Facets of a Diamond – Blog

Let me tell you of the room where I do nearly all my painting. There are many physical influences there, but I'll now just mention the Chinese because they seem to be the more powerful.

I speak of each of us having a Soul, as if each Soul were individual. But perhaps there's only one Soul, with myriad manifestations.

We can photograph the “ordered woods and gardens” – as most do. I much prefer the apparently disordered – the rust, the “junk.” And, hopefully, through it the Higher Order.

The purpose of meditation, Zen master Dogen taught, was not to become the Buddha-Nature but to realize that we already are, that we always are.

The aura, the etheric body, is an external manifestation of the Soul, the God within.

It is love that banishes all the negative emotions. It is love that invokes the spirit and activates the life energy. It is love that balances our brains and makes us creative. And it is love for our true self, for the self that we can be, that drives us on to want to be

Without a deep, full, sense of personal identity, we are lost, and at the mercy of all those, equally lost, who choose to steal whatever there is of us so as to fashion a false identity of themselves. As we choose to be stolen hoping to find an identity as them.

But there is only one

First believe that every moment, each and every happening, of your life is Determined – by the Great Spirit.

And then believe that It is Always Smiling on you.

(2002)

Everyone, everything, is, to me, but one aspect or another of my mother.  Enlightenment is coming to Know that all of her aspects are basically one – the Mother of Love.

(2002)

It’s said that the basic intention behind all spiritual endeavors is reconciliation with God.

I can’t directly reconcile you with God – but I can with your mother.

And to us all, our mother is God – as God on earth. For she was, and still is, our holiest intimation of the Divine.

The way to God is