Dana Wyss Healing Arts
  • Home
  • Dana Wyss
    • Contact
  • Services
  • STORE
  • Blog
    • Educational Resources
    • Recommendations

You Can Only Have It By Letting It Go

12/26/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
Image / Allan Warren


"Most people live in almost total darkness… people, millions of people whom you will never see, who don’t know you, never will know you, people who may try to kill you in the morning, live in a darkness which
— if you have that funny terrible thing which every artist can recognize and no artist can define --
you are responsible to those people to lighten, and it does not matter what happens to you.
You are being used in the way a crab is useful, the way sand certainly has some function.
It is impersonal.
This force which you didn’t ask for, and this destiny which you must accept, is also your responsibility.
And if you survive it, if you don’t cheat, if you don’t lie, it is not only, you know, your glory, your achievement, it is almost our only hope — because only an artist can tell, and only artists have told since we have heard of man, what it is like for anyone who gets to this planet to survive it. What it is like to die, or to have somebody die; what it is like to be glad.
Hymns don’t do this, churches really cannot do it.
The trouble is that although the artist can do it, the price that he has to pay himself and that you, the audience, must also pay, is a willingness to give up everything, to realize that although you spent twenty-seven years acquiring this house, this furniture, this position, although you spent forty years raising this child, these children, nothing, none of it belongs to you.
You can only have it by letting it go.
You can only take if you are prepared to give, and giving is not an investment.
It is not a day at the bargain counter.
It is a total risk of everything, of you and who you think you are, who you think you’d like to be, where you think you’d like to go — everything, and this forever, forever."

- James Baldwin, from The Artist's Struggle for Integrity


Dana Wyss Healing Arts
Breathe deeply, practice often, be well.
http://www.danawyss.com/


0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Dana Wyss

    Pause
    Breathe fully
    Create balance
    Be nourished
    Practice often
    Be well

    I offer private and corporate yoga & meditation training, healing energywork and bodywork to address your whole being and enhance your well-being.
    Breathe deeply, practice often, be well.

    http://www.danawyss.com/

    Archives

    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    July 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015
    February 2015
    December 2014
    October 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013

    Categories

    All
    Ahimsa
    Aparigraha
    Asteya
    Behavior Change
    Body Love
    Breath
    Culteral Healing
    Dreams And Visions
    Earth Love
    Education
    Energy Healing
    HeartMath / Coherence
    Ishvara Pranidhana
    Meditations
    Movement
    On Practice
    Pain
    Poetic Meditations
    Santosha
    Satya
    Seasonal Updates
    Stress
    Svadhyaya
    Tapas
    Touch
    Yamas & Niyamas

    RSS Feed

                                                    Online Appointment Reservations:  http://danawysshealingarts.genbook.com        Phone (512) 903-1933
  • Home
  • Dana Wyss
    • Contact
  • Services
  • STORE
  • Blog
    • Educational Resources
    • Recommendations