We must strive to learn new things every day or stagnate, but God wants our learning of arts and sciences to help us access our Creator. I pictured drawing on the ocean of God’s inspiration like a river that flows to God, but then the bright ideas and creative energy flow back to us via the same channel through which we access Him, in prayer and meditation…drawing creative strength from the Divine Ocean. This is the quote that inspired this painting: “Although to acquire the sciences and arts is the greatest glory of mankind, this is so only on condition that man’s river flow into the mighty sea, and draw from God’s ancient source His inspiration... ...By the one true God! If learning be not a means of access to Him, the Most Manifest, it is nothing but evident loss.” Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 110.