There is a great difference between a flower growing in the garden and a cut flower, however ikebana-displayed, in a vase. They may superficially look the same, but only one has an Inner Flame, is in its own way embracing and exulting life.
I feel it is the same with photography.
Read More »Whatever you memorialize (a far better word than take) is Spirit in that particular form. The more you Know that, the more will the viewer.
And the very reason for photography is that the viewer will thus become Aware of the Spiritual dimension of life.
Your supposed choice of subject, of framing, of all the technical details, was not your choice, but that of your Guiding Forces.
Read More »Look at this rose I’m holding.
Do you see it as an Instance of God?
No, you reply.
So let me turn it around, just a little.
Now do you see it as God?
Yes! I do.
The rose hasn’t changed, only your perception of it, as a result of my re-orienting it to you – of re-orienting you to it.
Read More »All healing, whatever the particular modality employed, has two phases.
First, Inspiration: the Spirit, chi, entering down into the healer. The passive phase as the subject is viewed. And then the active phase: Aspiration. The Spirit returning to Whence as the shutter is pressed.
The healer as photographer, and the photographer as healer, with every cycle of Inspiration-Aspiration can help heal all – including his camera.
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