It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.
Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.
When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.
I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.
Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.