Vast Expanse by Alex Grey

One of my favorite pieces from "Art Psalms" by Alex Grey.
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I acknowledge the privilege of being alive 
in a human body at this moment, 
endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, 
and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect;

It is the prayer of my innermost being 
to realize my supreme identity 
in the liberated play of consciousness, 
the Vast Expanse; 
Now is the moment, 
Here is the place of Liberation;

Witness the contents of mind, 
the visions and sounds, the thoughts, 
as clouds passing through the Vast Expanse - 
the skylike nature of mind; 
The rootedness of Being is in emptiness,
clarity and awareness: 
Unborn, unspoilt, stainlessly pure;

The infinite vibratory levels, 
the dimensions of interconnectedness 
are without end; 
There is nothing independent; 
All beings and things are residents in your awareness;

I subject my awareness to the perfection of being, 
the perfection of wisdom and perfection of love, 
all of these being co-present in the Vast Expanse; 
I share this panorama of Being 
and appreciate all I can share it with,
the seamless interweaving of consciousness 
with each moment.

Create perfection wherever you go
with your awareness.
That is why this teaching is admired by artists - 
they sense the correctness of the response to life
as creative;

Life is infinite creative joy. 
Enjoyment and participation in this creative play 
is the artist’s profound joy; 
We coauthor every moment 
with universal creativity;

To bare our souls is all we ask, 
to give all we have to life 
and the beings surrounding us; 
Here the nature spirits are intense 
and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - 
these nature spirits who call us here - 
sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love;

I am an intersecting kaleidoscope of Being 
in a rainbow refractive wave pattern: 
A corpuscle of light on the ocean; 
the transparency of my body with the rocks; 
sometimes the only way to summarize my feelings 
is to draw - 
to collapse the frenzy in my limbs enough 
to make a mark of appreciation 
for my existence;

Share your presence with others, no boundaries, 
completely, openly, lovingly; 
Love is what makes us alive, 
that is why we feel so alive when we love; 
Service is being available to love; 
Life is the combustion of love; 
We are constantly drawing the line between love and not love - 
enter into the Nonduality Zone; 
All judgements dissolve in the Vast Expanse;

It’s as though we are 
co-conspirators of consciousness - 
everyone, everywhere, everywhen, 
mixing up our openable minds; 
It’s as though we could gather clouds in the sky 
and people into our lives; 
Like an eruption of consciousness, 
we discover the source of love;

Discover yourself as the Source 
and appreciate every moment as perfection; 
Sunrise - Sunset; Thank you, thank you, 
Creator, Profound unstoppable connectedness of all beings, 
most radical no-thing, 
the Vast Expanse.