Inspiration

There is no doubt that when I am happiest is when I am most inspired.

If I reflect on what inspires me the most it's when people have complete enthusiasm for life. It's so easy to get stuck in fear, or to start to trudge through life as if it were a grim obligation. There are times when life tastes sour. Things can seem difficult and heavy. I'm inspired by people who have the awareness that they make their own reality, the people who laugh at any inhibitions and make the life they want to live appear before them with unwavering confidence. These people know the secret, that reality is a collective dream, and we have a hand in it.

The artists that inspire me the most are not necessarily the best artists, but the ones who on top of creating great objects of beauty lived to their fullest and explored all interests as deeply as they dared, unburdened by fear.

And the most inspired periods of my life have been when I've been able to taste some of this freedom for my own, in which I spent every moment eager for the next, and when all things felt possible. Through some stroke of luck I HAVE been able to break through the barriers that inevitably possess us, and to dance with the infinite in all its possibilities. But they reemerge...

The Danger of Spiritual Narcissism

I think much of the spirituality in the West is primarily self-inclined. That is to say, the momentum of Western spirituality is mostly oriented towards the improvement of the feelings and conditions of the individual. What is becoming more apparent to me on my own path of healing, however, is that the healing of the individual can not altogether be independent of the healing of the whole. It is impossible to be altogether healthy within the context of a sick culture. We are too greatly connected for any individual to be in any way isolated from the whole. Such are the conditions of our global climate. Counter-culture bubbles, cozy they may be, are not immune to the influence of the greater culture. It is truly us, and it is truly we, and any healing on an individual level will always be directly symbiotic to that of all civilization.