Facets of a Diamond – Blog
Altruism comes from being one with the One.
You can’t be altruistic to one and not to others – for all are the One.To be healed
is to be
ever-Aspiring.And to Aspire
is to first feel
Inspired.The essence of healing:
Inspiration – Aspiration.No one enters Heaven
until the last straggler
has Aspired
to the Highest.There are two creativities:
creativity merely from the mind,
and Creativity from the Muse, the Soul.When the black on white painting is dry, I love to run my fingers over the slightly raised image, my hand retracing the movement it made when painting.
But this time it is my hand, not the brush, that experiences this delicious sensuousness. Perhaps that’s why brushes love to paint.
“The aim … is to perceive the small existing within the large, and the large within the small, to see illusion within reality and the reality of illusion.”
— Shen Fu
(Six Records of a Floating Life, c. 1808)and
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palmWith my black ink paintings, I love what the Chinese call “flying white” – the white of the canvas showing through the black.
Now I can see the intimate marriage of black and white. Not black on white, but black and white. Co-joined in love.