You and I are Artists

Several years ago, I had an out of body experience where I found myself in a very indescribably beautiful and breath taking environment – heaven.
I can never forget one of the things my guide told me,

This is a world that is perfect and the beings are ever happy. 
Long ago it’s appointed ruler left it in pursuit of other schemes. 
That was a long long time ago but the memories still linger on…
and he is ever desirous to return to his former home, this paradise!

So your aspirations for a better world are lingering memories of where you used to be…where you’ll rather be.

Deep in your heart is an inner vision, a quiet awareness, beautiful pictures, and lovely songs of hard-to-describe realities. 

Have you ever felt this?

For some of us, this living picture is still robust, vibrant, and  passionately longing for expression. For so many others,  it has become dulled by the tragedies, disappointments, and betrayals of the material plane.  Yet – because its divine – this spring of awareness is indestructible and continues to make the arduous journey to the surface of our human consciousness, still longing for that one genius stroke of expression.

And in this sense, you and I are artists.

Naturally artists are very powerful communicators. Artists try to project their inner visions of realities on visible and tangible materials, usually two dimensional planes. This is no easy task, but they often manage to do it because they are gifted with powerful brain to hand coordinating abilities.

The artist attempts to translate his inner visions outwardly into forms that allow us to see what’s on his mind and to share in his subjective experiences.
If he is successful, we enter into very tangible experiences of his joys, hopes, pains, pleasures, and other dimensions of his being.

The artists challenge is a very difficult and complex one – to capture multi-dimensional realities, and often esoteric visions, onto two dimensional planes.
How does the artist capture, for instance, hope, on a canvas?  How does he express the young woman’s need to be courageous in the midst of a harsh, hostile, and abusive cultural milieu?   Indeed, how does the artist project his dreams of justice on a piece of material fabric?

True, some artists manage somehow to do this, and when they do, we enjoy rhapsodic reflections. 

Many others, however, fall short of their  inner ideal. Though we innocently acclaim their works as masterpieces, yet within their soul, they know that we haven’t the slightest clues as to what they are trying to say.  I refer to this later state as ‘creative frustrations’, that is, the artists awareness that even his so-called masterpiece remains far below his inner vision in spite of his best efforts.

As I stated earlier,  we all harbour dreams and inner visions that long for beautiful expressions, which is why I think that you and I are artists…

It may be true that none of us can perfectly capture these dreams on any of the visible planes available to us…

Yet, like every artist knows, we can at least give it our best shot…

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