Fermentation

When we've hopped from gallery to gallery

viewing all the beauty and ugly that one can

what's next except to stop and sit

that fermentation might begin

Who knows the ghosts of Schiele

of Mann or Marks or Jan?

Their subtle impress upon ones soul

might brew inspirations laying still!

Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -Why do you think it's necessary to be poor in order to achieve inner change?  Must one live in a slum? What's the highest salary at which it's possible to encounter God?  This is all ideological twaddle.  Genuine illumination makes one poor instantly; having loses its importance.  Greed is also capable of filling the hearts of the poor who are rich with all they do not yet possess.  What's important is to be open to what takes place, for "Poverty is a great illumination/coming from within." 

  -...it's pointless to imitate the actions of the poor; poverty has to be a new creation, coming to birth in the depths of the soul.  To step forward without anxiety at the high noon of death , in the midst of every human passion.  To accept the world joyously without being duped by its values.

  -The encounter with God is the supreme sign of wealth.  It's better to set out along the road to cover the distance that separates us from him.  And if there's only an abyss under our feet, to cry out or keep silent.  To invite someone to renunciation when the sacrifice is not directed at the good of the other person is to make oneself the accomplice of a deception.  God has no need of sacrifices; men and women do.

  -I don't mind being lumped together with the mass of Christians and feel myself in solidarity with them, but that's no reason not to struggle against false conceptions of love.