Be your own

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert L Stevenson

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain

Sometimes we feel it is safe to do what others are doing, so that somehow we know that we are not going to fail.  Instead of creating  we start trying to please everybody and we loose ourselves in the process. Whoever started what everybody is doing is the true genius in this chain of making.  The creative genius who started what everybody is imitating did it from a place of true creation, out of real conviction, enthusiasm and inspiration.  All of these come from our higher self.  When authenticity happens it comes from that place of the soul where there is not room for comparison or pleasure of the ego.  It happens because it is coming from the vital energy, from the source.

I am going to be creating from my heart.  I will try to establish connection with others through my paintings.  I decide to do my work simple and authentic rather than elaborated to please.  In the process I may not please everybody, maybe even I will please just myself.  My creations will have the intention of connecting my soul with the soul of others.

When we work to please others, we create from fear, from the ego
When we create from our hearts, we create from our higher selves

That is Art
Abundance will follow if we create with faith

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