Spiritual Art Blog - *Ed P

Angel of imagination

Picture

A friend asked me to do a picture of an angel. It’s not a subject I’ve done a lot of pictures of. The only one directly relating to an angel is Cloud Angel. Here is a rough sketch of the concept that came to mind for the picture.

 

Steps of Experience

Thought for the week
Every experience is a step to help us get a better understanding of life and ourselves. Our steps of experience help us build a solid foundation on our path through life. With each experience we learn something,

Relationships
One of the key insights life is trying to teach us is that we are Soul, a divine element of God. Not only are we divine but so is every other person around us. We are all Souls struggling to realise we are a spark of God. Our relationships with people help us see the divine in others. This is especially true in our loving friendships where our friends share their love with us. Love brightens our world and as we go through numerous experiences with those Souls we learn more about the love that flows between us.

Painful steps of experience
Many of us have more pain than joy in our lives. If we can see the pain as a learning experience we get a glimpse of the building blocks on our pathway through life. When we think about it, most of our real progress in life has come from when we have found our way out of a problem or gotten through the pain. We have learned how to deal with that problem and we will know what to do when we meet it again. That experience has given us a solid foundation on which we can build our path in life. From here we can go on to the next step in our life to see where it leads.

In our life we are constantly striving for happiness. We are looking for anything that will bring light and love into our lives. We see a light and we go for it, like a moth drawn to the light in a dark night. Each step we take in the direction of the light teaches us something. It helps us get closer to the happiness we seek.

Different experiences
Different experiences fit in different parts of our lives. For example, if we are out for walk and our route takes us past some trees, a few shops and a river, along the way we can have different experiences which fit into different parts of our lives. As we pass the trees we may:
smell the scent from them,
notice some birds in among the branches,
some leaves may stroke us as we pass,
we may trip in a fallen branch.

At the shops we
notice some headlines in the newspapers,
we may buy something at a special price,
we may meet a friend,
have a chat with the shop staff.

By the river we…
notice the sound of the water,
we see a small waterfall with its white falling water creating a swirl of bubbles,
we may see insects and birds along the banks,
there could be animals and fish to be seen,
we may spend some time peacefully watching the waters flow by.

All of these little experiences can help us move forward. The tress with its scent, branches and leaves can remind us of the wonders of nature. The trip over the branch can tell us to keep our attention here in this world while we admire the beauty of creation. The headlines in the paper may instil some fear of something that may or may not happen. The person we meet can give us some information or even a look or word of kindness which helps brighten our day. By the river we see how life continues for all the animals, birds and fish. They have their lives to live and learn from. We are all in this river of life going through numerous experiences and learning from each.

Our paths cross and we share experiences. We may have a long term relationship with some, whether as friends, colleagues, competitors or enemies. We learn from each other and the steps of experience we share help us become wiser and move closer to our goal of happiness.

Enjoyable steps of experiences
Love is the one key component which can make every step we take a fruitful and insightful experience. When we discover love, pure detached divine love, which holds our lives together we see life as a blessing. With this divine love flowing into our lives and into every aspect of what we do, it can’t but bring a joy and a sense of love to every experience we go through. Adding love to our steps of experiences, adds a joy to each step. The experience of love teaches us that there is a beautiful spirit in life. It can turn misery into a miracle, sadness to sweetness and hurt into humour.

All these steps of experience add together so we can build our pathway through life and to our goal of happiness. With each experience we add another step. We are adding to our wisdom and insights on an ongoing basis. If we can see that life is for learning and the love behind it, we transform our life into a path filled with light and love. Love is the sunlight which brightens all our steps of experience on our path through life.

Wishing you love in all your experiences in life.

*Ed Parkinson

If you enjoyed Steps of Experience, click here to experience more insightful articles on the Spiritual Writings page.

