Artistic snippets
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 9:07 pm
Hi all,
Wanted to start a thread for people to share more powerful artistic snippets which may pertain to concepts in the Faith, especially those with an edge: or as Bahá'u'lláh puts it, in His praise of an artist who achieved this, "indicative of both the light of reunion and the fire of separation" (Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, 176). Feel free to offer parallel quotations from the Writings as as well if you wish.
Disobedience to the Covenant:
Wanted to start a thread for people to share more powerful artistic snippets which may pertain to concepts in the Faith, especially those with an edge: or as Bahá'u'lláh puts it, in His praise of an artist who achieved this, "indicative of both the light of reunion and the fire of separation" (Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, 176). Feel free to offer parallel quotations from the Writings as as well if you wish.
Disobedience to the Covenant:
If you should go skating,
On the thin ice of modern life,
Dragging behind you the silent reproach,
Of a million tear-stained eyes,
Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice,
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind,
With your fear flowing out behind you,
As you claw the thin ice.
(Pink Floyd, The Thin Ice)