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Tim Merry poem at ALIA 2011.

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Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:21:27 -0700 Meredith Monk: Art as Spiritual Practice http://thomasart.posterous.com/meredith-monk-art-as-spiritual-practice http://thomasart.posterous.com/meredith-monk-art-as-spiritual-practice The beauty of a live performing situation is the possibility of complete disaster at every moment. When you’re making a film or a recording, at a certain point you can cut out everything you don’t like. It becomes a fixed form. But in live performance everything is real, present tense, you’re seeing people on a kind of tightrope, you’re experiencing that. Vulnerability is such a beautiful aspect of a live performance. The performers exist and everyone in the audience exists ; we’re all in the same space at the same time. We’re sharing that time and space together. The experience ultimately becomes like a figure 8, an infinity sign, that just goes back and forth, back and forth, comes around, and comes back around again.

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Tue, 04 May 2010 10:55:16 -0700 Shaking clumps of dirt from my rooted identities I wander through the ponderosa grove in fresh bewilderment. http://thomasart.posterous.com/shaking-clumps-of-dirt-from-my-rooted-identit http://thomasart.posterous.com/shaking-clumps-of-dirt-from-my-rooted-identit
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Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:31:26 -0700 Riding with Joy on the Edge Above Deep Roots http://thomasart.posterous.com/riding-with-joy-on-the-edge-above-deep-roots http://thomasart.posterous.com/riding-with-joy-on-the-edge-above-deep-roots
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Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:17:27 -0700 Thomas Merton http://thomasart.posterous.com/thomas-merton-13 http://thomasart.posterous.com/thomas-merton-13
"In silence we face and admit the gap between the depth of our being, which we consistently ignore, and the surface which is untrue to our own reality. We recognize the need to be at home with ourselves in order that we may go out to meet others, not just with a mask of affability, but with real commitment and authentic love. That is the reason for choosing silence."

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Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:11:00 -0700 Magnetics of a Subtle Reach / Drawing Down an Imaginal Storm http://thomasart.posterous.com/magnetics-of-a-subtle-reach-drawing-down-the http://thomasart.posterous.com/magnetics-of-a-subtle-reach-drawing-down-the

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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:15:24 -0800 It is Born (Pablo Neruda) http://thomasart.posterous.com/it-is-born-pablo-neruda http://thomasart.posterous.com/it-is-born-pablo-neruda Here I came to the very edge
where nothing at all needs saying,
everything is absorbed through weather and the sea,
and the moon swam back,
its rays all silvered,
and time and again the darkness would be broken
by the crash of a wave,
and every day on the balcony of the sea,
wings open, fire is born,
and everything is blue again like morning.

Pablo Neruda

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Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:30:35 -0800 Emerson on Collective Intelligence http://thomasart.posterous.com/emerson-on-collective-intelligence http://thomasart.posterous.com/emerson-on-collective-intelligence
And so in groups where debate is earnest, and especially on high questions, the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal level in all bosoms, that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought, in which every heart beats with nobler sense of power and duty, and thinks and acts with unusual solemnity. All are conscious of attaining to a higher self-possession. It shines for all. There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education often labors to silence and obstruct. The mind is one, and the best minds, who love truth for its own sake, think much less of property in truth.

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Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:58:39 -0800 Emerson: The Over-Soul http://thomasart.posterous.com/emerson-the-over-soul http://thomasart.posterous.com/emerson-the-over-soul
As with events, so is it with thoughts. When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner; not a cause, but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water; that I desire and look up, and put myself in the attitude of reception, but from some alien energy the visions come.

The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest, as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart, of which all sincere conversation is the worship, to which all right action is submission; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to pass for what he is, and to speak from his character, and not from his tongue, and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand, and become wisdom, and virtue, and power, and beauty. We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. Only by the vision of that Wisdom can the horoscope of the ages be read, and by falling back on our better thoughts, by yielding to the spirit of prophecy which is innate in every man, we can know what it saith. Every man's words, who speaks from that life, must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. I dare not speak for it. My words do not carry its august sense; they fall short and cold. Only itself can inspire whom it will, and behold! their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind. Yet I desire, even by profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity, and to report what hints I have collected of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the Highest Law.

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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:10:00 -0800 Community of Allofme http://thomasart.posterous.com/elemental-creativity http://thomasart.posterous.com/elemental-creativity

elemental entities

binding as identities

perpetually i forget to see

arising multiplicity


my branching elementaries

a thriving hive of honey bees

enchanted possibility

of rising creativity

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Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:21:12 -0800 allofmy http://thomasart.posterous.com/allofmy http://thomasart.posterous.com/allofmy

allofmy fragments finding a nest
allofmy gifts brought forward
allofmy fears devoured in the fire
allofmy shame: RELEASED

allofmy gratitude
allofmy heart
allofmy wholeness
allofmy part

allofmy wickedness
allofmy sin
allofmy christian conditioning: RELEASED

allofmy knowing
allofmy pain
allofmy practice
again is a gain
allofmy touches
allofmy tears
allofmy teachers
allofmy years

allofmyjoy
allofmybliss
allofmymemory
comesdowntothis

a deep pool of love
a circle of heart
allofmy pieces
returned to the start
allofmy wholeness
my holiest wholes
allofmy fullness
the fullest of fulls
allofmy knowing
and dreaming and flowing
and flowering showering
powering towering
lifting and drifting
and touching the ground
sensing a fire
spinnin' up round and round


all of my actions:
guided, direct, bold,
aligned with deep purpose and passion


dear circle of my soul,
i am opened in grace,
overflowing with aliveness.

softened, loosened, enlivened, in motion

born upon this balance

asi thomas
earth moon sun

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Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:58:28 -0800 Cultural and Familial Induced Shame for Living Fully into Authentic, Unique Expressions of Self: r e l e a s e d http://thomasart.posterous.com/cultural-and-familial-induced-shame-for-livin http://thomasart.posterous.com/cultural-and-familial-induced-shame-for-livin
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Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:57:00 -0800 Golden Flowering of the Prime Directive // Persistence of Wonder Guiding My Motions http://thomasart.posterous.com/golden-flowering-of-the-prime-directive-persi http://thomasart.posterous.com/golden-flowering-of-the-prime-directive-persi

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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:28:41 -0700 Eagle Cove Sunset http://thomasart.posterous.com/eagle-cove-sunset http://thomasart.posterous.com/eagle-cove-sunset
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