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Union with God is not something we can or need to acquire. By way of the contemplative skills of engaged receptivity and release, we realize this Union ever more deeply and clearly throughout the course of the days given us. God is too simple to be absent. It is we who, with complicated and cluttered minds, remain unaware that this foundational Light is flowering perpetually in the fertile and unfathomable right now.
-An Ocean of Light Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation-Martin Laird, O.S.A.
“The soul takes her being immediately from God: therefore God is nearer to the soul than she is to herself, and therefore God is in the ground of the soul with all His Godhead.”
-Meister Eckhart, Sermon 66, in Meister Eckhart: Sermons and Treatises, vol. 2, trans. and ed. M. O’C. Walshe (Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK: Element Books, 1979), 139.
Photoshop collage
All images by me
iPhone8 Plus
PANO-Vision element
Photoshop CS5.5
Quote is by Kabir, a 15th century Indian mystic poet
Walked along Little Venice canal again yesterday and this caught my eye, situated under the Westway flyover, near Notting Hill, London. Tried a different approach with this one and took a handheld shot with the iPhone by using/choosing/applying a filter before pressing the shutter release, so no editing was either necessary nor applied.
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Aachen Cathedral, Germany. This space was certainly an eye opener. You need some time here to fully appreciate it. A brief description below.
One of the oldest cathedral buildings in Europe, it was constructed as the royal chapel of the Palace of Aachen of Emperor Charlemagne, who was buried there in 814. From 936 to 1531, the original Palatine Chapel saw the coronation of thirty-one German kings and twelve queens. Later, much expanded, it was a minster and collegiate church, becoming a cathedral briefly from 1803 to 1825, and again in 1930 when the Diocese of Aachen was revived.[1] In 1978, Aachen Cathedral was one of the first 12 sites to be listed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites, because of its exceptional artistry, architecture, and central importance in the history of the Holy Roman Empire.[2]