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Spiritual leaders throughout the centuries have perceived
themselves as conduits for conveying the most important lesson humankind can
ever learn:
- How to
create an empowered peaceful planet
- How to
create a heaven on earth
Most
have used words to convey their lessons.
- Jesus
taught in parables.
- Socrates
used questions.
- Zen
Buddhists used koans and haiku.
- The Buddha
used statements such as, "I am aware."
- Confucius
used rules.
- The
Catholic Church uses rituals.
- The Vedic
tradition uses mantras.
- Kahlil
Gibran used poetry.
- Hermann
Hesse used novels.
- Friedrich
Nietzsche used thesis and antithesis.
But all
these words are only fingers pointing at the moon. They are not the moon.
Of course, there are vehicles other than words for conveying the same
message: art, physical confrontation, silence. But for one who chooses the
vehicle of words, how does one use words to show that words are part of the
human dilemma?
Only through word sculptures, context specific art forms
created from the shifting sands of time, emotion and experience. Spiritual
leaders who chose words as their vehicles used word sculptures. They were
masters of the art of personal mastery, the art of personal relationships, and
the art of communication.
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Announcing Janet's new book "Shift: Change Your
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