Comments on: Visual Meditation: "The heart can push the sea" http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/ Transformative Living through Contemplative & Expressive Arts Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:17:40 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Christine http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-16278 Christine Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:33:15 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/#comment-16278 Thank you for all of the lovely comments! I am grateful :-) Thank you for all of the lovely comments! I am grateful :-)

]]> By: Sunrise Sister http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-16183 Sunrise Sister Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:19:19 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/#comment-16183 I have been to Maine and your photos almost bring the smell of it all to me. A beautiful place to visit - especially in the season you just completed. Thanks for sharing the peaceful message of these scenes. xoxox I have been to Maine and your photos almost bring the smell of it all to me. A beautiful place to visit – especially in the season you just completed. Thanks for sharing the peaceful message of these scenes.

xoxox

]]> By: Kel http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-16174 Kel Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:22:55 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/#comment-16174 our own heart and soul determines the depth and breadth of our own universe YES! I am going to email this link to my man so he can take a moment at work and breathe in the beauty of things he loves and enlarge his soul for just a moment thankyou our own heart and soul determines the depth and breadth of our own universe
YES!

I am going to email this link to my man so he can take a moment at work and breathe in the beauty of things he loves and enlarge his soul for just a moment

thankyou

]]> By: Sarah Whitworth http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-16168 Sarah Whitworth Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:18:12 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/#comment-16168 Lucy, what I knew -- the scripture! "Be present and know that I am God." God is sheer Presence, sheer Presence is Joy! So: I AM A WOMAN is God I AM A BLACK MAN is God I AM A 90-YEAR OLD FORGOTTEN CREATURE is God I AM A POOR BEGGAR is God, I AM BROKEN AND UGLY AND LONELY is God, and innumerable other moments of being.... The echo of the bell at Yoshimizu -- I am here, too, in a black robe set against the white mist. (waka by the Buddhist nun Otagaki Rengetsu) Lucy, what I knew — the scripture!
"Be present and know that I am God."

God is sheer Presence, sheer Presence is Joy! So:

I AM A WOMAN is God
I AM A BLACK MAN is God
I AM A 90-YEAR OLD FORGOTTEN CREATURE is God
I AM A POOR BEGGAR is God,
I AM BROKEN AND UGLY AND LONELY is God,
and innumerable other moments of being….

The echo of the bell
at Yoshimizu –
I am here, too,
in a black robe
set against the white mist.

(waka by the Buddhist nun Otagaki Rengetsu)

]]> By: lucy http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-16165 lucy Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:44:40 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/#comment-16165 sarah--i would love to know what those words I AM A WOMAN, spoke to you. :-) peace. christine--Wow! i was already preparing a comment on the images and then read the poem. Both are so impacting. "no wider than the heart is wide"; "no higher than the soul is high." the possibilities are endless, aren't they? :-) i have never been to maine, but these photos produced a stronger longing to go there. i am not sure what it is about empty chairs, but they always draw me in. i wonder of the stories of the people who sit there from time to time. what do they long for? thank you. this was such a beautiful way to start the day!!! xoxoxoxo sarah–i would love to know what those words I AM A WOMAN, spoke to you. :-) peace.

christine–Wow! i was already preparing a comment on the images and then read the poem. Both are so impacting. "no wider than the heart is wide"; "no higher than the soul is high." the possibilities are endless, aren't they? :-)

i have never been to maine, but these photos produced a stronger longing to go there. i am not sure what it is about empty chairs, but they always draw me in. i wonder of the stories of the people who sit there from time to time. what do they long for?

thank you. this was such a beautiful way to start the day!!! xoxoxoxo

]]> By: Sarah Whitworth http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-16159 Sarah Whitworth Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:36:25 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2008/04/25/visual-meditation-the-heart-can-push-the-sea/#comment-16159 "The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through." In the Bible I read, "Be present and know that I am God." But, I AM A WOMAN! I shouted out loud, then suddenly realized what I had said. "The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through."

In the Bible I read, "Be present and know that I am God."
But, I AM A WOMAN! I shouted out loud, then suddenly realized what I had said.

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