HOLY
GROUND
THE VISUAL HEALING LIBRARY
VISION BOOK TWELVE
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened.
Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Rumi
Welcome friends.
Sometimes the ground does not need more words.
Sometimes we need to kneel and kiss the ground in the way Rumi invokes and rather than going to the study we need to take down a musical instrument and feel our feet on actual ground so we can remember the beauty and joy of the world.
One of the paths of my joy runs through images - and this volume from The Visual Healing Library invites you to flood your body with HOLY in the divine form of colour, texture and living presence.
Some of the paintings were created in my studio in London, some of the paintings are the creative devotional practice I have developed and teach called Visual Medicine™ and some of the photos are from our last trip to Australia and our encounter with the Mother rock - Uluru and her sisters the Olgas in Central Australia.
Scroll through and journey with me on Holy Ground - to feel into the living radiance of creational intelligence as it flows in its natural organic shape through the body of the world and these paintings.
Every painting and photo here has been collected by me or created by my hand.
I am so glad you are here. We remake the world again and again with the quality of our attention.
With love and all the blessing of Creation,
Suzette xo
Suzette Clough ©️
IMAGINING MYSTERY
There is something
that contains everything
Before heaven and earth
it is.
Oh, it is still, unbodied,
all on its own,
unchanging.
All pervading,
ever moving.
So it can act as the mother
of all things.
Not knowing its real name,
we only call it the Way.
‘Imagining Mystery’ is the title given by Ursula K. Le Guin to I-Ching #25 in A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way her English rendition of the Tao Te Ching.
We have a beautiful
mother
Her hills
are buffaloes
Her buffalo hills.
We have a beautiful
mother
Her oceans
are wombs
Her wombs
oceans.
We have a beautiful
mother
Her teeth
the white stones
at the edge
of the water
the summer
grasses
her plentiful
hair.
We have a beautiful
mother
Her green lap
immense
Her brown embrace
eternal
Her blue body
everything we know.
- Alice Walker -
Buddhist Teacher, Ecologist, Author, Creator of Deep Ecology: Dr Joanna Macy - The Shambhala Prophecy - From: Song for All Beings - Music by Jennifer Berrizen
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