Art And Abundance

Painting by me.

“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there’s a way or a path, it is someone else’s path.”

– Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss

“When we open to abundance, we can enjoy the fog lifting from the morning’s melting snow, and the steam rising from the hot bowl of tomato soup on our lunch table. We can appreciate the half smile of the tired waitress, the silver crescent of the moon at twilight, the unstoppable laughter of children in the schoolyard, and celebrate the fact that we are here, breathing and alive, on this marvelous earth. This fulfillment is far beyond the “prosperity consciousness” that is promulgated in books and workshops that urge us to visualize fancy cars, sprawling mansions, and burgeoning bank accounts. Unbridled outer seeking can actually reflect an inner limitation, of a sense of insufficiency.” — Jack Kornfield

I sometimes wonder if I chose art or if art chose me. I know I felt untutored, wandering, in spite of having a general feeling I was going in the right direction. But at one point, I came to a dead end and didn’t know what to do. I was surprised when the Universe answered my unspoken question in the midst of my confusion.

I passed from a feeling of being lost to a feeling of certainty within a day or two, just by adjusting my mental spectacles so I could reevaluate my…