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Art Is Life
“As Jung said often enough, we can go with another only as far as we have gone with ourselves.”
James Hillman
“I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.” — Helena Bonham Carter
Living a full life as a person of substance is impossible without creativity. Meeting the world as a person of depth means you know yourself and can embrace yourself in a large and profound sense. Art of some kind plays an important role in this process of growing such a soul. I know from experience that making art means digging deep in yourself to overcome frequent failure and disappointment in order to create a beauty the world hasn’t yet seen.
Facing yourself this way confers strength if you keep going in spite of everything. You grow into a more substantial being, a person able to offer the world something of value.
Creating art doesn’t just rest on the talent to make something pretty. It is really a dialogue with Soul. It offers insight, delight, nourishment for the deeper self and helps it flourish. The world can’t do without this kind of…
