Excerpt from The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

A Toltec is an artist of Love, an artist of the Spirit, someone who is creating every moment, every second, the most beautiful art – the Art of Dreaming. Life is nothing but a dream, and if we are artists, then we can create our life with Love, and our dream becomes a masterpiece of [...]

The healthiest form of projection is art. – Fritz Perls

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. – Ernst Fischer

Every artist dips his brush into his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher

The Web Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine by Ted J. Kaptchuk

Medicine East and West The Western physician starts with a symptom, then searches for the underlying mechanism – a precise cause for a specific disease. The physician’s logic is analytic – cutting through the accumulation of bodily phenomena like a surgeon’s scalpel to isolate one single entity or cause. The Chinese physician directs his or [...]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

[Click here for more on Metaphysics of Quality] Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere. We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on “good” rather than “time” and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes. One does not convert individuals [...]

The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels. If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of [...]

The Realistic Painter by Nietzsche

‘Completely true to nature!’ – what a lie: How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? The smallest bits of nature is infinite! And so he paints what he likes about it. And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Magic Theatre Entrance Not for everybody For Madmen Only! Price of Admittance your mind …he had created within himself with positive genius a boundless and frightful capacity for pain. Most men will not swim before they are able to. Is not that witty? Naturally, they won’t swim! They are born for the solid earth, not [...]

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Berthold Auerbach