<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459700" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the empty studio</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The diffused northern sunlight<br>of this studio at dawn<br>matches the silence and the stillness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">like the speaking silence<br>of the retrochoir behind the altar<br>of a simple white Greek island church –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that has no ornament; simply walls<br>painted in a pale blue wash, <br>the space, the air itself, as radiant with heaven; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">behind the iconostasis – gold and candle and eternal gaze -<br>where praise is prepared; thought surrendered; <br>humility the robe; the sacred word awaits<br>the moment when it’s spoken; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so this studio; and at its centre, calling, <br>stands an easel with a white canvas on it; <br>what waits in this empty studio<br>that’s so full of emptiness that calls? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">what challenges? This canvas<br>waits, as being ever does; full, content, <br>needing nothing but itself…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the silence will accept our spoken word, <br>then return to stillness; <br>the canvas will not be so forgiving; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘make a mark on me that will not diminish<br>my completeness…; so let our being<br>meet, before a mark is made…’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this holy place: only godself may mark<br>this canvas and yet not detract; from space, <br>draw space; or may with colour stain transparent<br>this white white radiance of eternity: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in the place whence all arises, <br>Nothing and Everything smile together<br>in their secret play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459700" data-title="In the empty studio de Michael Shepherd" data-description="The diffused northern sunlight of this studio at dawn matches the silence and the stillness like the speaking silence of the retrochoir behind the altar of a simple white Greek island church – that has no ornament; simply walls painted in a pa..."></div> </div> </div>

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