Caress the detail, the divine detail.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.
The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.
Everything you touch touches you.
Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.