Sunday, January 25, 2009

Thoughts with a Friend

(Colors: by Nessy Shepherd)




Being with a dear friend and listening to a melancholy song...

“Do you think they write tunes like this to make us melt our minds and move us to feeling? Maybe the ones that write this are very lonely people, so they make music like this to break free for a moment and touch others.” She muses.

Perhaps they use their pain to reach their Art. Sadly pain touches Truth and how I wish to find a way to reach Truth and Art without pain…sigh, not many do.

We do not see many truly happy people making or creating Art. Sadly without pain there is no Truth in Art. That’s how we learn of the "tortured" artist. Asylums are filled with true artists. I think on this world, we need pain to reach Art but I believe there are other worlds, like our concept of Heaven, where Art is around us always.

In our earthly planes of reality, we can experience Art and how it gives something back to us. The musician was able to soothe her pain through her Art. So we touch Art through pain and then return to comfort from the Art. We cannot understand it but we can accept it as a natural part of ourselves.

Sadly many people never feel enough to feel pain. They do not open their hearts beyond the point of being vulnerable to be fully exposed and then when they are dealt a painful blow, they are protected. Sadly, or fortunately, they cannot truly see Art and understand its many meanings.

You and I go too deep my dear poet. We love too openly going beyond vulnerability so when we are hurt, we bleed and bleed. Our tears are blood and our hearts weep. And then, only when we understand the pain of everyone can we be touched by Art as it was intended to be received.

Ah, but Pain is so overrated a friend of mine reminds me. There is hope and I wish to believe in hope and choose to live with hope. All Art is not created through pain.

G... Great Passion can create Art.
R... Real Love can create Art.
A... Absolute and True Happiness can create Art.
C... Concentration and Playful Intelligence can create Art.
E... Energy and Inspiration from Art can create Art.

And above all, Heaven is available to us in this instant, now, has always been, and will always be. We simply need to choose to seek its beauty in all things.

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