Where our experience is coming from?
Lets’ talk about art for a moment …
About that Art, you never seem to get truly… Can you think of an Art you feel absolutely nothing about?
For me maybe it was sculpture art. Whenever I was looking at sculptures I could feel absolutely nothing …
Abstract art, in general, was like a blind spot for me. I have been in Picasso’s museums and I just didn’t get it. I couldn’t make a sense of his artwork at all. Sitting there, I remember, staring at the art pieces and just filling my mind with all these thoughts, “Why I can’t feel anything”, ”Why I don’t get his genius work”.
Wait a minute…
Maybe that was my mistake, my personal mind was too busy and caught up in the thought stream, the essence of the art piece couldn’t reach my soul.
I see it clearly now…
It all started in Antibes, France
I remember we were in Antibes in one of these very famous museums. There was a huge (nearly the size of the wall) painting and it was all black. Nothing more just black, the whole painting. It looked like a huge black rectangle, that was all I can see. I was feeling absolutely nothing regarding this so-called piece of art. I noticed a guy staying close to the painting and really standing there with huge admiration. He was truly looking moved by it. Because I consider myself an art’s person, I was shocked. I had to know what he is seeing and I’m not. Therefore, I approached the man with curiosity and asked him “What do you see in this piece that is so impressive to you?”
He responded “It’s just so marvellous, can’t you see the strokes of the brush? How the artist approached the canvas from so many different directions? I see it as a sign of the inner fight the artist has in his mind and how hopeless everything seems. He has captured this moment of despair in this masterpiece. It touches me deeply…”
Can you believe that?
Wow… just wow
I was completely blown away.
So it’s the same painting, the same piece of art we are both looking at and two completely different inner worlds. Charming!
I have heard about Art, that you are not supposed to try and get it with your intellect. You are supposed to let it touch you, open your senses and look for the feeling. It’s almost how it’s with the understanding of the Three Principles. Try and intellectualise it and you will never come even near its simplicity and its beauty.
Finally, let me summarize…
For example, whenever our boss or anybody else, shout at us, our perception of the situation and our reaction is completely up to our inner world. Nothing to do with what is happening outside. I’m not saying that bad things and catastrophes are not happening, they do. All I’m saying is, the way we react and deal with it depends only on ourselves, our insecurities, our false and non-resourceful beliefs and concepts, our way of seeing the world.
BAM!
Can you see it?…
We are the creators of our life and we create it from the inside where our divine soul is.
The others also create their lives, similarly. They, just like us, act on thoughts they believe are true and important to themselves. Human beings act innocently on their thoughts and they always believe they are doing the right thing. At least until they see the picture of their reality from another perspective. We human beings act or don’t act on our thoughts (our inner voice), but there are two voices actually.
Devine Wisdom and Ego-mind
Divine wisdom or Universal Thought, emanating directly from the Universal Mind;
Our EGO – the illusionary importance we give to ourselves. Standards and rules we have set that we believe define who we are;
The louder voice is one of our Ego, but I will tell you more about that in another story.
Now breathe ….just notice how do you feel now?
In short, the next time you are in a big argument when you start feeling the arising anger feeling, can you step aside? Can you see it for what it really is? Try to find that beautiful feeling inside of you, concentrate on it and try to go around the EGO mind and find the true voice of wisdom.
Can you really afford not to take notice of what I have shared today?
Maybe…
But probably not…
Certainly, you can’t ignore it like so many do…
Believe me, If you practise just that little trick I promise you, your communication with others will change for better.
It seems like, I have been going for a while now, time to go, my friends.
Thank you for putting your time into reading this, it means a lot to me.
Speak to you very soon,
With Love
Dimmi Valenti