True Generosity

True generosity
is a quality that flows
straight from the soul,
it is manifest in those
who inwardly beautified
themselves so that
their very presence
is an exquisite fragrance
to everyone around them!

© 2013 Aïda Touré

The Milky Way’s Savants

Peace your Way~ I just released “The Milky Way’s Savants” a 40″x30″ oil and acrylic painting that I worked on for quite a while as it’s very detailed. This piece essentially captures the manifestation of high culture on earth which is realized through advanced souls as their life always leads to a certain spiritual affluence in the region that they grace… To read more about the entire painting and the poem that inspired it, please click here.

Promise

wearable painting 3″x6″ cuff bracelet

I near you,
heart naked,
ego laid
on the holy ground
your feet bless,
infinite carpets of gems
appear! Your very being
is a promise
from the Unseen
to the seen realms.
I’m like a child
in your presence,
you are the servant
of Allahu’s Effulgence~

© 2013 Touré Aïda

you may click here to purchase this new handmade cuff bracelet.

Royale

handmade cuff bracelet

~ Royale ~

Of the dimension
where there’s only giving,
you are,
whirling, light after light,
you enwrap my hand
and we fly~

© 2013 Aïda Touré

“Royale” is the new addition to my handmade collection of jewels. This 3″x6″ cuff bracelet has a dark blue velvet backing. If you would like to purchase this cuff bracelet click here.

Love is a Shattering Beauty

Photo by David Jubert

One of the subjects that constantly pours forth here is Love~ For adults who have already been weighed down by the burdens of this world, it takes great mastery to succeed in dusting off the inner mirror so that the heart and outward actions clearly reflect the rays of pure intention that originally permeated it.

Rare are those who approach the object of Love the proper way so their uninviting energy always shows through the same symptoms: contradictions between action and speech, noise, restlessness, reproaches, false assumptions and projections, veiled threats in order to “obtain” reciprocity, possessiveness, unreasonable expectations, all persistently imposed as absolute realities on the object of Love.

Such unfortunate manifestation that masks itself under the term “love” usually is telling of the inner chaos and turmoil of the person who arbors this kind of “love” which is characterized by an inordinate lack of self-control that smothers, pressures the object of Love and that is such an unpleasant and coarse experience that it naturally repulses the fine-feeling soul. This type of “love” actually is immature, unhealthy and eventually destructive.

Love is subtle, peaceful and spacious, it does not force itself on the lover, nor does it disturb, it does not covet, it does not dictate how it is to be experienced, it does not attempt to capture, it is not noisy, unstable, chaotic, draining and reckless. Love is a fragrance that is exquisite, it does not need to proclaim nor agitate itself, nor does it need to scream for the object of Love’s attention for authentic Love is a shattering Beauty whose splendor speaks of itself; it glows in the utmost silence in humility, harmoniously, with purpose without having to outwardly declare nor claim anything, it is Presence and as such no one can resist its soft, inviting grace~ Only those who have mastered their egos and have become whole within can channel such a divine love, which never leads to disappointment since it does not expect, it just effortlessly flows like a river that ever reaches the Cosmic Ocean’s Bliss. Bismillah~

© 2012 Aïda Touré

“Only the Hand of God can remove the burdens of your heart.” ~Rumi

Cosmic Agent

new painting in progress © 2012 Aïda Touré

We move, moved by
the immense beauty
you unravel
without respite,
and we dance
in infinity, lost
to the cosmic agent
humans called love!

© 2012 Aïda Touré

Calligraphy in Nature: La Fraise

In a pack of strawberries I found this one calligraphic strawberry that was shaped in what looks like Allah (swt) spelled in Arabic. Soon as I saw it, it struck me and my mind just lit up! Placed in front of one of my paintings, I took a few photographs of it. I wondered what other people would see in the shape of this strawberry so I decided to share the picture~

Calligraphic Strawberry © 2012 Toure Aida

“We will show them Our signs in the universe and in their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the truth.” ~Qur’an 41:53