Your Place on The Great Mandala

David Price
3 min readMay 15, 2020
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What we have moved through, the people whose lives intersect with ours, the beauty, the terror, the moments of transcendence, frustration, pain, pleasure, and love all of this continues to echo — even if we no longer hear the sound. And eventually the song of innocence — like Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah with its ‘minor fall and its major lifts.’ The dark and light moments and shadings, all part of the one unique choreography danced by each of us — each moment a meaningful link to the next, blending inseparably in rhythm with our souls. “Take your place on the great mandala as it moves through your brief moment of time….”

Denise Cabral Yanez

“There is a grid of consciousness out of which the dominant systems arise. This grid is very difficult to transcend: it operates on primal survival frequencies even though it uses elaborate and seductive ways to camouflage itself. Its codes and frequencies are governed by the Lords of Number and numerical manipulation and advantage.. The grid makes us believe we must always be counting how much even as we lose the value of true quality. Only the higher frequencies of selfless altruism can dissolve this grid and free us to live for each other. May all beings be free. May all beings be happy.” — James O’Dea

The quality of our consciousness is our path in life. A survival consciousness is intelligent in…

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David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.