Inspirational Experience Quotes

“Earth is a schoolroom. We're here to have every possible experience. That's how Soul finds spiritual purification and becomes godlike in the end.”
Harold Klemp

"Thy experience is nothing less than thy own choices and thoughts made visible"
Paul Twitchell

“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.”
Alfred Sheinwold

“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.”
Aldous Leonard Huxley

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
Douglas Adams

“The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.”
Anon

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
Auguste Rodin

“Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.”
Anon

“Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.”
Rita Mae Brown

“If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.”
Doug Rader

“Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”
Pete Seeger

“Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.”
Soren Kierkegaard

“Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.”
Robert Brault

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
Mark Twain

“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
Chinese Proverb

“Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.”
Anon

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”
Herb Caen

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
John Gardner

“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.”
Laurence J. Peter

“Life is trying things to see if they work.”
Ray Bradbury

“We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that.”
Bernard Malamud

“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.”
Abigail Van Buren

“Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.”
Clarence Day


Click here to experience some more insightful quotes on the Inspirations Page. 

Arty Party

If you didn’t get to the Arty Party over the weekend of the 10^th to 12^th June this 5 minute video will walk you through the exhibition of pictures. With the music of Rodney Jones to accompany us, it is like a spiritual experience. Enjoy.

Steps of Experience

I’m making the final steps towards finishing this picture Steps of Experience. If you double click the image it will open nice and big in a new window.

Death in dreams point to a new life.

Thought for the week


One of the disturbing dreams we can have is seeing or meeting death in dreams. This can take the form of being at a funeral, seeing someone die or some how meeting our own death by accident or other means. When we see other people die, this usually means that our relationship with that person is dead or dying. We are moving on from our old relationship into something new. The way we have looked to that person is about to change.

If we are the person meeting death in dreams, it can point to something we need to face in life. A fear or situation which is holding us back from progressing on to the next stage in our lives. It may be something small or significant, but it is something we need to deal with.

Funeral of my father
Many years ago I had a dream where I was at the funeral of my father. It was disturbing as I loved my Dad and we had a pretty good relationship together. I was relieved to see up and well the next morning. During this time I had started to work away from home, coming back at the weekends. I was beginning to establish my independence from my family and particularly my Dad, who would have given me jobs around the farm up to this point. Our relationship was changing. I was becoming more independent, a little more mature and our reliance on each other was changing. My old thinking and attitudes to Dad were dying.

After a while I realised that what I had seen in the dream was the death of how I used to look at my Dad. My old attitudes to him were changing, our relationship was taking on a new life. We were learning to live independently of each other. The funeral I saw in my dream was the death of my old attitudes and attachments to my father. It marked the birth of a new relationship together.

When we die in a dream
What is behind our own death in dreams? This can be a very liberating dream. The fact that we are now awake and still alive proves that we didn’t actually die. It illustrates that our dream death is a symbol for something. It can be very liberating because it can mean that we are moving on from our current position in life. Our current attitudes, attachments, and thinking are about to die. We are progressing on to a new way of thinking with new insights. This is a spiritual rebirth where our inner world is renewed with fresh thinking, new ideas and increased awareness.

At a recent meeting a lady told of how she had a feeling that she would die giving birth to the child she was carrying. She even wrote letters to her children so they would have something from their mother to remember her by. She went through the birth as normal and everything went fine. However her life did change. Not long after that she divorced her husband which brought a lot of changes. The birth of her new child marked the death of her old self. She started a new life as her old life died away.

Nightmares
Some of us have nightmares where we are fleeing for our lives, trying to stay alive but we often end up badly, falling or screaming to our death in dreams, only to wake up, back in our body. This kind of nightmare can often become a reoccurring nightmare until we are able to sort it out or deal with it. This is not easy to do but with determination and a good spiritual exercise we can overcome this fear.

While in the dream we have to turn to face this fear we are running away from. An excellent and simple spiritual exercise to help us meet our fears is the HU Song. If we can have the presence of mind while dealing with death in dreams to sing HU, it can often help turn the situation from being fearful to one where we are more in control. The HU connects us to our higher self, Soul, which gives us strength, insights and the courage to deal with the issue at hand.

