One must be willing to stand alone—in the unknown, with no reference to the known or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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| French Jug with Bowls, oil on linen |
One must stand in that dark light, in that groundless embrace, unwavering and true to the Reality beyond all self, not just for a moment but forever without end; for then that which is sacred, undivided, and whole is born within consciousness and begins to express itself.
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| Still Life with Flowers, oil on linen |
That expression is the salvation of the whole. It is the activity of an inward revolution brought down into time and space.
-Adyashanti
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| Old Bottles, oil on linen |
