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Love is God's secret name.
I put the cult in culture.
Art is the skin of the soul.
Art is a delivery system for worldviews.
I want my art to help people reimagine God.
I became really interested in the study of consciousness.
The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.
The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.
Burning Man is a crowning achievement of freedom in festival culture.
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.
An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples."
I grew up Methodist and went to church until my parents gave up on religion when I was nine.
God's inexplicable. God is beyond the everything. And yet we can't cease to blather about it.
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.
I think sound and vision are all vibratory emanations... it's the way the soul flowers: art and music.
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive.
Festival culture is all about evolving consciousness and generating a sense of unity, hope, and possibility.
I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth
It has been an honor to paint on stage and have my art grace the albums and stage sets of renowned musicians.
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.
When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.
Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.
When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
Like Love, Art ties together all the great sacred traditions because they all used creative expression, or we wouldn't know about them.
Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.
The inner artist is not the voice of reason. The inner artist can have wild and impossible ideas... The inner artist is not the voice of comfort.
Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.
I will always support legalization of the entheogens, which are, without a doubt, the most important and the most grossly misunderstood medicines on earth.
The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator
Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
A fully engaged imagination is essential to the spiritual practice of the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana School, whose artistic tradition is in service of consciousness transformation.
It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.
I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
For some people, maybe my artwork just seems like fantasy or something. However, if you have had any kind of a mystical or cosmic experience, I guess, then people seem to recognize the territory.
A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.
Folks who are alive today need to wake up and do what they can to stop abusing the planet, and find ways to preserve the web of life. That's where the soul is headed. It is time for us to become wounded healers.
You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also what you are as well. And when the mystic eye is open and sees that, a person is forever changed !
Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit.
My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the multi-dimensional imaginal realms that pull us toward consciousness evolution.
Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.
When you see the face of God, or when you have an overwhelming, ecstatic, blissful, visionary experience; there is no doubt about it. It isn't like, 'Did it happen?' It's unforgettable. And you are a changed person in some way.