The Academy of European Arts and Culture

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Today, strangely enough I bought a new computer, and there is nothing on it. That's the way you are when you are born – there is nothing on you. We have to learn, we have to push "Enter" for information to go into you. One computer can have lots of Giga-bites disc and can have lots of information; and another can have very little information; but the one with lots of information is not necessarily any better than the one that has no information. You can fill up your hard disc with all sorts of rubbish. And these people who have full hard discs, full of rubbish, and they think that they are intelligent, or that they are capable of discussing many subjects, I have to show you that having knowledge is nothing. It just means your hard disc is full. Unless you can use it, it is no good.

~Mervyn J. Brady

Monday, May 20, 2013

We're Never Alone

Arthur Hughes

We're never alone. Looking for inspiration in a place where we can
be fed by something Divine is one of the ways we can be sure that
we are holding on to the Work. Something is there to hold us up
and we have to hold it in return. This is most true in the moments
when we feel far away from God, and when we find ourselves

experiencing longer stretches of time without 'taking a moment'.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

That was us.

Edmund Dulac

Under a clear starry sky in the crisp night air we know what is expected of us. But the journey itself is our reality and it is the journey that must be lived wherever or however we are. The Doing of things. The end is always in our heads and our hearts,
but after all is done the journey was what we were. That was us.

~MT

Karnak

In this process we are eternally coming into being,
recognizing through all senses our own eternal beauty,

shattering in joy, and being remembered again whole.
Like the great light of spirit holding each part of my

body in cohesion. In this moment I can reach out and

touch the spaces.

Many years ago, while working with Mervyn, I dropped

a plate on the floor. He looked at me with great love and

said: "That is your soul, it will unify in order for you to

remember yourself". I felt the beauty of his gaze as the

wisdom of his words and being pierced my heart and soul.

Today, I realise I have to become the spaces between

all the shattered parts. It is in that divine space that

we become the architects of our own souls.

Friday, May 17, 2013

"go to the limits of your longing"

Arthur Rackham

I hear Rilke encouraging us not to fear our longing. Let it bring us to our knees and destroy all that is not real in us. Once we reach the limits, nothing else will remain - only the peace of a soul in eternal love and freedom.