Facets of a Diamond – Blog

The belief that I have a Soul relates to the Highest chakra, to communion with God.

For it is from my Soul that I Aspire to God, as God has so Inspired my Soul to Aspire.

To Know my mother’s Soul (and thus my own), I need to see her as the Mother of Love.

And to so commune, Soul to Soul, with her as Her, as God the Goddess.

You can’t Aspire until you Know you have a Soul, for it is from the Soul that Aspiration arises.

And to Know your Soul, you must first Know your mother’s – often starting not directly with her but with a sunset, a painting, a

I believe Blake’s “first Vision of Light” that “Appear’d on the Sea” was, basically, his mother as The Mother.

Lafcadio Hearn writes of “the question which all the sages have had to face: Is the universe moral?”

“Whether moral or immoral the cosmic process,” there must be one conviction: “the certainty that man should pursue the highest moral ideal with all his power to the unknown end, even though the suns in their courses should

No tune for the composer,
no subject for the painter.
Free! Free! At last.

The twentieth century’s
great gift to the Arts.

“The reason we find nothing to dislike in the drawings made by children is that in them the inherent nature of man finds expression without being thwarted or frustrated.” 

— Soetsu Yanagi

And it is the subject that thwarts and frustrates the painter’s free expression of his inherent nature, his Buddhahood, his

“The reason we find nothing to dislike in the drawings made by children is that in them the inherent nature of man finds expression without being thwarted or frustrated.”* That is to say, they are free to express their Muse, their Souls unrestrained.

 But then, “The moment children become self-conscious,

As soon as the music starts, we search for the tune. We must find it, or else we reject the piece as “too modern.”

But what if the very need for a tune is itself a problem? Isn’t the music the equivalent of what is called in art “expressionism”? We have paintings – “modern” – without

If the painting
needs an explanation,
then it’s not realistic
– for life is Untitled.