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jouney to death
every day facing death reminds us that life is short...
When we allow ourselves to feel our deepest sadness at the short time we have left to live we tend to be less concerned with the judgments of others that often so limit our creativity and powers of artistic expression......
Facing death also makes us wiser.
True wisdom, however, is not primarily intellectual. It is first and foremost an experience of the pattern that patterns, an intuitive and deep inner knowing of both the laws that govern human existence, and the mystery that transcends human understanding and meaning. Facing our deepest feelings about the mystery of our birth and our death, experiencing our firefly life as the moment in eternity it is, sensing our true place in the cosmos, and experiencing not only our connection with but existence as an expression of the impermanence of all life, is a path to the deepest kind of wisdom.
It is striking also how often our embracing life by facing death leads to creative efforts that are concerned with the issue of death itself.....
perhaps the deepest way that the issue of death is related to creativity is this: artistic expression is perhaps our most profound and appropriate outlet for expressing the feelings and thoughts that bubble to the surface when we break through our denial of death. These sentiments are so profound that normal expression does not begin to convey what we are thinking and feeling. It is art alone that provides a means to express most vividly and accurately our deepest emotions.
jouney to death
every day facing death reminds us that life is short...
When we allow ourselves to feel our deepest sadness at the short time we have left to live we tend to be less concerned with the judgments of others that often so limit our creativity and powers of artistic expression......
Facing death also makes us wiser.
True wisdom, however, is not primarily intellectual. It is first and foremost an experience of the pattern that patterns, an intuitive and deep inner knowing of both the laws that govern human existence, and the mystery that transcends human understanding and meaning. Facing our deepest feelings about the mystery of our birth and our death, experiencing our firefly life as the moment in eternity it is, sensing our true place in the cosmos, and experiencing not only our connection with but existence as an expression of the impermanence of all life, is a path to the deepest kind of wisdom.
It is striking also how often our embracing life by facing death leads to creative efforts that are concerned with the issue of death itself.....
perhaps the deepest way that the issue of death is related to creativity is this: artistic expression is perhaps our most profound and appropriate outlet for expressing the feelings and thoughts that bubble to the surface when we break through our denial of death. These sentiments are so profound that normal expression does not begin to convey what we are thinking and feeling. It is art alone that provides a means to express most vividly and accurately our deepest emotions.