Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."
- Lin Yutang
"Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
- Lao Tzu
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Monika, I love the subtlety of this drawing, how it wraps itself around nothing and so beholds all things. And its guide? Wisdom. And what does this wisdom tell us? That mind is in its essence iefficient and so “non-essential.” What we don’t need are the complications of emotionally fraught circumstances. Reason, in its highest sense – and reason is a sense!—is emotionally informed because it is intuitive, that is, felt by both experience and logic. The key, as this drawing says to me, is to develop that certain type of reason or logic that (in)forms; that is, forms within, a deeper understanding, for understanding is the remedy of all afflictions, on all levels of being. Even at the highest spiritual levels, there is the psychological containment that helps us discern what is healthy from unhealthy, true versus untrue, real versus unreal. And the guide? A well-developed capacity to feel one’s self, the other and ultimately all beings. The “wrapping” is our nature, as nature itself shows us. Nature represents for us harmony and balance, and shows us that indeed nothing is lacking, for it – being-- is, as it is.
ReplyDelete"...how it wraps itself around nothing and so beholds all things...", very well put. After I had done the basic drawing, I asked myself "what is happening in the middle? is there something missing?", "no", my inner voice said, "keep it simple and it will be complete" - and so I listened :)
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