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The egoic mind is completely conditioned by the past. One of the most basic mind structures through which the ego comes into existence is identification.
When I was seeing people as a counselor and spiritual teacher, I would visit a woman twice a week whose body was riddled with cancer. She was a schoolteacher in her midforties and had been given no more than a few months to live by her doctors.
Sometimes a few words were spoken during those visits, but mostly we would sit together in silence, and as we did, she had her first glimpses of the stillness within her self that she never knew existed during her busy life as a schoolteacher.
One day, however, I arrived to find her in a state of great distress and anger. “ What happened?” I asked. Her diamond ring, of great monetary as well as sentimental value, had disappeared, and she was sure it had been stolen by the woman who came to look after her for a few hours everyday. She said she didn’t understand how anybody could be so callous and heartless as to do this to her. She asked me whether she should confront the woman or whether it would be better to call the police immediately. I said I couldn’t tell her what to do, but asked her to find out how important a ring or anything else was at this point in her life. “ You don’t understand”, she said. “ This was my grandmother’s ring. I used to wear it every day until I got ill and my hands became too swollen. It’s more than just a ring to me. How can I not be upset?”
The quickness of her response and the anger and defensiveness in her voice were indications that she had not yet become present enough to look within and to disentangle her reaction from the event and observe them both. Her anger and defensiveness were signs that the ego was still speaking through her. I said, “ I am going to ask you a few questions, but instead of answering them now, see if you can find the answers within you. I will pause briefly after each question. When an answer comes, it may not necessarily come in the form of words. “ She said she was ready to listen. I asked: “ Do you realize that you will have to let go of the ring at some point, perhaps quite soon? How much more time do you need before you will be ready to let go of it? Will you become less when you let go of it? Has who you are become diminished by the loss?” There were a few minutes of silence after the last question.
When she started speaking again, there was a smile on her face, and she seemed at peace. “ The last question made me realize something important. First I went to my mind for an answer and my mind said, ‘Yes, of course you have been diminished’. Then I asked myself the question again, ‘ Has who I am become diminished?’ This time I tried to feel rather than think the answer. And suddenly I could feel my I Am-ness. I have never felt that before. If I can feel the I Am so strongly, the who I am hasn’t been diminished at all. I can still feel it now, something peaceful but very alive”.
“ That is the joy of Being” I said. “ You can only feel it when you get out of your head. Being must be felt. It can’t be thought. The ego doesn’t know about it because thought is what it consists of. The ring was really in your head as a thought that you confused with the sense of I am. You thought the I Am or a part of it was in the ring.
“ Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel. You can value and care for things, but whenever you get attached to them, you will know it’s the ego. And you are never really attached to a thing but to a thought that has ‘I’, ‘me’, or ‘mine’ in it. Whenever you completely accept a loss, you go beyond ego, and who you are, the I Am which is consciousness itself, emerges”.
She said, “ Now I understand something Jesus said that never made much sense to me before: “ If someone takes your shirt, let him have your coat as well’”.
“ That’s right’, I said. It doesn´t mean you should never lock your door. All it means is that sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on”.
In the last few weeks of her life as her body became weaker, she became more and more radiant, as if light were shining through her. She gave many of her possessions away, some to the woman she tought had stolen the ring, and with each thing she gave away, her joy deepened. When her mother called me to let me know she had passed away, she also mentioned that after her death they found her ring in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. Did the woman return the ring, or had it been there all the time? Nobody will ever know. One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.
( Eckhart Tolle)
This gorgeous little house has ceased to be. Plowed under in the name of progress. We remember.
Process notes:
Three passes during scanning. One produced an image with only highlight information and just a small amount of midtone detail. This image looked very dark. Second image was for midtones. Highlights were completely blown out in this image and also no shadow detail. The third image was made to show only shadow detail. This was a very bright image, with no details in the highlights at all.
Arranged as layers in Photoshop, Highlight image on top, Multiply 50% opacity. Shadow image in the middle, Multiply 75% opacity. Midtone image on bottom, Normal 100% opacity.
I used a Levels layer on top of all of that to make final adjustments to the overall dark levels.
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This place is located in-between Shilong to Shora road, namely Laitryngew of East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya state, India. This place is well known for small scale mining and Rat Hole mining has been a conventional occupation of the people of the place and Sohra alike since time immemorial, the very mining has now put the lives of the residents of the area in an unprecedented danger.
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The record on the existence of Košice dating from 1230 in connected with that on the existence of the rectory church. In the process of the settlement's transformation from a rural community into a town, all its periods of success and failures had been reflected on St. Elizabeth's Cathedral. According to historic data the present-day cathedral was built on the site of an edifice of older date which was consecrated to St. Elisabeth as well. It was referred to in the document of Pope Martin V of the year 1283 and in the letter of 1290, which stated that Eger bishop Andrew II exempted Košice parish from the dean's sphere of jurisdiction.
This medieval monument was built in the High Gothic style between 1378 and 1508 in several stages on the site of a parish church that burned down in 1370, in memory of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary, the patrona of all armed mercenaries and also Portugal.
The cathedral was often damaged by calamities (1556) and underwent numerous restorations. The most extensive restoration works took place in the years 1877-1896 by the drafts of Imre Steindl. The northern tower was completed in 1775, while the southern, Matthias tower in 1904. During the last phase of the restoration a crypt was built under the northern nave of the cathedral. In 1906 the remains of Francis II Rákóczi and his friends from Rodosto were buried there.
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
Charles Baudelaire
Photographed during a walk along the Rim Trail from Sunrise Point to Bryce Point in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, USA.
Loretta Quinn
Bronze sculpture on granite plinth, 1993
Cnr Swanston St & Flinders La (Melway ref. 2F, G5)
Born in Hobart, Loretta Quinn studied sculpture at the Tasmanian School of Art and the Victorian College of the Arts. The City of Melbourne commissioned Quinn to create Beyond the Ocean of Existence as part of the Swanston Walk redevelopment in 1992; the sculpture was unveiled the following year. The city also commissioned Quinn’s Within Three Worlds, located in Princes Park.
Beyond the Ocean of Existence demonstrates Quinn’s reflective approach, and it is a work replete with religious references. There is a sense of ‘folk religion’ in much of her art, and whether the symbols derive from the mystery of a Latin mass or the animist universe, a Celtic myth or a Japanese garden, she says they are ‘visual references to which others will relate’.
A patinated bronze sculpture, Beyond the Ocean of Existence comprises a single large ball surrounded by eight bronze coils. A series of smaller balls and lengths of column, both triangular and circular in cross-section, surmount these coils. At the sculpture’s top is a stylised angel. The work is a mounted on a granite plinth of dressed and polished blocks.
Photograph by Louis Porter
Existence.
Well, what is it matter?
Existencia.
Bueno, ¿qué importancia tiene?
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Skinner is more than just an artist who paints psychodellic images of metal band mayhem, he is an event, a personality, a one-stop-shop of the super rad. It is within this personality that we begin to understand Skinner's work, and the detail, time, and focus he puts into everything he produces. We sat down with the artist to talk about his new show at The Shooting Gallery entitled "The Fragile Art of Existence" which explores a new place in the Skinner's body of work.
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Studio photos by Hal Rotter
Opening Night Photos by Michael Cuffe