid cool,It seems no greater wonder could be known.Yet there’s a cleanness I have known in dreams –In those rare dreams that are like blessed wine –A pure transparency wherein it seemsIs traced the form...
Vitarka
The story of Ganesha goes something like this…. He was magically brought into existence as a little boy at first by Shakti who felt lonely when Lord Shiva left her to do his work. One day Lord Shiva returned to find Ganesh and thought he was an intruder so cut of his head. On seeing...
Rudra
The full moon of Dec 29 illuminates the end of a tense and stormy year. In uncertain times, creative pathways often open in surprising ways. This is an energising full moon that can open your mind, clear the air, and help you to release the past, and step into the future.The full moon is in...
Symbolism
The human heart has been so made by Love that, like a flint, it contains a hidden fire which is evolved by music and harmony, and renders us beside ourselves with ecstasy. These harmonics are echoes of that higher world of reality which we call the world of spirits…they fan into a flame whatever love...
Soul Labrynth
As the poets and painters of centuries have tried to tell us, art is not about the expression of talent or the making of pretty things. It is about the preservation and containment of soul. It is about arresting life and making it available for contemplation. Art captures the eternal in the everyday, and it...