Facets of a Diamond – Blog
I speak of writer vs. author,
musician vs. performer,
conductor vs. maestro,
painter vs. artist.What of healer?
Is healer vs. dealer?The essence of them all seems to be:
altruist vs. selfist.You ask about me being guided to paint. I would say I’m guided to heal through painting: my painting for others, then helping them to paint for others.
All guidance for altruistic art, whatever the particular form of the Creativity.
“I have very little of Mr. Blake’s company; he is always in Paradise.”
— Catherine Blake
To invoke Amida Buddha with Pure Faith is to be instantly transported by Her to the Free Land, to Heaven on earth.
Blake saw “a Heaven in a Wild Flower,” for his life was dedicated to Pure Faith.
Well, I’m not one for a dress code. But when a man comes to see me – urgently – for help to stave off the divorce his wife is threatening, I am surprised when he arrives in sandals, shorts, Hawaiian shirt and cowboy hat!
That’s how serious he was about saving his marriage.
That’s why his wife
The music we hear is third generation Inspiration:
The composer Inspired by the Spirit World writes the composition as his Aspirational response.
Then the performer is Inspired by the composer’s Aspiration to Aspire when playing it.
And then we are Inspired by his Aspiration to
The ultimate answer to the problem of digitalized music is very simple. Just become Aware that the music was Inspired: as Inspiration from the Spirit World.
And, further, that it can then be as Inspiration for you – to then respond with Aspiration.
All aesthetic criticism ceases when you Realize that the work has been – can only be – Inspired from the Spirit World.
To believe, to truly Believe, in the Spirit is to Know that your every thought and action – and everyone’s – is Inspired: by Heaven’s Breath.
Any poem, any painting, any act of creativity, can be seen, Known, as an Instance of God, when we Realize that it has been Inspired.