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YEAR TREE 2014


When I look at my trees today and recognise the
different qualities of each year, I understand why
psychology identifies these connections. We are
profoundly unconscious, and a simply painting
brings a great deal of information to the surface...

Enjoy and if you like, leave your valued comment

THANK YOU
michael

TESTAMENTS to TIME

I find it striking how different the pictures are.
They seem very genuine and stir up all kinds of feelings in me.
Especially because I was by your side all those years.

This is what I wrote on your profile before you added the texts.
You let me do this test some years ago. I can immediately feel my
struggles and anxieties. I always want to do as well as possible on tests.
I’m sure my drawings expressed that, too. To this day, I still have a hard
time showing myself for who I am.

You have many projects through which you capture the essence of time,
or in which your consciousness is reflected.
It reminds me to create such testaments to time myself.

Thank you for your authentic drawings.
🌹
c.

Dear Michael,

I have been looking at these scratches several times since yesterday. I was trying to understand something mental or spiritual in them. Well, I am not a psychologist, so by this “trying” I don’t mean I aimed to understand your mental state. I was trying to understand how changes in personality or mental state relate to one’s spiritual state.

I know it is said that, for example, if you exercise, it is good for both your physical and mental condition. And at a deeper level, spiritual masters suggest that physical and mental health, which can lead to spiritual improvement, form a two-way equation. This was an introduction to what I am going to say.

The merging of three aspects inspired me to write this: seeing these scratches, the words in the “One Word for the Future” forum, and another awareness that came to me during Silence Time yesterday.

I decided to draw a diagram to better demonstrate my thoughts and questions.

*The LOVE in the center represents the true LOVE, which is equivalent to THE LIGHT—not the love that human beings experience on Earth as a symptom and mistake for LOVE (although it may be their soul’s way of reaching true LOVE).

**I won’t put bliss as a sub-group or derivative of LOVE. Because I think it carries the same meaning as LOVE and LIGHT.

It is said that the aim of creation of this world is for human beings to find LOVE.

It is said that this world is a school for human souls, and that we must learn before graduating. (Another awareness I had during Silence Time. I might have heard similar ideas before, but I could never truly feel or understand their meaning in daily life.)

Every word around “LOVE” (= LIGHT) in the diagram is derived from LOVE and is a result of it.

Take “peace” as an example. When we are filled with LOVE—or better said, when we become LOVE—we experience infinite “peace”. But we must make an effort to cultivate peace. We cannot create peace for ourselves or others without effort. The same applies to “safe”. When we are only LOVE, and nothing else, we are absolutely safe in the hands of LOVE. In this state, even if you are physically hurt, you are not truly “hurt”. It is needless to say that when the world becomes LOVE, there will be no war or cruelty. This concept also applies to “acceptance”, which I implied with the word “stoicism”. We can easily accept all so-called good or bad events in life when we are filled with LOVE, because LOVE is everything; LOVE is complete and self-sufficient. And so on… all other words and concepts are components of LOVE.

True love, identical to self-awareness, has been granted to only a few people on Earth, effortlessly (mystics and Sufis). They are blessed with this LOVE, the highest level of enlightenment. There are many others who seek it but can never find it, because it is not something that can be achieved through “trying”.

It is said that you can BE LOVE by maintaining a Silence practice.

The awareness that came to me yesterday was this: the path from LOVE to the other concepts mentioned above is a two-way path.

So, if this is true, we should not be discouraged by the thought that we are not among the blessed ones who receive THE LIGHT effortlessly. This raises the following questions:

a. Is Silence Time enough to become or reach THE LIGHT?

b. If the answer to (a) is no, should we try to cultivate all of the above-mentioned concepts to reach LOVE (=LIGHT)? For example, when I live the life that I truly want in a normal day, I feel so happy that I can be kind to others and willing to engage in spiritual practice. If I can attain all of these concepts, does that mean I can become THE LIGHT (=LOVE)?

c. Is it possible to attain all of them in daily life?

Sorry, I wrote too much. I just wanted to share my concerns.

Thank you for this opportunity, Michael...

You have many projects through which you capture the essence....

In Time a Symphony is revealed....

Does that mean I can become THE LIGHT....

Well, you are the LIGHT and LOVE already....



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It is indeed my fault.... 🙂


Creation, the whole universe, is an expression of LOVE.
Basic stuff is Energy and Frequency. It flows in waveform
and we say: At the beginning there was a word and the word was by GOD.
Well, in India the say: Nada Brahma (God is Sound). Same difference.

GOD, LOVE, TRANSCENDENCE, SILENCE, ABSOLUT

All this are different words for something that can not put in words.

For any creation we need FEAR. If the creation is healthy, happiness
WITHOUT a REASON, appears.

The flow of LOVE in any creation is shown as happiness (without a reason)


THANK YOU BOTH
michael

' Scratched Trees '

When I looked at your trees, there was no other option,
than smiling and feeling bliss! Even now, while writing
these words, I can´t stop smiling!
Some of them remind me of Africa and memories
are coming up! Other ones are taking me back
to my childhood, where everything felt so easy.
They make me feel alive and... I smile!

Each tree in his special and own character

--------------------- Beautiful --------------------🙏

These faults are highly appreciated 🙂

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“In the beginning there was nothing; there was the Word, and the Word was God.”

But how could the “Word” exist with no tongue to speak it and no “mind” to know it?

God was One, and besides God there was nothing.

And with only “nonexistence,” how can there be “existence”?

God existed, and with Him was nothingness,

and nothingness had no ears.

There are words that exist to be spoken;

if there were no ears, we would not utter them.

And there are words that exist not to be spoken;

words that never bow their heads to the banality of being uttered.

These are the wondrous, beautiful, and divine words.

Every person's transcendent wealth is measured by the words they keep unspoken—

impatient, agonizing words,

like restless tongues of fire,

each of whose words holds an explosion captive;

words that are fragments of a human being’s very existence...

They are forever in search of their listener.

If they find one, they themselves are found,

and they come to rest in the depths of that person’s conscience.

But if they do not find their listener, they are not.

And if they lose that listener, they set the soul ablaze from within and continually kindle terrifying fires of torment.

And God had many words that were not to be spoken,

surging within the infinity of His heart and making Him restless.

And how could nothingness ever be His listener?"

(By Ali Shariati (1933–1977))

...as long as the tree is standing on its ground and
is producing air for us, we can't see the year-rings
in its trunk but yes, your questions are legit, Ayda.

THAT is why it is so absolutely vital to receive an
INITIATION and a Meditation Technique!

Thank You


P.S. Your thoughts are more for the Deeper Reflection Forum ... 🙂

Dear Michael, the text above was not my thought; it was a quote about THE WORD base on which the world was created. I sent it because it resomated what you said about the WORD.

I won't sent such texts on this forum again.

My Apologies.....

All is good, Ayda. We have scratched an important
theme and bring back the TREE's now... 🙂

Thank You