What prayer – what painting, creates a space so thin as still to allow an individual their authentic access?

Interfaith Prayer Wall Painting Project - Initial Concepts
Hospice, Pallative Care, and Lifeline, Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte NC
Artist: Tom Schulz

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"A word is a microcosm of human consciousness."
– L.S. Vygotsky (1896-1934)

What prayer is there to voice the bare wired charge of grief?
What image may portray an open-ended threshold into the otherness of the unknown?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
– John 1:1 King James Bible

What prayer is there that may offer up a dew’s drop of tangible joy amongst the piercing shards of loss?

“The Talmud is thus the recorded dialogue of generations of scholars.  It has all the characteristics of a living dialogue.  Freshness, vivid spontaneity, and acute awareness of every subject permeate every argument and discussion.  The spirit of life breathes on every single page.”
– Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

What painting might offer a cacophony of visual noise where an individual could even desire to seek out silence?

As is the human body, so is the cosmic body. As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind. As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm. As is the atom, so is the universe.
– The Upanishads

What prayer offers light in the darkness of despair yet oasis in the harsh glare of loss?

When the Ten Thousand things are viewed in their oneness, we return to the Origin and remain where we have always been.
– Sen T'sen

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Presbyterian Wall Painting Project

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  "A word is a microcosm of human consciousness" – L.S. Vygotsky (1896-1934)
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  “What prayer is there to voice the bare wired charge of grief?”
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  “What image may portray an open-ended threshold into the otherness of the unknown?”
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  “What prayer is there that may offer up a dew’s drop of tangible joy amongst the piercing shards of loss?"
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  “What painting might offer a cacophony of visual noise where an individual could even desire to seek out silence?”
• 
  “As is the human body, so is the cosmic body. As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind. As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm. As is the atom, so is the universe." – The Upanishads
• 
  “What prayer offers light in the darkness of despair yet oasis in the harsh glare of loss?”
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  “When the Ten Thousand things are viewed in their oneness, we return to the Origin and remain where we have always been." – Sen T'sen