Marina Abramovic is a Serbian
performance artist who staged a three-month exhibition at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York City. All day, every day, she sat at a table in the museum's
atrium. Members of the audience sat at the opposite end of the table with no
talking or touching. Her goal was "to achieve a luminous state of being
and then transmit it." She literally wanted to sit there and give off
light. While she did not achieve the shining face of Moses, she made a compassionate
and loving connection with many of the people sitting across from her in
silence. Some experienced tears rising from within.
What would you think of me if I told
you this sounded weird?
Yet, really, who are we?
People travel to wonder at the height
of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the
rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.[1]
Here are people willing to pay to sit in front of Marina. What
kind of relationship might we have with God, if we simply took the time to sit
with God, silently, in deep prayer and meditation?
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