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Art And Insight
The rapid and worldwide growth of a psychological interest over the last two decades shows unmistakably that modern man is turning his attention from outward material things to his own inner processes. Expressionism in art prophetically anticipated this subjective development, for all art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness. — Carl Jung
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“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.” — Ursula Le Guin
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Leaning across the table Krishnamurti shook his head. “It’s so damn simple,” he said. “Sir, I’ve only said one thing but I have said it a thousand ways.” What is the one thing the speaker expressed a thousand ways?
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LAKOTA CODE OF ETHICS
Search for yourself, by yourself. Do not allow others to make your path for you. It is your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
From the time I learned to read I was instinctively doing two things, making art and questing for deeper understanding and meaning. All attempts to knock me off that path failed. I’m incapable of functioning any other way. I liked having…