A Quote by Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.
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I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.
I was never exposed to art school. I grew up in an artist's studio. I was exposed a lot of studio time between of my father and a great painter I studied with in Barcelona. That was my art school, as Europe was.
If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.
Many of life's problems and sorrows are inevitable, but feeling sorry for yourself is a choice.
The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.
Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
For the wisdom of the flesh brings death, but that of the spirit brings life and peace, since the wisdom of the flesh is the enemy of God; it is not subject to God's law, nor can it be. And since the wisdom of the flesh is unable to bear the yoke of God's law, it cannot look upon it either, for its eyes are clouded with the smoke of pride.
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of this lifeleads men to a ruinous ignorance of the fact that their inevitable rewards and punishments are here.
Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.
When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.
History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
