the undefended heart

62w x 65

$800

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root down

72w x 90

original not for sale

giclée prints are available in a variety of sizes

Father Reason

by Rumi

The universe is a form of divine law,

your reasonable father.

When you feel ungrateful to him,

the shapes of the world seem mean and ugly.

Make peace with that father, the elegant patterning,

and every experience will fill with immediacy.

Because I love this, I am never bored.

Beauty constantly wells up like the noise of springwater

in my ear. Tree limbs rise and fall like ecstatic arms.

Leaf sounds talk together like poets

making fresh metaphors.

The green felt cover slips;

we get a flash of the mirror underneath.

The conventional opinion of this poetry

is that it shows great optimism for the future.

But Father Reasons says, No need to announce the future.

This now is it. Your deepest need and desire

is satisfied by this moment's energy

here in your hand.

translated by Coleman Barks

pure being

61w x 84

$3000

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Koru - the unfolding fern frond in Maori design.

Between the chaos of change and calm of pure being, there is a point of equilibrium, a state of harmony in life. In its balanced shape, the koru represents this.

all paintings are for sale - please contact me at firewoodartstudio@gmail.com for prices

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new mexico sky

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Three Birds

Acrylic on canvas 30”h x 48”w

$500

flow

kundalini rising

illumine

48w x 63

$800

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vigilance/ the beauty of the night sky

63”w x 73” h

$2500

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This painting is brought to you by the night sky, by the feminine, the mystery, the unspoken. by the dream and the power of receiving. it is brought to you by secret messages passed on the stars. it is brought to you by the endless deep that turns in on itself and surrounds all being.

it is brought to you by the deer - using her power of gentleness to touch the hearts of the wounded ones, the wounded places so that the light may shine through brighter and brighter .

it is brought to you by compassion and softness, sweet open presence. it is brought to you by love.

This painting is brought to you by a focusing. Eliminating distraction, homing in on what is essential and profound. There is a strength and vigilance, a deep, deep calling to speak the Truth, live the Truth of who we are.

This painting is brought to you by this calling.

It is brought to you by the snake - the energy of wholeness & cosmic consciousness. It is brought to you by the deep understanding that what seems like poison may be welcomed, integrated, and transformed within. There is no need to resist what is, let it have you completely.

It is brought to you by the all consuming, all transmuting fire. By the cloak of responsibility to live as nothing less than the recognition of universal consciousness in all, as all, from all, and returning to all. Untouched by what comes and goes.

It is brought to you by the word, Yes, flowing up from deep in the heart. Yes.

This painting is brought to you by the word "flow". By curves and loops and allowing the brush to effortlessly dance its way down the canvas. It is brought to you by the liquid pouring of the paint - red and gold - gushing, dripping out into the world.
It is brought to you by a sense of abandon, surrender, who cares how it all turns out. It is brought to you by the great relief of not being in charge of anything, of stopping, everything. It is brought to you by the endless chasm of space that opens up when the mind stops. The silence. The peace.
It is brought to you by the stillness.

fire on the mountain

62w x 50

sold

already home

47w x 62

$1000

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already home, already free

source

65w x 59

$1800

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I am the breath of your breath

grace

63w x 79

$2000

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Grace is something that comes to us when we find ourselves completely available,

In this gap of not knowing, in the suspension of any conclusion, a whole other element of life and reality can rush in.

This is what I call Grace.

-Adyashanti

essence

63w x 80

$2000

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"There is something about you more bright than the sun and more mysterious than the night sky. You have surely suspected such things in secret, but have you fallen completely into your mysterious essence?"

Adyashanti - "Emptiness Dancing

peace

24 x 36

sold

jellyfish

sold - then lost in a hurricane

giclée prints are available in a variety of sizes

Jellyfish’s medicine includes – sensitivity to water energy (emotions), understanding of the value of floating rather than swimming through trying emotional times, proper use of softness (not being rigid), ability to become untangled from the webs of peril in life, acceptance and faith.

from www.shamanicjourney.com

ocean of love

62w x 67

$2000

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sink deep into the heart and know that who you are is endless love

There is no one that sees these paintings or reads these words that is not the same ocean of love that creates them

whisper and dance

59w x 72

$2800

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be still

36.5w x 61

$500

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awakening

62w x 72

$3000

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"The human being is what links consciousness to its own infinite expressions in form. Through the form of an awake human being, consciousness becomes conscious of itself as both formlessness and all forms.......everything is divine, whole and complete."
Adyashanti
The Impact of Awakening