The
Hidden Sphere
(of Artistic Concerns) Cecil Orion
Touchon
81
That which flows from the creative
harmony
does not aspire to be beautiful
and pretty
and yet its honesty causes it to
be greatly admired.
That which is created to be pretty
and fashionable and
depends on appearance alone may
at first attract
attention but, lacking depth, is
as quickly forgotten.
Those who stand about angueing over
this or that
superfulous detail are blind to
the essence of things, they
busily acquire knowledge
and information so that, when
speaking, they sound authoritive.
If one has a grasp of the essence
of things, one realizes
that the art of knowing supersedes
the aquisition of knowlege. [1]
The mastercraftsman does not hoard.
Giving himself over to the creative
harmony
his actions become a benediction
to his community [2]
holding nothing, he possesses all
in abundance. [3]
Thus harmony brings benefit without
harm
The mastercraftsman, competing
with no one,
excell at his work.
footnotes
[1] You perceive that the principle resistance they (the Pre-Raphaelites)
have to make is to that spurious beauty, whose attractiveness had tempted
men to forget, or to despise, the more noble quality of sincerity: and
in order to at once put them beyond the power of temptation from this beauty,
they are, as a boby, characterized by a total absence of sensibility to
the ordinary and popular forms of artistic gracefulness; while, to all
that still lower kind of prettiness, which regulates the disposition of
our scenes upon the stage, and which appears in our lower art, as in our
annuals, our commonplace portraits, and statuary, the Pre-Raphaelites are
not only dead, but they regard it with a contempt and aversion approaching
to disgust.
John Ruskin; from The Lamp of Beauty;Writings on Art,
page 65
[2] The day will come when man will live a fuller life, a more complete
life of high ideals and great principles, when feeling in man will be as
much awakened as reason. When that day comes the knowledge will be spiritual
knowledge, not book learning... One can feel everywhere, in colleges, in
societies, in clubs, in any of the professions, that every person is seeking
directly or indirectly for some knowledge; man feels that there is a knowledge
which is more real. Every person seems to be disappointed with his experience
of life. He may be most successful in the world, it does not matter. He
may be a rich man, he may have a high position, but he is disappointed,
he is longing for something which will satisfy him. What is it? It is not
outside. It is within himself. He will find it on the day when he awakens
to the reality of life. Once a soul is awakened to the reality of life,
all other things matter little. What matters is that he understands clearly
that what satisfies is within.
Revolutions and harmony, war and peace, are all parts of a whole
being. But contentment and perfect resignation open up a harmonious feeling
and bring the divine will into harmony with our own. Our blessing now becomes
a divine blessing, our words divine words, our atmosphere a divine atmosphere,
although we seem to be limited beings; for our will becomes absorbed into
the whole, and so our will becomes the will of God.
Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Will; Human and Divine
[3] Nothing is better for a man than to be without anything, having
no asceticism, no theory, no practice. When he is without everything, he
is with everything.
Abu Yazid Al-Bistami
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