11/5/02
Paint
"If you hear a voice within you say, "You cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Yes. As with everything else in life! How can we ever expect to grow if every time we come up against some impossible challenge, we were to back away? I see it everywhere I turn. Timid people, walking through life as if on eggshells, afraid of breaking something irreplacable. I am telling you that the only things you need cannot be broken. Tell me, what do you feel when you stand in the wind? The trees speak, the ocean speaks...what do they say to you? Your mission, your only quest at this time in your life is to find the answers to these questions. Stop looking outside yourself. This is not an easy thing; inside of you is deeper than you have ever imagined. I have been to that place; it has shining white veils and no walls; love and something beautifulfrightening. The place where you know without learning. And so I tell you to walk without fear, and indeed to seek out those challenges which most frighten you; to take the steps that are, for you, most daring. And when you meet my eyes as we pass, we shall share wisdom.
To the clarity of the East
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