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“A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”
—Eckhart Tolle
Art & The Heart
Some people don't love deeply because they do not live deeply. If you are not fully present in your own life, you are never truly present in the lives of others.
All depth and emotional fulfillment is only available when we are open, but that requires courage and honesty in the face of the real.
Many people try to avoid feeling until they become numb and lose themselves in banal distractions. Capitalism is built on the premise that the hole in each human heart can be filled with stuff, but sitting with the emptiness is all that heals the wound.
I try to face the darkness in myself and the world with an open heart and an honest mind, but some days that's a lot of work. I am only human after all.
On those days, when I am closed and full of denial, I cannot be creatively successful. But, when I remember to be genuine and let myself feel what I have been running from, then I am free to create beautiful things. And even if those things are sad, they are beautiful because they are authentic.
All good art arises from emotional honesty in the present moment.
© JM Tiffany 2024