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.

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.

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

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.

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