While painting in my studio to the strains of Beethoven’s music from the “Immortal Beloved”, I was suddenly struck by the power of the music as well as the subject matter which was this beautiful flower called the Passion Flower. Suddenly, I experienced the synergy of the erotic, the beautiful and the cosmic. Combining these three sources is the basis of the state of grace. I felt like a momentary midwife to this energy and was in a state of awe and appreciation to have experienced this synergy firsthand.

The message: Surrendering to one’s inner passions gives one the opportunity to acquire the state of grace. It is the process of putting passion into a form that is the pathway to this state.