tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442431037016100723.post8403070673872040029..comments2024-03-13T00:26:27.061-07:00Comments on Inky Leaves :: Úrsula Romero: Anyone can be a success,but it takes real guts to be a failureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442431037016100723.post-91559594073361421602013-06-26T04:18:07.010-07:002013-06-26T04:18:07.010-07:00Thank you ladies, for this inspirational conversat...Thank you ladies, for this inspirational conversation, for your understanding and the power of your convictions so beautifully expressed. <br /><br />It is so interesting to see how an artist’s work is a reflection of the way they are balanced as a person. When painting nature from life there is always an element of the personality woven into what is described as observational work. In a way the word 'observational' is a something of a veil of appearances because it is inevitable that an artist is also expressing a measure of their relationship to nature, their beliefs, and their understanding of what life is. <br /><br />How an artist defines or experiences having a conscience is partly connected to the family lineage, education, or the collective pressure. I understand what you are saying Jess, because a true conscience, like true service, is driven by unconditional love and it is free from worry. <br /><br />We all have the option to learn to recognise what we have received in our personality, in order to rescue what could be termed the innocence of our conscience. Crisis is necessary, in small and large ways, because it tests our beliefs and our capacity for gratitude and humility. Our understanding is then galvanised or it is broken down, reassessed, and rebuilt. When a crisis is faced without denial and with inner kindness towards one's self, we get the chance to evolve as something new, with which we in turn can create.<br /><br />Coralnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442431037016100723.post-83655852589292144122013-06-25T03:58:17.235-07:002013-06-25T03:58:17.235-07:00SERVICE! Thank you Coral for helping me realise wh...SERVICE! Thank you Coral for helping me realise what it was I was trying to describe at the end of my post. I just couldn't find the word. I completely agree with you in everything that you have said. I believe to be free from fear (including failure and therefore the absolute need to do the opposite- be successful) is to enter a higher state of consciousness and that in turn leads to love. With love comes service to all living things. <br /><br />For me, time is a big problem. We all have an awareness that we have a limited amount if it. We are all mortal and for me it has become my number one enemy. I'm a patient creature, so it's not that I need everything quick, but I do get a kick when I feel I've made good use if my time. Sometimes that us just to sit in the sun and have a sangria but its even better for me when there's something physical to touch, hold and look back at. Something produced. The alchemical process of converting time into something tangible. I have always been fascinated by that. Maybe it is for this reason that I like projects that take a lot if time.<br /><br />So yes, for me to fail at first means I wasted my time. Then I have go deeper and work out that we need to fail and that it is ok to fail and that it wasn't a waste of my time. <br /><br />Time for me is like wearing shackles, but thank god it's there or I'd never get anything done and everything would be pointless. I'd lose respect for life. Time is the master and my best teacher. It's magical.Inky Leaveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00790360372622501431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442431037016100723.post-63959527522045192842013-06-25T03:36:41.493-07:002013-06-25T03:36:41.493-07:00A good point there Janene. Gratitude and being hum...A good point there Janene. Gratitude and being humble are to me the most important traits and experiences in life. They slow one down and feed into the larger experience of awe. Awe of the beauty and power of life's force. Awe of the interconnectedness of everything. Awe then leads to respect. respect for nature, it's mystical properties and all living things that have to deal with its mysteries everyday. That then goes back to being humble. Eventually the ego is crushed, and with it the ego's attachment to success and fear of failure. But I don't think it will never fully go away, because I believe we are all fighting for survival on a very primitive level, and that is the biggest drive to successIt's biologically hot-wired in all creatures. The survival of the fittest. In a most black and white sense we fight for life. I feel us humans just find it tricky being creatures with a conscience. It gets complicated and difficult to measure. We have an amazing ability to become our own worst enemies sometimes!Inky Leaveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00790360372622501431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442431037016100723.post-72064683613722988782013-06-23T13:17:59.333-07:002013-06-23T13:17:59.333-07:00Thanks for the thought provoking post and discussi...Thanks for the thought provoking post and discussion! I agree that success and failure are outside of ourselves--when either begins to define us then we are in trouble. Somehow my failures enrich me as a person and are what I learn from, while success is sweet but fleeting. I find what ultimately keeps me in balance is gratitude, no matter what success or failure I might be experiencing. Gratitude brings me back to reality. Janenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08524256338602386374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442431037016100723.post-30421566724169576622013-06-23T07:32:29.167-07:002013-06-23T07:32:29.167-07:00Beautifully said, thank you Coral.
Thank you again...Beautifully said, thank you Coral.<br />Thank you again Jess for opening the dialogue.<br />Today has been a challenge - but in the midst of the usual frustration that creeps in ... I see the lesson waiting for me.<br />This applies to almost anything in life.<br />Vicki Lee Johnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10409588969370991946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442431037016100723.post-11873271046573716292013-06-23T03:24:43.610-07:002013-06-23T03:24:43.610-07:00Ah what an interesting dialogue Jess and Vicky……. ...Ah what an interesting dialogue Jess and Vicky……. and how good that Howard raised the notion that failure is an opportunity. Out of the quagmire of the remains of the late 20th century artistic neurosis the realisation is emerging that failure is a tool to be used. <br /><br />Failure and success are two sides of the same coin, one depends on the other. Far better to use the opportunity of failure in a positive way because in so doing we experience freedom, the freedom that comes when we do not over-identify with either failure or success. <br /><br />Failure is not who we truly are, it is something we do. We experience both for a reason, through both we gain experience and consequently we evolve. Failure inevitably happens as part of the path to success and success is something once achieved is the sign post to the next failure. From here on I’m with Vicky as the ones with the quest for balance are willing to engage and learn from both success and failure and have enough conscious awareness to refrain from over-identifying with either. <br /><br />Time and time again I see artists compare themselves to other artists and torture themselves with given standards via a twisted impression of what is success and what is failure (neurosis). Success and failure bring us pain and pleasure, but when we are in balance we see them both differently, we see that success and failure are something we use to access balance. <br /><br />It’s only natural. The evolved result of really learning from success and failure is something quite beautiful for a human being - which is service.Coral Guestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442431037016100723.post-78386941133591079392013-06-22T14:37:43.097-07:002013-06-22T14:37:43.097-07:00I am glad you like the post Vicki and found it rea...I am glad you like the post Vicki and found it reassuring and informative. I liked that quote too, but it kind of made me sad at the end of it, so I decided that I didn't like it in the end - and yet it is so true. Balance is certainly the key, and patience and integrity. I bet it's a whorlwind at chez Johnston at the moment with Lauren's news! I wish we were nattering at a table with smoked almonds again. <br /><br />Oh well, one day at a time, each with it's own sense of adventure and mystery. <br /><br />All my love to you and the family. Keep that flexibility going, like pizza dough - a nice romana base, but not so thin that you become a fried poppadom!Inky Leaveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00790360372622501431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442431037016100723.post-55955313188973754742013-06-22T09:22:37.926-07:002013-06-22T09:22:37.926-07:00Oh Jess - I love that you think out loud .. that y...Oh Jess - I love that you think out loud .. that you question and put it out in the universe.<br />Am struggling at the moment with being pulled in so many directions and really questioning everything. <br />This post resonated with me ... thinking about you and wishing we could sit and chat again, I'd love that.<br />My favourite:<br />"success and failure are both an illusion, that these illusions will keep you from the desk, they will spoil your talent; they will eat away at your life ..."<br />And so - I guess I come back to my own spiritual belief of balance being key - the pendulum swings both ways - our work is to sit in the middle somewhere so as not to become unbalanced :)Vicki Lee Johnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10409588969370991946noreply@blogger.com