Amazing works by Michael Grab.
Through witnessing what this art has done for me personally over years of practice, my vision grows more and more to encourage others to seek their own “still-point” or inner silence. No-one but YOU is required to experience your divine nature. This art allows one to freely be themselves, manifesting their own particular vibrations into a 3D world. Stone balance teaches the practitioner lessons through silence. The inner silence that one cultivates through balancing (or other meditative practice) is a foundation to realizing that each of us are as much one another as we ARE our entire universe. One gigantic symphony. and to apply a framework of “balance” to the earth-organism will be infinitely beneficial for the well-being of our children, as well as the diversity of life we co-exist with.
~ Michael Grab
Inside everyone
is a great shout of joy
waiting to be born.
Even with the summer
so far off
I feel it grown in me
now and ready
to arrive in the world.
All those years
listening to those
who had
nothing to say.
All those years
forgetting
how everything
has its own voice
to make
itself heard.
All those years
forgetting
how easily
you can belong
to everything
simply by listening.
~David Whyte, from ‘The Winter of Listening’
(Painting by Zou Chuan’an)
the poet is
like a flute
shaping the breath
into a melody
true poet
shapes his life
into a breath
of the divine…
hollow from self
touched by intuition
life breath becomes a tune
in the symphony of being
when you read/hear a poem
and it touches your heart
it is because
you yourself
are the endless
poem
of life
and
the flute
inert in the flutist hands
cooled by the passing breath
caressed by the loving fingers
cares not
for the sound
produced
~Yosy Flug
A morning at the pine forest, oil painting by Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898)
Winter, an oil painting by Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898)
Oaks, an etude, by Ivan Shishkin
One of my absolute favorite Russian painters.
The soul, a stranger in the world, is yearning for the city of placelessness; why, O why does the bestial spirit continue so long to graze?
Pure, goodly soul, how long will you journey on? You are the King’s falcon; fly back toward the Emperor’s whistle!
~Rumi
(Image: Falcon by Kailash Raj)
Katsushika Hokusai, Mount Fuji Seen Below a Wave at Kanagawa
Chinese painting by Shen Wei
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