| INDEX of CARD PAGES: click on page number to go to that page |
| © All original artwork and designs on page by charlie elkind |
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| Here are a few more card designs I have to share .... |
| BEAUTY collage and art design (Text on Card) Beauty of the highest order arises out of depths of realization, out of Life itself, it springs from a deep source within, which bears the stamp of truth. quote adapted from Sri Ram by me |
| FREEDOM original collage and design Quote from "Thoughts for Aspirants" by N. Sri Ram (Text on Card) Whatever is spiritual can manifest itself only in a condition of freedom. |
| FIELDS OF ETERNITY photo and digital-collage (Poem on Card by charlie elkind) FIELDS OF ETERNITY I am no-where I am no-one, but one I seek something which cannot be touched, cannot be held cannot be seen. It's always there just out of reach, just out of hearing waiting for us all to join, to rejoice in a field of eternity. |
| PRAY FOR WORLD PEACE original collage and design Quote from "Thoughts for Aspirants" by N. Sri Ram (Text on Card) There cannot be Peace in the world without Peace in our own hearts. |
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| KNOWING NOTHING ABOUT GRAPES original collage and design (Quote on Card by Paracelsius) Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. |
| THE SEED POINT OF INDIVIDUAL EXPRESSION original collage and design Quote from "Thoughts for Aspirants" by N. Sri Ram (Text on Card) Life is a universal energy, but it always has an individual focus or center, in which lies the seed of its individual expression, embodying the type of perfection into which it can flower at that point. |
| THE LANGUAGE OF BEAUTY original collage and design by charlie elkind Quote from "Thoughts for Aspirants" by N. Sri Ram (Text on Card) Art of every sort, when it embodies Beauty, speaks the language of an invisible order in which each thing has its own significant place. |
| TO BECOME TRANSLUCENT original collage and design by charlie elkind Quote from "Thoughts for Aspirants" by N. Sri Ram (Text on Card) We have to become translucent, instead of opaque as we mostly are, and bring about that harmony between the inner and the outer, the higher and the lower, which is a condition of true understanding and fitness. |
| THE LAW OF HARMONY original collage and design Quote adapted from "Thoughts for Aspirants" by N. Sri Ram (Text on Card) Even in the midst of discords and differences there is the operation of a Law of Harmony which ever seeks to restore nature's disturbed equilibrium. |
| AWAKENING TO LIFE'S UNITY original collage work and design (Quote on card by N. Sri Ram) We have to awaken to life's unity, to the beauty of its movements, its delicacy and sensitivity, to the respect it demands in every living form, in the least living thing. |
| FLOWERING OF THE PRESENT MOMENT original collage and design (Quote on card by N. Sri Ram) The flowering of each moment into its own appropriate beauty is the serving of life's highest purpose. |
| FREEING OURSELVES UP TO FIND WHAT WAS ALWAYS THERE original collage and design (Quote on card by N. Sri Ram) One meaning of the Path, is the remembering and reclaiming of the fundamental unity of our being. it's the uncovering of the clouds and contridictions, tightly held within our minds and emotions. |
| TO MAINTAIN OUR HEALTH original collage and design Quote adapted from "Spiritual Healing" by Dora Kunz (Text on Card) To maintain a state of health the energy of all our fields must be incoming, outgoing and freely flowing. These energetic interactions effect our relationships and our atmosphere. |
| OUR FUNDAMENTAL UNITY original photo collage and design Quote by N. Sri Ram from "Thoughts for Aspiriants" (Text on Cover) The world is fundamentally one of human understanding and relationships. People must discover and realize their fundamental unity. |
| SPIRITUAL SEEDS original collage and design Quote adapted from "Thoughts for Aspirants" by N. Sri Ram (Text on Card) When the spiritual seeds within us bursts free from their buried abode, they open and unfold the beauty of their own particular nature and unigueness. |
| GENTLENESS AND STRENGTH original photo -collage and design Quote by N. Sri Ram from "Thoughts for Aspiriants" (Text on Cover) There can be in oneself a perfect blend of gentleness and strength, and that blend exists always in one's true spiritual nature. |
| THE QUALITY OF HAPPINESS original collage and design Quote by N. Sri Ram from "Thoughts for Aspiriants" (Text on Cover) It is not the magnitude of what one does which brings happiness, but the quality of what it is. |
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