This is one essay I'll need to read many times again as each sentence states something profound and worthy of contemplating in a longer attention span. The conflicts and harmonizing between the mind and the heart is something I've worked with in my art for many years and is something I think about often depending on what I'm deciding. In romance....my heart wins over which can and has been problems throughout my life so I try try try to inject the mind and its rationale into the issue. In the studio, the heart takes precedence but the mind isn't ignored and "helps" out tremendously and I allow that to happen gratefully, especially when I need to engineer the "how to" of attaching items to one another. I think that as I get older, it is easier for me to merge or rather have the mind and heart coexist........each separate yet working together without becoming a mixed mess as it did when I was much younger. Side note: I used to have calling cards with an ink-stamp of both an anatomical heart and brain on it which I felt described my essence better than words could.
Your quotes are all from among the people whom I’ve considered my go-to for wisdom. Thanks.
Cecil, this is a wonderful article full of wisdom and insight. I think you applied it all to the edited version which is why I voted for that one!!
This is one essay I'll need to read many times again as each sentence states something profound and worthy of contemplating in a longer attention span. The conflicts and harmonizing between the mind and the heart is something I've worked with in my art for many years and is something I think about often depending on what I'm deciding. In romance....my heart wins over which can and has been problems throughout my life so I try try try to inject the mind and its rationale into the issue. In the studio, the heart takes precedence but the mind isn't ignored and "helps" out tremendously and I allow that to happen gratefully, especially when I need to engineer the "how to" of attaching items to one another. I think that as I get older, it is easier for me to merge or rather have the mind and heart coexist........each separate yet working together without becoming a mixed mess as it did when I was much younger. Side note: I used to have calling cards with an ink-stamp of both an anatomical heart and brain on it which I felt described my essence better than words could.