“In the deep, pure, loving, joyful, peaceful rightness we are all one, but the highest expressions of radiance of kindness and art break open the limitation of human thought and belief’s arbitrary boundaries into what must be–for the definitions and limits of our existences depend on it–the most extraordinary expression of the miracle of Beingness into the miracle of forms. The defining of that must be inspired and brilliant. Artists are the Beings of divine scribes and prophets. They bring it about of themselves of their own creations, the very process of divine creation hand in hand with the conscious cosmos.

But there is a vortex, a sucking pull of a downward spiral of seeking self and identity about form and trying to pull everyone and everything inside that frustration and emptiness with them, so much so as to find oneself pulled frustrated to the bottom in the hell of it; or an upward illumination, not of small self, but of Beingness, which opens the vision that Beingness miraculously exists in all forms, a recognition that does not seek to “lord over,” but participates in astonishment at how even the starving child in the Sudan is the cosmos in its most beautiful expression looking back at you.”

AUTHOR WILLA CATHER