Artful Living

Sometimes I feel inspired and writing or rendering is easy. Sometimes I am uninspired and writing or rendering proves difficult. Sometimes I am inspired at first but the work becomes grueling and I am disheartened.

I create as a matter of principle, whether I am in the mood to do so or not.

I write books and illustrate the covers. I create the title fonts. I compose music and design games. I create memes. I have painted and sculpted. I have acted on stage or for an audio-drama. I have directed short plays and an audio-drama. I sing. I try to dance. When I was a child, I made toys and costumes.

I am an artist for the sake of the art. It was never to make money… but I need money. I have bills to pay and groceries to buy.

My jobs are not my life. They are to provide for what is my life. I am an artist… and my wages pay for the art.

I am not rich. I am not famous. By the unwritten rules of this world, I am a failure, even as an artist. My art is worthless unless I can sell it. It is bad unless many people proclaim otherwise.

My art is as it began: My imagination as creativity. It is what it was always meant to be: What I imagine as something real.

Imagination is fruitless without creativity and creativity is spiritless without imagination. I do not fall short in either regard. I bear spirited fruit. Though I languish in obscurity, it is only as a mortal man. As an artist, I am thriving.

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Mindful Freedom

You do not think for yourself unless you have thoughts of your own. 

The mindless can be educated. They fancy themselves wise by learning what they are told to know and thinking what they are told to think.

See what you see and hear what you hear. Do not think. Merely observe. Notice rather than conclude. You shall realize the truth when it becomes obvious.

You are not your memories. You are not your opinions. You are your actions. What you do is who you are.

The world shall measure you by your wealth, power and intellect. God shall judge you by your faith, diligence and sincerity.

A thought is not your own if it is learned. It must be yours from the beginning. No one tells you what this or that means. Your conclusion is not suggested. You see what you see. You hear what you hear. You conclude accordingly.

Of course it is good to learn from others! You are easy to brainwash if you do not have a firm foundation of your own, however. You must bother to think for yourself… or a mastermind shall do it for you.

In the Likeness of God

The world thrives because of the few who imagine and create. It languishes because of the many who do not.

An evil man who imagines and creates does more good than does a supposedly good man who is unimaginative. The supposedly good man may make things, but products he did not imagine. He is simply a machine of meat. He is nothing without the creator to create what he copies. 

Humanity is a species of the many as people because of the few. 

God favors the imaginative who create what they imagine. He may grant wealth and power to the unworthy but these are not blessings within. He blesses the hearts and minds of the creators, not with happiness, but with inspiration. Even if he curses such a one with an early death, he blesses that the death shall not be in vain. It shall inspire, even as tragedy.

God is the Artist. Creation began as words but when he said “Let there be light” it was illustrated. The figments of his thoughts became shapes and colors. His feelings gave them life.

The soul is the animating agent of the human species. It is the breath of the one who imagined all that began. It is the life of the one who created from the beginning.

Unless you are an angel or a demon, it is in you to imagine and create. If you fail in this regard, then you are squandering your very essence.

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