Including this mandala by Emma Hack because I've been thinking about Jung's assertion that mandalas represent the 'Centre' or the Self.
Previously I've thought of God as being the Centre.
I've never really allowed it to 'filter through' before, the idea that God and the higher Self are one and the same. That spiritual traditions like Buddhism make mention of 'the God within.'
I think (yet another 'think' to go and look up) that Jung referred to the relationship between God and the human psyche / soul as being comparable to that between the ocean and a drop of water...
I believe a similar concept is expressed in the phrase 'Brahman is Atman' or 'Atman is Brahman.'
Today is a day to celebrate my drop of water, and the ocean it points to, or relates to, or contains.
(The important thing for me with reflections like these is to allow them to drip or filter through me, rather than overthink them, overwrite... Using my brain too much and my intuition too little is what has led to anxiety in the past...)
['Exotic bird' by Emma Hack, 2010. Downloaded 11th May 2010, from:
http://www.franceskeevilart.com.au/emma_hack.htm].
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