Getting into the daily habit of using the HU to centre ourselves will reflect in our inner lives too. If we have the habit of singing HU and seeing the good it brings into our lives, it will naturally occur to us in our dreams to sing HU. This can help change the nightmare into a insightful and fulfilling experience. The HU Song can bring relief to us in this world and the dream worlds.

Dying but we are not concerned
In some dreams we may be in a situation where someone or something close to us is dying but we are not concerned. We may even be happy to see the death in dreams. When we wake up we become upset at the thought of being so uncaring about such a serious matter. We need to remember that in our dream worlds things are more flexible and the things we see dying are really a symbol for something else, such as an attitude, an attachment to something or someone, a relationship or a situation. The fact that we are happy to see these die in our dreams shows that this is a natural progression of things at that level. The things involved may not actually die but our attitude or relationship with them will change, probably for the better of all involved.

The symbol of death in dreams can be very liberating for us. It usually means we are moving on in our inner or spiritual development. The fact that we are still alive after going through our own death in a dream can help to prove to us that death is not permanent. We do continue to live and survive the experience. If we can see death as a part of how we progress through life we will lose the fear it has over us. Death gets rid of the old and brings us a birth into the new.

Wishing you love and happiness in every rebirth you go through in life.

*Ed Parkinson

If you found some insights in this article on death in dreams, click here to find more in the Spiritual Writings page.

Death and Dreams Quotes

“At the base level, the physical body dies. People then take up residence on the Astral Plane. It’s pretty much the same as here, except they may take on a younger appearance… This explains why you see your loved ones or even pets in your dreams after they have passed on.”
Harold Klemp

“Soul is a marvellous, unlimited being. You and I are Soul, and as Soul we have the ability to visit the heavenly worlds in our dreams. Many people have visited loved ones in their drems, whether alive on this earth or not!”
Debbie Johnson

“The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter”
Yiddish Proverb

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death.”
Robert Fulghum

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There is only one dream I can guarantee...my death.”
Stephen Evans

“Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming."
Virgil

“Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.”
Donald A. Miller

“Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.”
David Assael

“Life is a dream walking death is a going home.”
Chinese Proverb

“To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;”
William Shakespeare

“As other's lives are often only dreams to us, so also others' deaths.”
Josephine Hart

“Someday I'll be a weather-beaten skull resting on a grass pillow,
Serenaded by a stray bird or two.
Kings and commoners end up the same,
No more enduring than last night's dream.”
Ryokan

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”
Victor Hugo

“Never the spirit was born, the spirit shall cease to be never. Never was time it was not, end and beginning are dreams.”
The Bhagavad Gita

“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.”
Judy Garland

If you enjoyed these quotes about death and dreams, click here to go to the Spiritual Inspirations page for more quotes.

Steps of Experience

Picture

With the Arty Party preparations taking up a lot of time, I didn’t get much of a chance to work on Steps of Experience but I do have a new fashion statement for you…

Learning from Life

Thought for the week

We are learning from life. Things in life are trying to point us in a direction which will teach us something and help us to become more aware of who and what we are.

Things happen FOR me
If we can change our thinking from “Things happen to me in life” to “Things happen FOR me in life” we will get a better understanding of what life is trying to teach us. We may have plans to do certain things or get things done, but stuff happens and we don’t arrive where we planed to be at a particular point. If we can now look at where we are and see what we have to do and why we didn’t get to our goal, we will begin to learn something. With this attitude we won’t have a build up of stress and frustration. Our thinking is “This isn’t where I expected to be but it is where I am now. What is here for me to learn or become aware of? How do I get to my goal from here or does this change my direction?”

With this attitude we are seeing life as an educational process. We are learning something every day. Some of our lessons can be very hard and difficult. They may seem impossible, so we leave them till another day. This can work well for some situations. If we see easier lessons as part of the process of learning how to deal with the bigger lesson, we will eventually get to a point where we can take on the harder lesson. The little steps we have taken to walk over the hill will help us walk over the mountain.

