“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
~Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) Journalist, Novelist
There could not be a more fitting time than 1.1.11 to begin crafting the image of self and the life around you. Today we have been given a blank canvas and an opportunity to realize more of what we have in store for 2011. Create an image of your own identity where your thoughts are the brush hand woven by the mind, your consciousness is the framework and your life is your canvas.
Before you begin, make sure your canvas is authentic to you and not anybody else's. The most beautiful paintings are crafted not just from a paint brush but more so behind a crystal clear vision. An inward view of beauty which becomes an outward product of the life which you see before you.
When sketching the image of your life, imagine it from the inside out and not the other way around. If you have problems looking within, stare at yourself in the mirror. The truth may look ugly to you but with a clean canvas, you have the ability to change your image for now and forever.
The most beautiful art is simplicity in it's essence. Erase the clutter from 2010 and concentrate your craft on only that which matters most to self. Don't paint things or possessions or attainments or achievements. Those don't matter in the true image of self. There is much more beauty which beholds within.
Make an effort in your art to create something new, not reproducing what has already been done. Most of society places higher priority on following or keeping up with a fast paced, always moving world. Our effort should consist of creating a more gratifying human world with more creativity and less conformity.
Today, stand in front of your canvas and envision the shape in which you want your year to look like. It starts now, while it is the most fresh in your head, not tomorrow when the vision is cloudy. Don't hesitate, start sketching it out in your head. Take the initiative to live your life according to the way only you know you can. Life is what you make of it. Take your brush, dip it into your soul and paint your true nature the way it was intended. I think Kahlil Gibran, the Prophet said it best here,
"True art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes."
Real creation is expression through the way you craft yourself. You are a canvas, life is your creation, now go carve your future.
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