May 18, 2023
Day 328 Art Meditation
I really do love believing in something that has not been fully formed yet - my Heart-Art Bundles with other people. The union between two people in a Kindred-Spirit kind of way is always beautiful. This shouldn’t be left to just marriages, or friendships - and I love this idea I have to create a Kindred-Spirit space with my Heart-Art Bundles.
Today my heart is so FULL, which isn’t because my life is perfect. I think it’s connected to the amazing volunteer experience I had this week. I spoke to an old gentleman and during the conversation he had difficulty speaking, and …. I have to say, as I experienced his struggle, my heart got bigger and more open.
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Unlocking Creativity: Embracing a Fresh Perspective on the Ordinary
When we take things for granted, we tend to view them through a familiar lens, rather than questioning their underlying assumptions or exploring alternative perspectives. To think creatively, we need to be able to break free from our conventional thinking and see things from a fresh perspective, which can lead to new insights and innovative solutions.
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Unlocking Creativity: Embracing a Fresh Perspective on the Ordinary
When we take things for granted, we tend to view them through a familiar lens, rather than questioning their underlying assumptions or exploring alternative perspectives. To think creatively, we need to be able to break free from our conventional thinking and see things from a fresh perspective, which can lead to new insights and innovative solutions.
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Did you know that empty cigar boxes can hold more than just cigars?
They can keep art supplies, tools, makeup, jewelry, money, candies, gifts, and pretty much anything you can think of that will fit in a box, a beautiful, unique box that most people have never seen before!
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OUTSIDE THE BOX
JOHN MCINTOSH
Thinking outside the box is a relatively well know phrase which ‘suggests’ that one expand their perspective beyond what most refer to as ‘normal’ and even ‘acceptable’ behaviour … at the moment. When this occurs possibilities arise that are not normally seen by the mind, and this can lead to a fuller, richer life experience … at least - this is the ‘story’.
For example, an entrepreneur or an artist in many creative fields tend to ‘think outside the box’. They are often called radical, rebellious, extremists and often black sheep. Their lives tend to exhibit these expressions and whether they produce great works of not, there ‘is’ an essence of ‘freedom’ surrounding them no matter how ‘unstable’ their experiences may be.
What is NOT well known is that there are ‘many’ boxes – ‘nested’ boxes within each other and the freedom experienced is still within a prison with the bars further and further away from view as the mind expands beyond each box. Whatever emanates from the mind arises from the false self [ego], which is the product of the belief in separation. This belief manifests the entire illusory world/universe including this false entity called ‘me’. It IS an enormous prison where the indivisible Whole-ness of the ONE SELF You Really Are is NOT known.
‘Thinking’ IS the obstacle and its end coincides with the end of the mind-oriented false identity. To Truly LIVE outside the box of illusions … ‘you’ must disappear.
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Day 340 art meditation, August 9, 2023
I’ve been busy. By which I mean I’ve been writing. It brings me to my knees, to tell that much truth. I think somebody lied a little when they said being a writer is “so wonderful”, but knowing this doesn’t break the calling.
I gave up swimming for 2 weeks, and decided yesterday that I can’t function properly without swimming 🏊🏼♀️ … I am so deeply grateful that in spite of serious knee issues, I can swim, I love to swim and it’s available to me. Back to it. A piece of BLISS.
I've been looking at everything I’ve made for All-lines-are-beautiful the last 10 years. Owning my journey is extremely painful. My different attempts to succeed outwardly, my art, blog posts, journals, photography, print store, now art store, NFT’s, the different people I’ve connected with which didn’t create any kind of blossoming. Everything comes with a memory. It’s a miracle I have any kind of sense of humor left.
There is only one thing that stands, other than my once-a-month piece of humor (G counts), which is the sureness I feel of my Heart-Space. The thing that we all have inside us that connects, loves, creates, expands, cries, laughs, heals ….
It’s nothing to put on LinkedIn, if I were to play by the rules, which I do not, since there are no rules, and so I will … Living from our Heart-spaces is tricky within this Patriarchy.
In the midst of it all, a miracle happened. My boyfriend had an inner experience, he wrote an essay about this, poetically ... It was completely from his heart. It was breath-taking. It was surprising, I’m sorry to admit with my generally low opinion of men. My logical, facts-loving, former tech and sales guy, made a Heart move. Not the first of course, and I’m not counting. He took serious pain and transformed it into something bigger, something for the world. I would even venture to say it was a slice of Awakening. We are 54 and 55 - just in case anyone thinks inner growth happens when we are younger and getting everything we want out of life.
But I’m not surprised by his inner event. It proves what I know, not what I think, beyond a doubt, that we all have MORE layers to our Hearts, if ONLY we had the courage to tap into them.
Which is why I offer my Heart-Art Bundles - my art and you write and feel into it. This is pure courage and believing in the depths of our beings. It's the Newness of Life.
It’s not about changing people. It’s not about getting logical people to be intuitive. Is that wherever we are on the human journey, there is MORE to our Hearts. I’m saying specifically that even Oprah and Eckhard aren't done expanding their hearts. Everyone has more heart-layers. Okay some of us more than others.
Today is a little Ode to and my All-lines-are-beautiful life. I wouldn’t trade it for ANYTHING. I am finally at the point in my life where I can Feel what my beloved coach told me when we first met - and this is why today is so important, “I am so excited for you!”
Outside the realm of Answers, I will just continue to co-create with the Universe, one blissful step at a time.
Heart-Strong and with Much Love,
Anne
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