Our learning from life continues
The sudden arrival of an event or situation can often point to a movement up a level or into a new area of learning. We are now faced with new circumstances, new challenges, new tasks, and new things to deal with. We are constantly learning, whether we realise it or not. Our learning from life continues. If we think back on our life now and where we were in our thinking when we were ten years younger, there may be a significant difference. Out thinking as a child is different from our thinking as a teenager. When we get into our twenties our attitudes and expectations from life will change. As we live more we learn more.

Life becomes more of an adventure
If we can link our thinking to our intuition life becomes more of an adventure. For example, we have left our house to get transport to go to a place to do something. As we get to a crossroads we know the transport is to the right but we have a feeling we should go to the left. We look around for signs to confirm this intuition. A piece of golden pager blows against our feet then continues its dance with the wind along the road to the right. This could be a sign that a golden opportunity is to be fond to the left.

Taking decisions like this makes live an adventure. We are opening up our communication with life and by using our intuition we are connecting with our true happy part Soul. With Soul’s overall view of life and its intuitive messages we get closer to the heart of life and what it is teaching us.

How can we tune into this?
How can we tune into this learning from life? If we can spend some time every day in quiet contemplation we will open the door, little by little, to the learning from life. The HU Song is an ideal way to start. It can also be useful in helping us stay centred when we are going through the tough lessons we are learning.

This thinking or awareness that we are learning from life can help ease the frustration we may feel when things don’t work out according to plan. If we can search for what we need to learn and apply ourselves to going through the lesson, we will have a more productive life. We will be happier despite the fact that our outer life may seem to be falling asunder, with the awareness of the lessons we are learning and the progress we are making in our own development, we can find happiness.

Wishing you a love and happiness as you go through your learning from life.

*Ed Parkinson

Looking for more learning from life? Click here to go to the Spiritual Writings page where you’ll find many more articles about life and learning.

Arty Party Success

We had the Arty Party over the weekend with several people coming along each day. The demonstration of how I create the pictures was very well received. I used the picture Glimpse of God (which is on the right in the photo above) as an example of how I work. From the initial inspiration from Gabriel Ezutha’s book, Trail of Immortality, through the creation of the initial rough sketches and to the final image. I showed the software and equipment I use and how it works.
Next week I hope to have a video of the exhibition so those of you who couldn’t make it will get an Idea of the Arty Party.

We learn from life quotes

“The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape this life but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it.”
 Harold Klemp

“Each human being is soul, an immortal likeness of God, invested in the body for the sole purpose of spiritual education. Upon graduation, after several lifetimes of trial and error, we become like our favourite saints, mystics, and masters.”
 Gabriel Ezutah

“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study.  Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.” 

 Henry L. Doherty

“Life is simple, it's just not easy.”
 Anon

“When the student is ready, the master appears.”
 Buddhist Proverb

“Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.  You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.”
 Vilfredo Pareto

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
 Jacob Bronowski

“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.”
 Antisthenes

“Im always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
 Winston Churchill

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”
 Mortimer Adler

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
 Willa Cather

“There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.”
 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.”
 George Herbert Palmer

“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.”
 Vernon Howard

“No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.”
 Frances Willard

“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
 Dudley Field Malone

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.  That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.”
 Thomas Szasz

“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others.  You won't have time to make them all yourself.”
 Alfred Sheinwold

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
 John Gardner

“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.”
 Anon

“Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.”
 Robert Brault

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.”
 Samuel Butler



If you  would like to learn more wisdom form other writers and quote, plese click her to visit our Spiritual Inspirations page.

We learn from life quotes

 

 

“The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape this life but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it.”

 Harold Klemp

 

“Each human being is soul, an immortal likeness of God, invested in the body for the sole purpose of spiritual education. Upon graduation, after several lifetimes of trial and error, we become like our favourite saints, mystics, and masters.”

 Gabriel Ezutah

 

“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study.  Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”  ~Henry L. Doherty

 

“Life is simple, it's just not easy.”

 Anon

 

“When the student is ready, the master appears.”

 Buddhist Proverb

 

“Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.  You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.”

