(Pencil on paper, by am, Life Drawing in the Fine Arts Department in the evenings at Western Washington University in the late 1980s)
"In Celtic thought the body is an echo of the soul. It is born and dies, and in that sense is passing like an echo, but it carries within it the sounds of the eternal."
"While we may cherish our various rich religious inheritances, the essence of our being cannot be contained by the boundaries of religion. The soul is neither Jewish nor Christian, neither Muslim nor Hindu. It defies the limitations of any one tradition. As the 14th century mystic Meister Eckhart says, 'the soul is naked of all things that bear names.'"
(J. Philip Newell)
