Quotes from my daughter for the new year.... pretty cool!

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value. Rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

- C. S. Lewis


“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’”

- Mary Anne Radmache


“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”

- E.E. Cummings


Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

- Robert A. Heinlein  (my daughter really liked this one!)

Letting go

"Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself."  Deepak Chopra

I believe after taking responsibility for past actions we really have to let go.  Really let go.  This action is taking responsibility for ourselves.  No guilt, no looking back.  Letting go is loving ourselves, it is giving ourselves a second chance.  I take responsibility for my errors and mistakes, and let go, they go away with the old year.  The new year comes with hope and possibilities.  I welcome the possibilities.  I let go.  I do not look back.

Melody Beattie has a beautiful book about this: The Art of Letting Go.

Personally I find hard to let go I am planning on reading this book  daily, since it has meditations for each day!

I am planning on a Happy New Year and I am wishing a happy one for everyone too!!!!!!

Abundance for 2011

"According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)" 
— Deepak Chopra (Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the infinite power of coincidence to create miracles)

this new year, as an artist, I want to stop worrying about money.  WORRY ABOUT MONEY IS THE BIGGEST OBSTACLE FOR HIGHER CREATIVITY.  I will be painting from my heart, from my sou.  The rest will come by itself.  When I stop worrying about money, I start entering the cicle or universal abundance.  I have worried about to much in the past.  I am willing to break that circle!

emerging from the dark

I am convinced that to reach the light we have to emerge from the darkness.  It is when everything around you closes in and seem to strangle your surroundings.   I found to be looking for "something else" "somewhere else", a place with less suffering.  I have also experienced that fear paralyzed me to get out.  Fear of almost everything.  This has also happened to me with my paintings.  I have been in cycles where I do not get anywhere, I keep doing the same mistakes, I get my self totally blocked.  It is when I have been in that hole that I think 'there must be something else somewhere for me"  And parting from that desperate situation I have searched for something different, to have different results.  I have started to look INSIDE ME, where everything exists.  The fear, but also the power.

I started reading The Power is Within You, Louise Hay.  It was there where I discover that what I was looking for outside, existed in me and only in me.  I could get out of darkness.  psychological and creative darkness,   This was a very simple, basic book, but it contents were powerful an convincing.  This was about the start of taking responsibility for my creativity, and above all I started the searching of my own soul.

This was about five years ago, and this concept still prevails in me


A PAINTER SHOULD BEGIN EVERY CANVAS WITH A WASH OF BLACK, BECAUSE ALL THINGS IN NATURE ARE DARK EXCEPT WHERE EXPOSED BY THE LIGHT

Leonardo Da Vinci

The way

I had made a new start, a new life and did not look back.  Since I had retired from my usual work in Guatemala, I would dedicate my new life to forgive and forget.  Painting would do all that for me, after all that was something I had done all my life.   In this journey I would also find a way to step up from being a painter to being a true artist.  Was there a difference?

Creativity does not find its way when you are overwhelmed by pain.  I new I had a lot of healing to do
Would higher creativity could come with the process of healing.  I would have to find out how to heal and how to bring my art to the next level.  If being an artis was just about talent, higher creativity would not happen in this kind of journey.  Deep in my heart I knew that a healed soul and the artistic expression were coming from the same source.  From the source of the heart, from the true being.  Major changes awaited me in this new path.

Moonlit Walk is the diary of this search.  It showed the way walked and the path to be followed while the moon lights up my steps.     I am not a writer and english is not my first language.  I just found it universal for communicating with the people/artists that are in the same search.  I want to share my story my findings and my dreams with other artists that somewhere in their hearts feel that the spiritual and the artistic go hand by hand with the divine.  I want to share spiritual comments with anybody that have anything to say about this journey.   I know I am not the only one.  I know that there are artists out there that feel that their art is is an aspect of their human spirit, of their higher human spirit.  With this I refer of art as being more than painting, the one that comes from the human soul and not from the human ego.

I want to hear your comments, your experiences.  I want to enrich my own search with the experience of yours if you are willing to share!  This blog is about men and women's souls, the personal discovery, the ways and wandering of artist and people developing creativity in their life.  I am convinced this is the ultimate search of men.  It helps us find our true origins, our true selfs and the true meaning of our lives.
Let's find it together!

Please join me in this walk that emerges from dark and is lit by the moon Just like paintings emerge form the dark and it is the light what defines  them.  Ahead awaits the warm light of the source of enlightment where we all can shine with our own light!  Lets fill this walk with our experiences.  Let's share the different steps that have brought us here.

Anybody that identify him or herself with this journey, being religious or not, agnostic or atheist is welcome.
Let's walk together the path of higher self and higher creativity.

Welcome to Moonlit Way!!!

Beginning my journey

About five years ago I felt the need to start a new journey, a journey that would take my to find answers to my many questions of life.  Starting was not easy.  All I had in my hands was a lot of years of recent suffering, including just being kidnapped in Guatemala.  I also had with me a lot of paintings.  Oil painting and contemporary mixed media.  Some that said nothing and were accumulated in my studio back home, and some others that had found their way to some museums and galleries, most of them never coming back, since they found a home with someone new.  This would not be of much consolation.  My whole life was falling apart as I new it.  All my family, my husband, kinds and myself were scared, angry and confused because of the recent events.  We all would have to have a new life to start away from home.  I had a lot of scars, a lot of forgiving to do to others, and above all, a lot of forgiving to do to myself.  Painting was not giving me any consolation anymore, nothing was.  I had to start a new journey, one that started in another country, leaving our beautiful country behind, one that was in another land.