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Art Invites Healing

Isak Dinesen
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2 min readJul 5, 2023

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2 hands are shaping clay
Photo by Earl Wilcox on Unsplash

Art (ceramics) leaves a mark, symbol, cipher, or signature. Problems can be externalized and de-personalized into an artistic artifact that can be examined and harmonized. Molding clay is tactile and 3 dimensional with the opportunity to enact change, correction, and new solutions. Into the clay, a person presses a message from themself to others and to themself. -Jaroslava Sickova

Art is a form of nourishment of consciousness of the spirit. -Susan Sontag

A colourful palate with a paintbrush and water cup rests on a table before painted tiles of a boat, a lighthouse, and scenes of the sea.
Photo by Ankhesenamun on Unsplash

Art is a kind of spiritual anchor when the certitudes in life are unhinged. -Wassily Kandinsky

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. -Pablo Picasso

May we find transcendence in playfulness.

2 hand prints in orange paint reaching downwards surround a small red heart within the heart shape of opposing thumbs and index fingers.
Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash

Together we sing the world back into congruence, into being, into its original and emergent perfection. -Navajo saying

I have discovered the value of Psychology and Psychiatry, that they can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human. -Jean Vanier

Art forms a living bridge between our minds and the universal spirit of humanity. -Larry Culliford

A waterfall falls over a lush cliff behind an arched bridge to a pool below.
Photo by Chris Briggs on Unsplash

Spirituality is that place where the utterly intimate and the vastly infinite meet. -Rick Fields

Murdoch believed that art in an unreligious age, provides many people with their clearest experience of something grasped as separate, precious, and beneficial. -Harley

We cannot give the wind orders, but we must leave the window open. The Absolute is the wind; our spirit is the window.” -Andre Comte-Sponville on Krishnamurti

Beneath a starry sky using time-lapsed photography light sources are repeatedly moved in the symbol of infinity; a figure 8 on its side.
Photo by freddie marriage on Unsplash

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Isak Dinesen
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Written by Isak Dinesen

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. What the world needs is people who have come alive. " - Howard Thurman (AfricanAmerican)

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