River

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From: heartak.blogspot.com

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..........Water – of all things indeed most divine.
..........Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
..........It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.
..........In dwelling, be close to the land,
..........In meditation, go deep in the Heart.

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....................Tao Te Ching Chapter 8
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A friend looked at this drawing and said he felt sad for the person frozen in the ice.
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I remember feeling some optimism when I made the image; to me, the person’s head was next to the Water of Life, and the process of thawing had begun. The river flowed out of a dark, mysterious place.
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The alchemists talk about ”whitening”, a lunar process of purification, giving the body back its soul. Some of the alchemical writings eerily describe aspects of the drawing:
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..........Take the whiteness and dismiss the darkness…
..........Until it looks like a naked sword, and make by whitening

...............the body as white as snow..

..........The full mooon of the white re-birth.

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