Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life.... They are the artists of being alive.

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept him alive, awake .. who have encouraged him without even trying - just by being. They have been One's real teachers.

In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.