In the past, I’ve made my way by using both the blind energy of unexamined ideals as well as the comfortable inertia of cynical certainty.  Both states wallow in personal comfort.   What is truly sublime is to recognize that ALL ideals are ultimately unprovable, and to still act with the rock-solid conviction of the unjaded zealot, all…

At a certain point, the artist must let go of the express purpose of using others’ work to lose him/herself and examine WHY that work is appealing.  That type of introspection reveals deeper principle behind what’s awe-inspiring; it allows the artist to bring forth that beauty in their own personalized iteration.  Now that may not…

To grab hold of an audience, let go of yourself.

We are transformed by starvation into beasts, transformed by addiction into monsters.

Those who seek the transcendent will endeavor to observe the common thread between times, people, and every imaginable separation.  Not only that, they will seek to make their knowledge an organic, functional thing.  Others will wallow in the divide, or that gilded cage where they can see what is transcendent yet never have to apply…

Intent informs everything; it’s the difference between a joke and a phrase full of hate, the difference between killing and murder, the difference between self-serving and truly selfless.  The aspiration must not to stay within the reductive cage of rules and political correctness, but to easily jump from seeming opposites, with the light of clarified…

At some deep level, most of us are aware that we are more than these fleshy constructs.  So let’s be simultaneously kind and demanding of ourselve(s), so that the infinite [whatever-it-is] gets its chance to make the most of our fragile forms.  

Tending/managing the body’s baser needs is not weakness; it is humble acknowledgement. Those who pretend differently invite the propagation of ignorance, the pain of suppression, and—if they are unlucky—an involuntary meltdown.