All bad things are a mirror of your mind.
Everything has its reason to be here––prejudices, hatred, lies and violence––to maybe finally wake us up.
And artists, take special heed here––a little self-directed kindness may just be what you need to get you through whatever is blocking you:
Be kind once a day––even if it's just in your mind.
Experience is an artist's fuel. The more difficult the experience the higher the octane. Making art from pain allows for squeezing the diamonds out of the coal, coal that might otherwise burn into toxic clouds within. In that way, artmaking is green energy for the soul.
Yoko's extreme hope is especially interesting once you know her story. It's a story that makes experiencing her work as an artist all the more interesting. Lennon saw it immediately. Through artmaking we take ownership of our stories and keep the stories from owning us.
Diamonds, not coal: Try it. It works.
The above taken from Yoko's Twitter feed.
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