Contemplative Trope, New York

October 24, 2011 Art+Psyche
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A Carapace that Prevents Us Knowing Our Place

October 16, 2011 Contemplation
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Tibetan Skull Crown Human bone, fabric, cotton thread (1800s, AGNSW) At the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) I recently saw this new acquisition and was impressed by its power of conveying the urgency and importance of the process of transformation and transcendence of our habitual ego-defended state (further intensified by its use of human bone). [...]

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Look At Yourself

October 2, 2011 Contemplation
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Sure, these two are talking at cross-purposes, but Marlon Brando’s understanding of our moment-to-moment constructions of identity is keen.

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“One day it will all feel like a dream”

October 2, 2011 Contemplation

This week in Sydney two mothers unintentionally ran over their children in their 4-wheel drive vehicles (SUVs). I’ve found myself reflecting on the wasteland of unimaginable grief in which those two mothers must now be journeying. I imagine they will be feeling that it’s without end. I have a Facebook friend, Vicki Woodyard, who has [...]

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Dream of the Animals, Rozelle Markets

October 2, 2011 Art+Psyche
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Place the Truth You Know Before the Desire You Feel

October 2, 2011 Contemplation
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Vernon Howard, by many accounts, was a ruthless teacher and some were unable to handle his onslaughts. But here’s a more gentle quote from him: Place the truth that you know before the desire that you feel. (The Power of your Supermind, Chap. 12, p. 156) For me this speaks of the power of a [...]

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Early in the Day…

September 24, 2011 Contemplation
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Early in the day it was whispered that we should sail in a boat, only thou and I, and never a soul in the world would know of this our pilgrimage to no country and to no end. In that shoreless ocean, at thy silently listening smile my songs would swell in melodies, free as [...]

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Pleistocenic Memory, Surry Hills

September 23, 2011 Art+Psyche
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Ode to Emptiness, Trumper Park

August 3, 2010 Art+Psyche
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crone

July 17, 2010 Art+Psyche
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crone wraps the shawl around her in a way of saying i’m enough – sits in front of our block her old bones chilled – warming now, us seeing her knowing we want her, the wise crone in our lives

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