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Author. Artist. Introvert. NostrArtstr.com Art Challenges Host.

I love both: creating art and buying art. Thatโ€™s my understanding- when I look at it, does it make me feel a way I want to feel?

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GM from Phineas (left ๐ŸฆŠ) and Spark (right ๐ŸฆŠ)!

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Iโ€™m getting Dr. Frankenstein vibes โ€ฆ what could rise from all of this?!?!?!

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I have heard:

One night the poet, Awhadi of Kerman, a very great Muslim poet, was sitting on his porch bent over a vessel. Shams e-Tabrizi, a great Sufฤฑ mystic, happened to pass by.

Shams e-Tabrizi looked at the poet, at what he was doing. He asked the poet, "What are you doing?"

The poet said, "Contemplating the moon in a bowl of water."

Shams e-Tabrizi started laughing, with an uproarious laughter, a mad laughter. The poet started feeling uncomfortable; a crowd gathered. And the poet said, "What is the matter? Why are you laughing so much? Why are you ridiculing me?"

Shams e-Tabrizi said, "Unless you have broken your neck, why don't you look directly at the moon in the sky?"

The moon is there, the full moon is there, and this poet was sitting with a bowl of water and looking into the bowl of water at the reflection of the moon!

Seeking truth in scriptures, seeking truth in philosophies, is looking at the reflection. If you ask somebody else how you should live your life you are asking for misguidance, because that man can only talk about his own life. And never, never, are two lives the same. Whatsoever he can say or impart to you will be about his own life โ€” and that too only if he has lived. He may have asked somebody else, he may have followed somebody else, he may have been an imitator himself; then it is a reflection of a reflection. And centuries pass and people go on reflecting the reflection of the reflection of the reflection โ€” and the real moon is always there in the sky waiting for you.

It is your moon, it is your sky, look directly. Be immediate about it. Why borrow my eyes or anybody else's eyes? You have been given eyes, beautiful eyes to see, and to see directly. Why borrow understanding from anybody? Remember, it may be an understanding to me, but the moment you borrow it, it becomes knowledge to you โ€” it is no longer understanding.

Understanding is only that which has been experienced by the person himself. It may be understanding for me, if I have looked at the moon, but the moment I say it to you it becomes knowledge, it is no longer understanding. Then it is just verbal, then it is just linguistic. And language is a lie.

โ€” Osho (The Art of Dying: Talks on Hassidism, Ch 1)

#IKITAO

This is very relevant for me today; thanks for sharing it. ๐Ÿซ‚๐Ÿ’œ

Had an absolutely wonderful 4 hours with my early morning friend. Lots of talk regarding being an artist/creator/learner. I also got a quick intro on how he uses AI for research (info and graphics) and not only iterating within an idea but iterating through several ideas. ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ’ก

Also, this cafe has a really good breakfast plate.

#friends #foodstr #artstr

It was. Heโ€™s a friend worth getting up early for. ๐Ÿ’œ

Prompt from โ€œ301 Things to Drawโ€ published by Chartwell Books.

Iโ€™m going to use these as my 100 Day Project as well. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

Anyone else doing a 100 Day Project?

https://the100dayproject.substack.com - if you get the Substack Sign Up alert, just hit the โ€œNo, thanksโ€ to get to the info.

#dailysketch #ink #drawing #art #artstr #rustypuppyart #100dayproject #100dayrustypuppydrawings

Thank you! It is a misery of my own making, I know. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

Iโ€™m meeting a decades-long friend for breakfast. Iโ€™m a night owl but heโ€™s one of those insane early birds.

It be like this today. ๐Ÿฅฑ

#memes #tooearly