Artvangarde

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

“Give up defining yourself— to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. ”

“I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.”

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.”

“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality… to define what is real.”

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.

You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

Stop loving people into corners.

“So, Mary, climb in. It’s a town full of losers, and I’m pulling out of here to win”

The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

The Mystery of Existence does not get solved.