To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/10/01 03:59
Subject: Re: [K-list] K: Agony and Ecstasy & BLISS!!!
From: Adele Chatelain
On 1999/10/01 03:59, Adele Chatelain posted thus to the K-list:
You mentioned that knowing something doesn't help. That
depends.
I remember the best advice I ever got in Art Academy:
first,
learn the traditional path (even Matisse taught his students
realistic drawing according to tradition). After you have
mastered the traditional path, forget everything you've
learned.
Learning is very important (by learning, I mean
understanding
something intellectually) because it provides roots,
stability.
Once the roots are secure, then one can let oneself go and
be free to explore.
At least that is what I have found. It's very important to
me to analyze something first. That is the way I test it's
root in what I call reality.
Love and/or happiness is the same thing for me. Sometimes
it
can be a 'blind'. Now, if I were to flogg myself over
feeling
feelings of love and/or happiness, then I am entering the
realm of neurosis (please understand this is my own opinion;
I'm not staking any claim on Absolute Truth, here).
The key is the ability to let anything go, I think. Even
love.
Not letting go in a cruel say, but by letting it go, it has
not taken possession of one's soul.
Someone once mentioned compassion being higher or better
than
passionate love. I tend to agree here, because passionate
love creates a lock onto the mind and heart (obsession)
whereas
compassion is detached concern.
Love this list,
adele
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