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“Religion, like art, is an attempt to deal
with the non-rational. That's not the
irrational. It is the non-rational - those
powerful forces that inform all of our lives -
love, beauty, the search for meaning,
mortality, grief and alienation.”
~Chris Hedges, author, activist, investigative journalist
“It is wrong to think that the task of physics
is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns
what we say about Nature.”
~Niels Bohr, On Quantum Physics
creativity
is the web of life
art as storytelling
art at the intersection of becoming
"The question is not so much "What do I learn
from stories?" as What stories do I want to
live?" Insofar as I'm 'non-dual' with my
narratives, that question is just as much,
"What stories want to come to life through me?"
~ Buddhist writer David Loy, The World is Made of Stories
When Francis Harwood, an anthropologist, asked
a Sioux elder why people tell stories, he
answered: “In order to become Human beings.”
She asked, “Aren’t we human beings already?”
He smiled. “Not everyone makes it.”
~from a quote in David Loy’s The World is Made of Stories
"All form is emptiness - emptiness is form.
Form is not other than emptiness and
emptiness not other than form.
All Buddhas past present and future understand
this while actualizing supreme awakening.
This understanding is the great illumination
of understanding which protects from suffering
in illusion - without fail."
~ a few lines from the Mahayahna Heart Sutra
"One of the implications of the oneness (non-
duality) of things is a simultaneity. There's
not a here and a then, not a cause and effect,
not a subject and an object. There is a
simultaneity of things right here in the
present moment. Everything is simultaneously
of this world (as) material or energetic -
manifest phenomenal measureable and at the
same time everything is empty vast eternal -
not changing not rising and falling.
Everything is both of those things
simultaneously. That is the shimmering quality
of everything."
~ From a 2012 Santa Fe NM lecture entitled Shimmer and Flow by Zen
teacher Joan Sutherland
"Authentically spiritual abstract art does not so much communicate
as induce an attitude of communion and contemplation. It offers an
equivalent of what is regarded as part of religious life: a sincere
and humble submission to a spiritual object, an experience which is
not given automatically but requires preparation and purity of
spirit."
~ Donald Kuspit, Concerning the Spiritual in Abastact Art
“Because vast spirit has no contradiction, there is the cypress
tree in the courtyard.”
~ Zen master Dogen
Mandala - West
String Theory
"Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should
like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is
inconceivable in physiological terms… …I would say man does not
consist only of chemical processes, but also of metaphysical
occurrences. The provocateur of the chemical processes is located
outside the world. Man is only truly alive when he realizes he is
a creative, artistic being… …Even the act of peeling a potato can
be a work of art if it is a conscious act."
~ Joseph Beuys
The eyes are how the great mystery sees, how it hold on,
moment by moment holds to the gift of each moment,
before the next moment appears bringing with it it’s own face”
~ Joseph Rael, Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico