The Academy of European Arts and Culture

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Ancient Myths

Edward Burne-Jones

How should we forget those ancient myths that are the beginnings of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Monday, April 21, 2014

Development

Raphael

It is in the developing of our essence that we make more room for the inner world - the Soul - to begin to actively make use of the true talents of our essence. This is why different conscious beings pierce us differently.

We have been born into these machines and we have this beautiful soul... when we balance the essence and talents so that they are able to communicate the understandings and Being of the Soul then we will be truly manifesting Influence C.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

...in my heart

William Blake

He is laboring in me;

I need to be silent

for a while,

worlds are forming

in my heart.

~Meister Eckhart

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Love

Chartres Cathedral

Love is like a maze, and once you get there

you have to find you way back again.

~Mervyn J. Brady

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Fear and Hope

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Fear keeps pace with hope.

Nor do I find it surprising that they keep company, for each belongs to a mind in suspense, a mind hanging on what the future might bring. The cause in both cases is failure to adjust ourselves to the present and a tendency to project our mental processes far into the future.

Foresight, which is mankind's greatest advantage, is thus turned to disadvantage. Beasts avoid the dangers which confront them, and when they have avoided them they stand at ease; we are tormented alike by the future and the past. Our superiority brings us much distress; memory recalls the torment of fear, foresight anticipates it. No one confines his misery to the present.

~Seneca

Friday, April 11, 2014

Sacred

William Blake

When people have a magnetic centre and they find a "Way"

they become very emotional and begin to work on themselves

and may find a Group of people working on themselves,

BUT this is not Sacred, this is the machine and the inner world

beginning their little sparring matches

and thrust and probe jabs at each other.

Sacred is when this battle becomes acknowledged by something higher and something higher injects something into the affray.

~Mervyn J. Brady

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

God has not abandoned us

Niroot Puttapipat

God has not abandoned us. Each one of you also knows about suffering...no one is spared. It is not what we bear or what we suffer. It is how we live it that counts. We have been given life, and it is what we make of it that ultimately allows us to become free from it. The secret becomes known to people who first see and understand that they are not the body but what resides inside it. Slowly they make plans, perfect their wisdom, and practice their art. Anytime people mistake the Body for the Soul they will stumble and may have to start again.

~Mervyn J. Brady