Tonight, at the beginning of my Artist's Way class, our teacher read a Rumi poem.
"The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings." — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi We were discussing creative blocks this evening. I thought through my many struggles with creative blocks, as well as my current ones, the inability to... what is that word? Oh, yes... finish... The inability to finish any work. I am an amazing starter. I have half finished projects littering my studio. I have half-formed ideas and far off dreams. Yes, a self-starter, through and through, that is me. But a self-finisher? Yet to be determined. Perhaps the "door there is devastation" and the only way I will "learn it" is to fall. Rumi says, "They fall, and falling, they're given wings." I guess my current "falling" is my lack of finish. Luckily, though, I did learn an important lesson: Rumi always applies. I checked out some more of the ancient poet's words and found a lot of resonating thoughts with my current feelings about my art work. "Let Yourself Be Silently Drawn By the Stronger Pull Of That Which You Really Love." — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi I could go on and on, but perhaps I should find all the barriers between me and my love and be drawn silently to my easel. In an effort to nourish my creativity, perhaps I will try to be more poetic. Here goes: Good nights are filled with the beauty of creation. The sweet joy of paint on canvas and moonlight shining in my studio window. Beautiful night.
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Rachel Van Patten
4/14/2011 01:36:48 pm
I really like these Rumi sayings and poems. I find they cause me to think myself about my own barriers.
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