I knew I was going to write a book about five years before I actually did. I was in a meditation and I asked myself, “I’ve done all these things: art, design, teaching, etc. What is my next step?” A voice popped up in my head stating clearly, “you are …
I agree with those who say that we should endeavor to love ourselves through our pain. But true, unconditional love is impossible from an emotional level of consciousness—all you have is a need to be loved, and a bargaining with what you see outside you in order to get the …
It’s a good thing to respect the paths of others, especially if you are not experiencing what they are experiencing. How can you know? Going through a lot of pain is sometimes exactly on the path. IMHO the path at some point includes a lot of humble pie. That is …
Try this: go outside and find a tree. Place yourself with your back up against the tree and take off your shoes so that you are standing barefoot on top of the exposed roots at the base of the tree. Place your bare hands against the trunk behind you. Now, …
Funny that we have to parent ourselves. The trajectory of changes works like this: The body (which obviously includes the mind) panics because it doesn’t feel safe. That brings in the ego—which was evolved as a form of consciousness to help protect us in our physical forms on earth—and it …
The Buddhists say that there are skillful and unskillful emotions. Like two sides of the same coin they represent the same energy. How we translate that energy is up to us. So perhaps anxiety is really excitement as you face an unknown future. Anger is the floodgate released on depression. …
Finding detachment in a polarized world is an inner discipline that puts us in a state of clarity. It is the void that precedes the burst of creation.
What are some of your options if you find yourself out of work or simply want to take a new direction?
“Pay it forward is an expression for when the recipient of an act of kindness does something kind for someone else rather than simply accepting or repaying the original good deed.”
Fear exists to be defeated; its reason for existing—is to experience love through the unimaginable act of surrender. Fear unconsciously desires to be reunited with its polar opposite—Love. In doing so, Fear achieves its real goal of surrender in order that it may become whole.
I propose a grass-roots movement I’ll call the “Trickle-up Creative Economy.”
Aliyah reveals the secret of the creative genius: a powerful alliance with the personal subconscious give us access to the most powerful creative force of all, the same power that fuels the stars and guides our lives.
It seems sometimes that I have two or more people inside of me, each trying to express herself. I know that it shows in my work. For many years, after graduating from art school, I tried to produce a consistent body of work…
