Art was cast into the world by superior beings, intending to clothe the truth and attract to it, by artifice, our spirits which had become incapable of loving it in the nude. – Vedic tradition
From my devotional chanting class…and also calls to mind this Hafiz:
You are the Sun in drag.
You are God hiding from yourself.
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costumes
Posted in art, mysticism, poetry, tagged art, illusion, mysticism, poetry on April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
well, you can’t expect us all to be Mother Teresa…
Posted in mysticism, tagged faith, inspiration, spirituality on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
and really, she had some trouble with it too…
i had saved this link back in august, and then it got lost amongst my many notes since then, so here now is a link to a long piece in Time magazine on Mother Teresa’s crisis of faith – which in turn is about a new book [...]
now that’s what i call a renegade installation
Posted in art, mysticism, tagged art, spirituality, visionary on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
i’m dying to see this – some guy in italy spent 16+ years digging a secret network of underground caves that he created into some breathtaking visionary art temples. wow. take me please .
