Thinking as an Art

Hi Ton,

One more thought.

Have you ever thought of thinking as an Art?

Writing is certainly a means for thinking to be an Art because it forces one to put a thoughtless world into a thoughtful form.

I realize you might think I am terrible in this Art but I have no idea how else to get good at it if I don’t practice it. And what I really want to do is to invite you to play with it. We are each such beautiful, huge, great creative beings that it only takes a little bit of digging inside to allow for one’s self to surface! I would love to see you. Not your mind but you, your spirit.

Sometimes I might write whole posts without reaching the depth of my soul but sometimes I only need a few words to feel it flourishing.

How does writing work for you? Communicating?

When in instead of writing we are talking it is also a beautiful thing! It might take a little while too but sometimes it happens in actual speech and it is so very exiting to be a witness of people’s presence when they let their soul come out in their language.

Have you not experienced how language itself is a teacher? I mean, how, when in a dialogue one is able to formulate a complete idea in a few words that had been troubling one for weeks? Or when new knowledge comes with a connection one accidentally made and that wasn’t at all expected?

All Art for me is about establishing greater and stronger connections between one’s self and the world around one for one’s self as much as for those who appreciate the piece so finding in language and dialogue tools to connect more deeply is a very exiting thing.

And then there are people who do not write, or think, or make Artistic things but who in their daily life are more connected to themselves and the world around them than I’ve ever managed more than glimpses of as if having to connect to artistic forms were the necessary struggle of those of us who’ve been violently disconnected to nature and our own nature and Art as much as Work, when work is creative, no matter which, were the elaborate path to find our selves again.

Please share with us what you love. Love is the only thing that inspires us to be our selves. 


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