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All Those Tiny Egos . . .
All Those Tiny Egos . . .
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Painting As Spiritual Practice: Life Lessons Learned, One Brushstroke At A Time
Painting As Spiritual Practice: Life Lessons Learned, One Brushstroke At A Time

Spiritual truths often arrive wearing unexpected disguises. It’s wrong to assume that the only way to get ‘there’ is by sitting in deep meditation on a mountaintop. True, that method might work for you, but there are limitless ways to arrive at some of the deeper understandings about the nature of Life that don’t require walking traditional routes. Take painting for example . . . 

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Life: A Work In Progress
Life: A Work In Progress

Each one of our precious, unique Lives are essentially works in progress . . . collectively composed of little 'chips' here and there applied over long stretches of time. And ever-so-slowly with great patience and a continuously evolving sense of inner understanding, forms take shape, things and ideas gradually make more sense . . . destinies become more clearly defined. 

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“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into progress traps. A small village on good land beside a river is a good idea; but when the village grows into a city and paves over the good land, it becomes a bad idea. While prevention might have been easy, a cure may be impossible: a city isn’t easily moved. This human inability to foresee - or to watch out for - long-range consequences may be inherent to our kind, shaped by the millions of years when we lived from hand to mouth by hunting and gathering. It may also be little more than a mix of inertia, greed, and foolishness encouraged by the shape of the social pyramid. The concentration of power at the top of large-scale societies gives the elite a vested interest in the status quo; they continue to prosper in darkening times long after the environment and general populace begin to suffer.” @christopherpalbickiartist #moderntimes #2018 #willwesurvive #civilization #progress #humans #badideas #foolishness #gambling #uncertainty #wakeup #awakening #seethrough 🙏🙏🙏🙏
New piece in progress . . . @christopherpalbickiartist #painting #paintings #tellastory #stories #acrylicpainting #acrylic #artwork #artinprogress #studiotime #creativelife ❤️😃🕉🙏🎨❤️
Moons of mystery . . . 🌕 @christopherpalbickiartist #moon #moons #mystery #darknight #darkness #strangedays #weirdworld #unknown #night 🙏🕉
A night among the planets . . . Holst’s masterpiece never gets old. Always inspiring! @christopherpalbickiartist #symphony #planets #minnesotaorchestra #nightout #livemusic #orchestra #holst #gustavholst #classicmusic #inspired #grateful #happysunday ❤️😃🎼❤️
Autumn reading . . . and it’s the 200th anniversary of the first printing. How many teenagers can take credit for creating as lasting a work of art as this? AND she singlehandedly invented a new genre: science fiction @christopherpalbickiartist #maryshelly #greatliterature #frankenstein #greatbook #classicbooks #masterpiece #sciencefiction #sciencefictionbooks #bicentennial ❤️❤️❤️
Playing with a new technique for creating more interesting backgrounds . . . Experimenting is FUN! @christopherpalbickiartist #acrylicpainting #acrylics #painting #paintings #paint #backgrounds #background #artwork #studiowork #artstudio #experimental 🎨🕉❤️😃
Within 30 seconds of laying out a gesso board to make some measurements for a new painting, Rocky and Charlotte move into position . . . Oh how I love cats! @christopherpalbickiartist #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #catsofinstagram #catstagram #kitties #kittiesofinstagram #makingart #happytuesday 😺😲😺😳😺❤️
Sunday morning berry run . . . @christopherpalbickiartist #raspberries #raspberry #berrypicking #berries #sundaymorning #sunnyday #september #sunshine #greatoutdoors #gratitude 😃☀️❤️
From Frank Ostaseski’s wonderful new book The Five Invitations: “We cannot be truly alive without maintaining an awareness of death. Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. Shortly after the famous psychologist Abraham Maslow suffered a near-fatal heart attack, he wrote in a letter: ‘The confrontation with death - and the reprieve from it - makes everything look so precious, so sacred, so beautiful that I feel more strongly than ever the impulse to love it, to embrace it, and to let myself be overwhelmed by it. My river has never looked so beautiful . . . Death, and it’s ever-present possibility, makes love, passionate love, more possible.’ @christopherpalbickiartist #awake #death #nofear #embrace #fearlessness #courage #awaken #wakeup #teachers #myteacher #awareness ❤️😃🙏🕉