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I needed this this week. I have been pushing like mad to complete a few computer projects and, surprise, no artwork was made. I most strenuously object »»
Filed under: Carl Honere, Fun, Ikky Sojun, Making art, Play, Poetry, Spiritual Path, Video, via negativa, womb | Blogroll, Carl Honere, Ikkyu Sojun, Making art, Mysticism, Poetry, Spiritual Path, via negativa, womb|1 Comment
Clays are extraordinary, layered, crystal structures which have, built into them, what amounts almost to an innate tendency to evolve…Clay has plans.
-Lyall Watson, from An Introduction to »»
Filed under: Art technique, Earth, Garden, Hildegard of Bingen, Illumination, Mysticism, Sacred Art, Spiritual Path, St. Thomas Aquinus, Thomas Berry, Women Mystics, artist as vessel, ceramics, clay, creativity, via negativa | Art technique, artist as vessel, Blogroll, ceramics, clay, creativity, Earth, Garden, Hildegard of Bingen, Illumination, Mysticism, Sacred Art, Spirituality, St. Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Berry, via negativa, Women Mystics|3 Comments
I haven’t posted in a couple days, I have a number of irons in the fire and been doing a lot of art which I will share »»
Filed under: Abil-Kheir, Angelus Silesius, Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, Tagore, via negativa | Abil-Kheir, Angelus Silesius, Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, Tagore, via negativa|1 Comment
Post Updated: I’ve bumped up this post from last month because I added photos of the sculpture it inspired at the end.
This poem by Thomas Merton »»
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It has been quite a while since I posted. My life has been in such an uproar and this is the first time I have found enough »»
Filed under: Earth, Guidance, Mysticism, Spiritual Path, creation, via negativa | creation, Earth, Guidance, Mysticism, Spiritual Path, via negativa|No Comments
More from Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi
Many and disparate waves do not make the sea a multiplicity; no more do the Names make the Named more than One. When the »»
Filed under: Annunciation, Blogs, Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Matthew Fox, Music, Mysticism, Poetry, Spiritual Path, Video, creation, via negativa | Annunciation, Blogroll, creation, Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Matthew Fox, Music, Mysticism, Poetry, Spiritual Path, The One, via negativa, Video|5 Comments
It is so unreasonable cold here! Sorry, I couldn’t help myself!
A month or so ago, I posted about pushing and pushing to get a piece submitted to »»
Filed under: Healing, Spiritual Path, surrender, via negativa | Healing, Spiritual Path, surrender, The One, via negativa|3 Comments
With all the excitement of the holidays, I haven’t had much time to make art. I haven’t been sleeping well- a sure sign that I’ve abandoned my »»
Filed under: Artists, Making art, Mystics, Spiritual Path, Video | Annunciation, Art, artist as vessel, Artists, Blogroll, creation, Earth, Heidi Thompson, Hildegard of Bingen, Illness, Jesus, Matthew Fox, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Mystics, Spiritual Artists, Spirituality, via negativa, Video, Virgin Mary|6 Comments
The Fountain
How well I know that flowing spring
in black of night.
The eternal fountain is unseen.
How well I know where she has been
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Filed under: Gratitude, Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, Spiritual Path, St. John of the Cross, creativity, via negativa | creation, creativity, Gratitude, Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, St. John of the Cross, via negativa|2 Comments
A bit of business and then some beauty.
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This week, I added a tag cloud to my sidebar. Over the next few days I’m going to be »»
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The greatest spiritual crisis facing humanity today is rectifying our relationship to the Earth. Sadly, our culture has taught us that physicality »»
Filed under: Birth, Boneventure, Earth, Elisabet Sahtouris, Healing, Hildegard of Bingen, Illumination, John Muir, Lex Hixon, Matthew Fox, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Mystics, Plotinus, Poetry, Spiritual Path, Thomas Berry, Women Mystics, creation, fear, surrender, via negativa, womb | Birth, Bonaventure, creation, Earth, Elisabet Sahtouris, fear, Healing, Hildegard of Bingen, Illumination, John Muir, Lex Hixon, Matthew Fox, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Mystics, Plotinus, Spiritual Path, Spirituality, surrender, The One, Thomas Berry, via negativa, womb, Women Mystics|2 Comments
I’ve been down with the flu for a couple days. I have a post brewing about the connection between sacred art & the earth. In the meantime, »»
Filed under: Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, St. John of the Cross, via negativa | Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, St. John of the Cross, via negativa|2 Comments
A cantilena formerly ascribed to Johannes Tauler 14th century German Mystic:
I will sing of bareness a new song,
for true purity is without thought.
Thoughts may not be there,
so »»
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I can’t seem to get enough of Tagore. I’ve posted many of his poems here because he so intimately understands the process of creativity.
Thou hast made »»
Filed under: Mysticism, Poetry, Tagore, artist as vessel, creation, via negativa | artist as vessel, creation, Mysticism, Poetry, Spirituality, Tagore, The One, via negativa|4 Comments
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