It followed me, into the beauty of art, the thoughts of war, like a giant hollow, in my heart, a…
my heart will not be still . . .
Not sure why I love Persian music so much, and this one went straight to my heart . . .…
I bow to the surprise and wonder…. a tribute
Just re-reading Red’s book of poems that his daughter gave us after he passed away. I will forever remember the…
Does the picture quarrel with the painter?
Been thinking about this a lot. How this crazy, at times wonderful, at other times painful illusion of existence and…
The body . . .
Reading Daniel Ladinsky’s translation of Rumi verses and really like this one, perhaps befitting the last painting . . . …
“You Who Never Arrived”
You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don’t even know what songs…
Be your note.
Each Note Advice doesn’t help lovers!They’re not the kind of mountain streamyou can build a dam across. An intellectual doesn’t…
Knowing Who then i would kiss…
I really like Rabia and her poetry… Ironic, but one of the most intimate acts of our body is death.…
Everything is gestation and then birthing.
Sometimes when we don’t quite understand what the world is trying to tell us, or we are not quite sure…
loving, more loving…
Suffering only hurts because you fear it. Suffering only hurts because you complain about it. It pursues you because you…
Go to the Limits of your Longing – Geh bis an Deiner Sehnsucht Rand
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These…
What Happens…
Another beautiful poem by Hafiz that brought tears to my eyes for reasons that cannot be expressed any other way…
separation pains…
Just exactly what is this longing that pulls us thru life: love, devotion, bhakti, I keep wondering, as I find…
Your deepest presence…
Birdwings Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirrorup to where you’re bravely working. Expecting the worst, you look,…
Jeden Tag ein neuer Tag . . . Every day a new day . . .
Been sorting thru old photos to print an album for my father. While entering the digital age have been leaving…
Look in a clear mountain mirror…
After all the frenzy and busyness, suddenly feeling quite (which could be the quite before or after the storm)… You Don’t…
Let the inner life grow… illustrations for a children book
“Polish your heart with meditation and quietness. Let the inner life grow generous and handsome.” ~Rumi This poem is not…
because of the pain this world caused me…
Just when all the recent chaos and suffering and pain of the world seems to be unbearable and not making…
No More Leaving…
At Some point Your relationship With God Will Become like this: Next time you meet Him in the forest Or…
Surrender to the will of my Beloved
One day I feel confused and down,the next I can reach the skywithout you I am never calm.In your absence…
when eyes can hear and ears can see…
You live in meas a constant pulseevery fiber ofmy beingdancingto yourdrum beat. Your heavy breathtouches my ear,and every poreof my…
There are different wells within your heart…
There are different wellswithin your heart.Some fill with each good rain,Others are fartoo deep for that. In one wellYou have…
“I died as a mineral and became a plant…” Square and Round
I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as…
There Could Be Holy Fallout
I love this! Of course by Hafiz, so funny and yet so true… We are often in battle.So often defending…
Birthing (Out of Darkness, Light is born)
Sometimes when I don’t quite understand what the world is trying to tell me, or I am not quite sure…
Our soul is so vast . . .
HIS LIPS UPON THE VEIL He has never left you. It is just that your soul is so vast that…
the infinite ran to the edge of space . . .
NO ONE WILL BEGRUDGE ME I talk about it sometimes with Him, all the suffering in the world. “Dear God,”…
Love it when art inspires art . . .
By Liz Bennefield Looking at Claudia’s painting, I recall a poem that I wrote a very long time ago. “Memories”…
Could you embrace that?
After watching Avatar, I had a discussion on facebook about my disappointment with its solution to the problems of survival…
inspired by a hug… painting in process
Was watching this documentary “doing time doing vipasana“, about how 10 days of silent meditation made a huge difference in…
Grateful!
The Guest House This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some…
Please call me by my true names…
My last painting got me thinking and wondering about what that angel is doing, looking a bit burned. And who…
Prayer
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It…
There is nothing in your life that will not change…
CERTAINTY Certainty undermines one’s power, and turns happiness into a long shot. Certainty confines. Dears, there is nothing in your…
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will grow…
“A Necessary Autumn Inside Each” You and I have spoken all these words, but as for the waywe have to…
falling… rising
Autumn The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Each…
forgetting what doesn’t pass away…
Why are you so blind to what the soul needs?Weep for yourself as when a cloud weeps,and then the branch…
What is grace?
St. John of the Cross says it so clearly… “What is grace?” I asked God. And he said, “All that…
Is that my Fate?
Here is another poem by St. John on the cross that really touched me… Do they prove anything to you,…
I am you
HOW COULD A LOVER FALL? What could have caused your grip to weaken that allowed creation to be? How could…
What moves all things is God
Watched “The Passion of Christ” for the second time around and still couldn’t stand it, had to walk out a…
Appeal to the Muse…
Seems like my inspiration and output in painting has been lessened lately. And I remember Elisabeth Gilberts (in her TED…
June gloom…
June gloom weather… makes me wanna just crawl into my ‘cave’ and meditate… trying to escape uncertainty… being the only…
And would you be a lizard then?
I met you, a lizard, in the loYou stared at me the same way tooMoments, minutes, time stood still. I…
Where Your Bare Foot Walks…
The feet of a master have been associated with his connection to the ground and as such there is a…
feel like a flute…
How long are you going to beat melike a drum and make me sighfor you like a violin. You answer,…
long time gone…
Loving the soundof soft and forceful rains,the smell of earthreminding me oftrees and forestsand lakes oflong forgotten landsof my childhood.…
Wishing….
wishing for oceans, waterfalls, rainsending up laying face down in puddlessmelling the moist mud squishing between toes barefoot we cameand…
Freedom and fear
Here is another painting that intuitively appeared before me, expressing a sense of freedom and fear simultaneously. Und meine Seele…
what you want to happen…
Longing is the core of mystery.Longing itself brings the cure.The only rule is, Suffer the pain. Your desire must be…
God’s Hands are Big – (Embracing and Letting Go)
acrylic, mixed media on canvas, H 20 x W 24 inch (51 x 61cm) Hand is above hand, child, in…
“The broken ones are My darlings – never give up!”
This is the promise, they say when you remember God, when you don’t give up hope, when you remain “broken”…
Yesterday I came from Yesterday
Auf der Strassevom Gestern zum Heuteder Koffer zu schwerder Daumen kaum gehobenfegt es mich davon.Muss ich auf meine Seele warten?Sie…
I found myself in you
Was macht meine Fragein Deinen Augendas Lächeln um Deinen Mundwenn ich fröhlich bindie Trauer über Deine Sorgenstehen in meinem Gesicht…
the work of seeing….
Finished the last drawing class… “The work of seeing is doneNow practice heart workUpon those images captive within you.” (Rainer…
The lonely painter living in a box of paints
Yep, thats me, as a friend of mine pointed out. The song reminds her of our spiritual Teacher and the…