 Vilfredo Pareto

 

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”

 Jacob Bronowski

 

“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.”

 Antisthenes

 

“Im always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

 Winston Churchill

 

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

 Mortimer Adler

 

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”

 Willa Cather

 

“There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.”

 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

“I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.”

 George Herbert Palmer

 

“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.”

 Vernon Howard

 

“No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.”

 Frances Willard

 

“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”

 Dudley Field Malone

 

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.  That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.”

 Thomas Szasz

 

“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others.  You won't have time to make them all yourself.”

 Alfred Sheinwold

 

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”

 John Gardner

 

“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.”

 Anon

 

“Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.”

 Robert Brault

 

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.”

 Samuel Butler

 

 

 

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Steps of Experience

The characters in Steps of Experience are developing a strange dress sense. What do you think of this outfit?

Angels, Inner Guides and Masters

Thought for the week

Many of us have someone we turn to in times of trouble, a friend or relative. Some of us have Angels, Inner Guides and Masters who help us through our tough times in life. We have an inner relationship which we use to seek guidance on issues in life. This is someone we can trust, who will listen to us and possibly give us some direction 

Below are a few examples of different people and how they interact with their guardian angels, inner guides and masters.

A Friend who Died
Michelle has a friend who died about five years ago, who gives her inner guidance regularly. “He’s just here on my shoulder suggesting things and giving me guidance. He’s my guardian angel. We often argue, like you and I do. He might say something about God and I don’t believe in God, so we argue over things like that. He is a great help to me in the down times, when I get depressed. When I feel nobody loves me, he is always there for me. I get messages from him in so many ways. When I talk with him he makes me happy.”

Jesus faded from my life
Our relationship with our angel can change as we develop. Frank explained how as a child his inner friend was Jesus who he turned to when there was trouble in his family, in school or with his friends. “I was grateful to Jesus for my Christian faith and he was someone to pray to for deliverance out of the problems that were in my life. As I got older, in my late teens I began asking questions such as, What is life all about? Why are we here? Who am I? What is the point of my living? At this time Jesus faded from my life. While I respected Jesus as a spiritual teacher and am thankful for the help he gave in my youth, the Christian teachings didn’t answer my questions.”

“After a lot of searching I came across a spiritual path called Eckankar. The spiritual leader of Eckankar is considered a prophet. He teaches spirituality for people today and how to connect with and understand our outer and inner lives. The prophet or the Living Eck Master, as he is called, acts as a guide in my outer life by writing books and giving seminars and talks. He also acts as my inner guide, who gives me guidance and answers to my spiritual questions. This works well for me as now I have access to wisdom and insights my former path has no idea about.”

My Inner Guide is leading me
Martin explains how he sees all life as his inner guide. “It’s like life is my interface with the Holy Spirit. Life is an ongoing series of experiences so that I can discover how life works and who I am. I go through some challenges, some pleasant times, some insightful times but they are all interesting. I learn something from them all. Whatever happens I am always curious as to why it happens and where it leads, who I meet, how we interact and how we develop as a result. Life or my Inner Guide is leading me along a path for my own benefit. I just need to keep that awareness with me all the time. When I look at life that way, somehow it makes sense.”

Why do we need angels?
Inner guides and spiritual masters can give us a lot of insights and direction in life. They offer wisdom which we would otherwise not have access to. We recognise that there is more to life than just surviving on a physical level. If we want to be better informed and how to deal with situations in life, then someone with a lot more wisdom, a higher viewpoint and who wishes the best for us, is defiantly recommended. It can be like having a personal advisor for every situation in life.

How can we find our angels?
To start a relationship with an inner guide, inner master or angels we have to invite them. These are highly ethical a and spiritually evolved beings and respect our space and freedom. They do not intrude in our lives uninvited. We could make a request like “I would like guidance on this particular situation. I invite … (here state the name of someone you have in mind) or a similar higher Soul who can give me guidance with this issue.” From here on we need to keep our awareness turned up so that we can pick up any subtle thoughts or insights which come to us. It takes practice to decipher the messages coming through our mind and deciding which is guidance and which is mental garbage. We will also require patience as we sift through the endless thoughts and messages but if we persist we will begin to see a pattern and get to know how our angel works with us. Once we get our relationship established we will have a new friend who will add wisdom, light and love to our lives.

