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one of my paintings done with watercolor crayons
celebrating the art of paradox
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delving into the wisdom of absurdity in whimsical way
this blog is about paradox.
through my questions, i hope to encounter the paradox within belief, that place where there is not one answer but many contradictory ones.
each question, each drawing is an invitation to join me in allowing what appears absurd to take us to a wisdom beyond linear thinking.
as long as we question, we are free. free to see, to feel and to express who we are. and to connect collaboratively with one another.
About Me
- anne artist
- i am a painter who began my career as a child coloring outside the lines of my coloring books. i am a writer who started out by composing adventure stories while riding my stick horse around the backyard. as a child, i got in trouble for asking too many questions...i question that.
you can find my cartoons in this online magazine!
http://thoughtsonsale.com/
here is the link to my photography blog about simplicity:
on a clear day she could see forever
one of my paintings done with watercolor crayons
"the emperor's new clothes" by hans christian andersen
this fairy tale has been a companion to me as i have traveled through my life.
briefly, it is about an emperor who was deceived by two tailors who said they were making a set of clothing out of a "dream" fabric. in reality, they used no fabric at all. to make their scam complete, they announced that only those who were wise enough would be able to see the beautiful clothing. and so, no one, not even the emperor, admitted to being unable to see it.
wearing his new "clothing", the emperor paraded through his kingdom. no one questioned his appearance; no one wished to appear less than wise.
until a small child asked, "why is the emperor not wearing any clothes?"
so it is that i ask, if i question rather than believe i am wise, what will i see?
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When you speak...do you want someone to hear , to listen to you ?? i won't mind if i speak and no one listens....becos to listen or not ...is the other person, or persons response ...and not mine to control ...but if i speak ...what do i really want to do ?? or what is my intention ??
s.a., i like your questions.
if i am speaking my mind, to whom am i speaking? to my own self or to another person? if i speak my mind, is it an invitation to share an experience with me? do i use my words as weapons with which to separate me from another?
if i speak rather than write in a journal, why am i doing that?
what does it say if no one listens?
what does it say if i do not listen to my own words?
Perhaps that is why you write a journal...becos you need not to be listen to by somebody, and you write so that you can review what you said to yourself ...in time to come ....when you speak ...are you making your point ?? Or are you trying to convince somebody to accept your point ?? or both ?? So, this is the difference :)
so, there is a difference...........making a point could be about enabling myself to have a clearer idea about how i am thinking. if i try to convince someone that i am right is about..........?
if i don't speak my mind, will i mind if i hear only silence?
Slience can be scary ....at other times slience let us have a peaceful and refreshing feeling ....guess sometimes we need to know when, and what is best to speak ...before we speak ...so that we dun hurt others or make unnesscary comments to worsen situation :)...that takes wisdom, experience and practise :)
It is immensely satisfying to say what you want.. as you probably felt when you framed this question and posted it, regardless if anyone reads it or not :)
r, well done..........!
s.a., i wonder if sometimes silence speaks so loudly that it is unpleasant to hear.
Anne, agreed with you sometimes slience can be so unpleasant to hear ...or maybe bear :)
it seems that we learn to meditate in order to still the inner voice, to create a silence within us. and that is calming.
but yet, when i do that, i just might miss hearing that inner voice, that companion. not the ego oriented, blaming part, but the gentler voice.
i wonder if there is an inner voice who sings my song and reminds me that it is all just a dance, a lovely all too brief dance.
For the brief dance ...can i be your partner to that dance :)...haha ...Anne jus joking,guess a man is preferred for your dance ....i liked the way you mentioned about the voice singing in our heart ...that voice will be a gentle and sweet sound that even when there is no one listening ....you will heard it :)
although it is my song and my dance and i dance alone.........is it not also our song and the dance we cannot help but dance together?
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