“Why I Take Up the Camera”

I take up the camera not to acquire a piece of the world, but to know the Light as it radiates through the matrix of Nature; not to observe but to serve the Light with a pure heart. And as it burns away all traces of my once conditioned thoughts and pre-conceptions, I realize I take up the camera not to see the Light but to be Light.  I take it up not to confirm what is known by way of the senses, but as a meditation to enter the deep unheard recesses of higher mind; to pass through the world of separate finite forms into the subtle dimensions which make us whole and connect all life to the infinite unknown. I take up the camera to focus within, and refine my perception of Light and the infinite Consciousness and capacity that is the essence of our human totality; that fiber of being vibrating through all of Nature, and the one Subject from which all others emerge. 

Yes, there is a distant sun whose warmth we feel, stars too, and mechanical moons all around us, but we are also, each one of us, evolutes of Light, part of a slowly waking radiance we live to project like the sun.  Whether with a camera, a paint brush, as a mother, a healer, or someone who serves others with an open heart, we light the way with our slowly waking radiance. We transform and are ever transforming to awaken further; to lift the limits of who we are, to rise out of the shadows of the self and become the suns of a nascent dawn. We look for the Light in Nature without knowing our own capacity to self-illuminate; without knowing that we are looking at our own human nature. To perceive the true Nature of life outside us, we must first focus within.  There, new rays wait to shine forth…to fire the sparks of new impressions and new experiences of a more luminous reality. 

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