All our angels, inner guides and masters are a way the Holy Spirit or the Life-force uses to communicate with us. We as humans need a human interface to communicate with us. We are used to talking with humans so the Divine provides a human form which comes to us as an angel, inner guide or a master. As our relationship with this enlightened Soul develops and we follow their suggestions, we begin to trust their guidance more and more, we can see how they are helping us find more happiness in life. The love, light, insights and guidance we receive from our inner guides are a real blessing in our lives.

Wishing you a blessed relationship with your inner guide.

*Ed Parkinson

You’ll find more insights into angels in this article “Using our Inner Guide to help us lead a happier life”.

Dont' forget! the Arty Party is this coming weekend, see you there.

 

The Arty Party will take place over the weekend from Friday evening 10th to Sunday 12th June. On Friday we’ll open the Arty Party around 6pm so you can drop in on your way home from work, or call in later for some wine and foody bits.

On Saturday and Sunday we’ll be open from 2pm until 6pm. It’ll be something nice to do in the afternoon.

At the Arty Party we’ll have videos explaining the thinking and ideas behind some of the pictures. There will also be a demonstration where Ed hopes to answer the question he gets asked the most “How do you create the pictures?”

Ed will be around to answer questions and give insights into the pictures.

If you'd like an invitation, please email ed @ edp-art.com or send a note via the Your Comments page on the website, www.EdP-SpiritualArt.Com.

 Below is a Google map to help find youir way.

View Arty Party in a larger map

 

Here is a video of the last Arty Party in November

Inner Guide and Angel wisdom

“But when the Master does come, the experience is simply different than anything the mind could mock up. The Master is found to be quite a good friend, and you feel naturally comfortable with him.”
Harold Klemp

“As I fondly think about Chiva (my inner guide) and all he showed and thought me as well as all the future encounters and enlightenment that will follow, I know I will never love anything or another person more that I love this great being of light, wisdom, freedom, and spiritual power, eternally known as the dream master.”
Gabriel Ezutah

“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”
George Elliot

“Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you.”
Eileen Elias Freeman

“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone.”
William Blake

“Angels have no philosophy but love.”
Terri Guillemets

“It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.”
Voltaire

“The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.”
Meister Eckhart

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
Luciano de Crescenzo

“All God's angels come to us disguised.”
James Russell Lowell

“The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.”
Eric Honeycutt

“In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.”
George Bernard Shaw

“An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.”
St Thomas Aquinas

“Ask them to give you new ideas, or help make difficult decisions. Let yourself be surprised by the answers you receive. Your guide may not always tell you what you want or expect to hear.”
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“Thus it's good to remind ourselves that we always have an inner guide at the core of us that knows everything—where to go, what to do, how to do it—at each moment.”
 Jim Sloman
 
“We all want to find peace in our lives. Part of that finding of peace with in ourselves comes from trusting our Inner Guide, and the higher power that you believe in to lead you down the right path.”
Pamela J. Leavey

“Be willing to ask the questions that you need to feel guided by Spirit - the answers you seek will come rushing toward you when you're in authentic communication."
Dr Wayne Dyer

“Each of us has an inner guide. You have an intuitive part of yourself that reflects a higher wisdom. To make contact with your inner guide all you have to do is simply invite this presence to join you.”
David McGraw

“The Inner Guide or Higher Self is the most sacred aspect of the personality. It is the function nature makes available to help us awaken divine awareness and fulfil our highest destiny in life. The more we are able to consciously work with our Inner Guide the easier we find our purpose in life and the more focused our actions become in generating personal benefit and benefit to others.”
I Ching Dao

For more inspirational words about angels , guides and masters have a look at the Inspirations Page.