*QUOTES AND COMMENTS*

*Student's Comments about Paul's Teachings*

"Your paintings hold the "presence" and its healing for
people because of this energy!" ECKHART TOLLE

• The Mandala gives me a chance to "build" a new future.
• I've learned amazing things happen on a canvas.
• For the first time I feel both the masculine and he feminine in me.
• Forget about the corporate office, I want to go painting.
• The Mandala is walking back & forth from the center out.
• In the workshop, it's a place where everything is possible.
• I'm painting like crazy this morning.
• Each new painting is a chance for a new life.
• There's a whole new me emerging.
• In the workshop, the things that have gotten through to me are the actions of the heart.
• We breathe each other when we paint together.
• Art is living in full color.
• Art is Medicine for the Soul.
• Art is round religion.
• Art is trusting your access to the Universe.
• Go to the center of the Mandala & view things from there.
• In art, for every problem, there is a solution.
• Art is learning to manage the power of Spirit/Soul.
• In art you don't have to die to go to heaven.
• I have finally accepted/recognized my spirit.
• Here I found a sanctuary.
• Art has broken my heart open.
• I am here because I'm ready to paint the next one.
• Pure spirit (or soul) is without belief.
• Painting can be the clothing or voice of the soul.
• All true works of art point towards the truth.
• Now I have given you the images of the Mandala; you can use your soul as your guide to steer yourself into a deep place.
• The heart is only interested in unity: unity of vision, of feeling, of emotions, of beauty.
• Art is the interior consciousness of mankind.
• Paintings are sent by God.
• I feel the power of painting together.
• It's the most incredible life I can imagine.
• I am a reluctant artist, but somehow magic occurs.
• Art is doing more than you think you can.
• The more I bring out the goddess in the painting, the more she comes alive in me.
• I could be dead already and not have painted anything.
• I carried a vision for 10 years, and through painting, finally it released, way beyond my expectations.
• Painting is a waking dream.
• Art is a love affair with the Soul.
• Every day is a challenge here.
• I feel like I've been in some sacred kindergarten all day.
• Art shows us how to look through the heart.
• Painting and the workshop is a treat.
• Art is like chocolate, as good as sex!
• Everything is a pattern.
• The whole workshop is a meditation…each brush stroke, all the laughter, the meals and the loving support of the group.
• Looking at my painting I wondered…"who painted mine?"