Walk Softly Live Gently

A wonderful painting is the result of the feeling in your fingers. If you have the feeling of the thickness of the ink in your brush, the painting is already there before you paint. When you dip your brush into the ink you already know the result of your drawing, or else you cannot paint. So before you do something, “being” is there, the result is there. Even though you look as if you were sitting quietly, all your activity, past and present, is included, and the result of your sitting is also already there. - D.T. Suzuki…

Here’s a synapse twister from Wei Wu Wei. Picture is mine. Text taken from “Ask The Awakened” by the aforementioned guy with the funny name.

“It is necessary to understand that I Am,

In order that I may know that I Am Not,

So that, at last, I may realize that,

I Am Not, therefore I Am.”

Wei Wu Wei

My impression of the impressionists. Nothing too exciting here, just practicing brush strokes, mixing colors, etc.

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