Post 13: Beyond Defining Ourselves and Moving to the Self
Title of Painting: San Ildefonso Pueblo V I am done defining myself. I dissolve and become pure relationship with everything. This is what we are! (The date of this social media post: Jan. 15, 2016) There are two parts to this post. The first part deals with moving beyond defining oneself. The second part deals with what we are when we let our self-definitions go and we find ourselves in a different world of living relationships with all that surrounds us. We are always defin
Post 12: Worlds Touching
Title of Painting: The Juggler We, Indwellers of Worlds While busy juggling the things of this world, A crack… Light appears. We look in its direction. We see another world opening up! We keep our gaze there. Our being moves into it. This formless world becomes Real! Yet, we are still in this world, too— an effect of this Higher World! Things here lose their heaviness. Ah, the mystery of the hologram of this world! And incredible form! A light shines through it all! What joy!
Post 11: The Transformation of Suffering
Title of Painting: The Storm Anger, pain, confusion, emptiness, despair.
You stand as the storm builds, as waves pummel and crash.
Lightning strikes.
Friends flee.
You don’t run!
You are alone in the cutting rawness of the world.
You feel it all— reject nothing.
You marvel.
Being, awareness here in the storm.
Then an unfathomable miracle—
“I EXIST!”
“I AM” (The date of this social media post: Dec. 27, 2015) The title of this blog could have also been “From Darkness
Post 10: Another Look at Relationships
Title of Painting: The Dance “To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred,
all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (The date of this social media post: Nov. 9, 2015) What are these relationships in our life? Are they not mysterious? I live mostly on the surface of them. Yet, at moments, they can move into such deep expressions of love—full of wonder and beauty beyond imagining. What causes these shifts
