"Truth integrates My World As a Living Member" - Schopenhauer

Through the illuminated voice of a child
Or a man
Or a woman
It may happen
Full throated and perfect
While every cell of the body stretches
Leaps high
Shakes every nerve awake
The Self
Wide-eyed and open
Feels At-One-Ment
With all humility
Ask That
Your heart may feel It:
This Joy
Once It finds you
Takes residence
When anxious thought flees
Back to a world of information
This Truth Song finds a heart to enter
And is at once at Home

© Ganga Fondan, 2012

Journal Entry July 24, 2012

"A truth is a million times more valuable when you discover it for yourself, even if it has already been revealed in a thousand books." - Arthur Schopenhauer

This latest art journey revealed many shapes and images before I could see the chamber of the heart.  At first came the shape of a huge multicolored jar containing a butterfly being with majestic colored wings.  Two figures stood outside of the jar looking in.  Both were colorless and seemingly free and the butterfly was not.  I could feel a sense of wonder from the creature in the jar.  There was no panic although I could feel it wanted to get out.  Then a shape of a Being, the sound of music and serenity, the two figures outside of the jar disappeared.  I went to my notebook and asked for guidance in this lesson. Arthur Schopenhauer's words guided me back to the digital art again.  The value of the personal experience is what creates the metamorphosis within us.  We become That.  No source outside of ourselves can create this kind of transcending.  My message is to go deeper again.  Look inside again.  Let go of what makes sense to do but cultivate that which feels right.  As in art so in life.  The message is clearly stated in Schopenhauer's third quote from the same notebook page from June 16:


"Merely let authorities confirm what you already know."