Thinking is a withdrawal from life's immediacy.
An immediate mind embraces and engages – it does not think.
The thoughtful distance is necessitated by a lack of root.
A root allows you to channel life through you and stay immediate – connected.
It is absolutely without violence and without effort – without spirit even.
It's the place you spring from and go back to.
A place of utter contentment.
28 February 2007
All the buried places
will eventually find you
Pam Rehm, Small Works
I read this little book – one of the most beautiful I have ever come across – on the shore of Lake Galilee yesterday. The setting gave the poems a weight, intensity & depth remarkable even for them.
will eventually find you
Pam Rehm, Small Works
I read this little book – one of the most beautiful I have ever come across – on the shore of Lake Galilee yesterday. The setting gave the poems a weight, intensity & depth remarkable even for them.
27 February 2007
19 February 2007
14 February 2007
13 February 2007
If my works are of any interest, it is first and foremost because I observe Nature with awe and very closely, and because it awakens a polarity of feeling in me. This is far more important than that virtuosity which constant, dedicated work will almost invariably lead to. I cannot emphasize sufficiently the need for an artist to be honest in his work. Only honesty can give him the high courage he requires to take the work upon him in all modesty.
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
12 February 2007
Birthday
Dear Steven
The first 48 are the worst...
Respect your foundation, open your heart.
The embracing of destiny swallows fear and its offspring time and pride.
The thrust within you will become more and more revealed as reaching out
to the consequences of your true nature.
The thinking calculating mind will find its own remote sanctuary, and will keep you fluent in the language most speak.
The language of connection is pure compassion, and that is how you will save the world.
Who else is there?
Feel your shoulders broaden and the necessary strength invade your bones from the heavens and the earth.
Such bountiful activity is the essence of peace and the miracle-touch of life.
Love
John
The first 48 are the worst...
Respect your foundation, open your heart.
The embracing of destiny swallows fear and its offspring time and pride.
The thrust within you will become more and more revealed as reaching out
to the consequences of your true nature.
The thinking calculating mind will find its own remote sanctuary, and will keep you fluent in the language most speak.
The language of connection is pure compassion, and that is how you will save the world.
Who else is there?
Feel your shoulders broaden and the necessary strength invade your bones from the heavens and the earth.
Such bountiful activity is the essence of peace and the miracle-touch of life.
Love
John
11 February 2007
08 February 2007
A New Life
Dear Steven
We have woken to a white cityscape ripe for melting as the hard structures made by fear ache to be melted by two hearts becoming one.
Love
John
We have woken to a white cityscape ripe for melting as the hard structures made by fear ache to be melted by two hearts becoming one.
Love
John
07 February 2007
Round Chapel class
06 February 2007
Ireland
Please note dates above for next Irish Workshops, and click that link for more details.
The ones this past weekend went well. Fintan entertained us afterwards.
The ones this past weekend went well. Fintan entertained us afterwards.