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The Flower Mandalas blog has a dual purpose:
- To explore the use of art as a means to healing and transformation.
- To ask for your help in completing The Flower Mandalas Project.
Purpose #1: My intent is to use my own Flower Mandalas and related ideas and thoughts as a springboard for a broader exploration of the topic of art, healing, and transformation. I invite you to contribute your own experiences with art, healing, and transformation to the Art, Healing, and Transformation group on Beliefnet.com. I hope that a lively discussion will ensue there. I will moderate this group and, with your permission, post a selection of your contributions on the Flower Mandalas blog. You may also contact me directly at phototransformations@davidbookbinder.com.
Purpose #2: I’d like to ask for your responses to the Flower Mandala images posted here, either briefly as comments to the blog posts or in detail on the Behance Network Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas page. My plan is to create a book of 52 Flower Mandala images, each one paired with an inspirational quotation and original essay which in some way complement the image. My hope is for each image-and-quote-and-essay triad to resonate with a fundamental aspect of human experience.
Thanks for listening and sharing.
- David
David J. Bookbinder, LMHC
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posted June 22, 2008 at 4:03 pm
This is very beautiful and inspiring…your mandala work is stunning. Thank you.
posted July 8, 2008 at 9:58 pm
It very much draws your towards, you could very easly keep drawn towards the center Beautiful!!! I could wake to this picture every norning and be in awa1 thank you
posted August 11, 2008 at 12:11 pm
AS I FIRST LOOK AT I FEEL THE CENTER OF MY HEART OPENING; THE FLOW OF COMPASSION BEGINNING TO POUR OUT. YES THE OPENING! THIS FIRST PERSON THAT POPPED INTO MY MIND UPON LOOKING AT IT: KUAN YIN. THE BEARER OF COMPASSION. PURELY ESSENTIAL FOR THE HEART. THANK YOU DAVID FOR SHARING YOUR WORK. MAY EVERYONES HEARTS OPEN AND SHARE COMPASSION AND LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER.
posted September 15, 2008 at 11:10 am
A mighty invitation! I never new openness could be so beautiful and so loving. It makes me want to expand my heart and take it all in and love without limits. It makes me want to risk.
posted November 29, 2008 at 3:34 am
This is very good and beautiful medicine. Thank you for sharing. “Opening” is apprpriate…I too felt a sense of compassion and tenderness while looking at it. Inspires me to want to pracitce compassion and open-heartedness more regulary.