burn/bliss
Letters for 'burn' cut from the Bible; letters for 'bliss' cut from the Koran
letters on panel, 11 x 11 in., 2012
(detail below)
"There is but one infinite
Being in the universe, and that Being appears as you and I. What are you and I
and all these things we see? Mere self-hypnotism. There is but one existence,
the infinite, the ever-blessed One. In that One we dream all these various
dreams. It is the Atman, beyond all, the infinite, beyond the known, beyond the
knowable. In and through that we see the universe. It is the only reality. That
reality is this table, it is the audience before me, it is the wall, it is
everything minus the name and
form. Take away the form of the table, take away the name, and what remains is
that one reality."
- Swami Vivekananda, from “A Study of the Mundaka Upanishad”
