Comments on: The World In All Its Brilliance http://creativechai.com/the-world-in-all-its-brilliance What Would You Love To Create? Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:22:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dave Rowley http://creativechai.com/the-world-in-all-its-brilliance/comment-page-1#comment-182 Dave Rowley Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:43:11 +0000 http://creativechai.com/?p=293#comment-182 Hello Maya, What a wonderful comment. Thank you so much for the kind words, they really mean a lot to me! 'I keep on keeping on – writing, opening my heart, just being ME.' Isn't that one of the great things about maintaining a creative practice--the way it's so closely tied to our spiritual life, and our own path in discovering who we are. I'm really grateful to have you as a reader. Cheers, Dave Hello Maya,

What a wonderful comment. Thank you so much for the kind words, they really mean a lot to me!

‘I keep on keeping on – writing, opening my heart, just being ME.’

Isn’t that one of the great things about maintaining a creative practice–the way it’s so closely tied to our spiritual life, and our own path in discovering who we are. I’m really grateful to have you as a reader.

Cheers,
Dave

]]> By: Maya @animalswisdom http://creativechai.com/the-world-in-all-its-brilliance/comment-page-1#comment-175 Maya @animalswisdom Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:11:19 +0000 http://creativechai.com/?p=293#comment-175 Dave, Just reread this last post of yours for like the third or fourth time (all separate visits) - you describe the moment you had while stopped at the light with such clarity and realness. This is exactly how I feel when I am swimming in my creative moments with my writing or when I have camera in hand and have come across a beautiful piece of time/space. I visit your site for inspiration in creativity, to feel the kindredness of a fellow creative. Also, thank you so much for writing and sharing your beautiful paintings - this makes all the difference to me. I keep on keeping on - writing, opening my heart, just being ME. I will be back soon for more extreme goodness! Maya Dave,
Just reread this last post of yours for like the third or fourth time (all separate visits) – you describe the moment you had while stopped at the light with such clarity and realness.

This is exactly how I feel when I am swimming in my creative moments with my writing or when I have camera in hand and have come across a beautiful piece of time/space.

I visit your site for inspiration in creativity, to feel the kindredness of a fellow creative.

Also, thank you so much for writing and sharing your beautiful paintings – this makes all the difference to me.

I keep on keeping on – writing, opening my heart, just being ME.

I will be back soon for more extreme goodness!
Maya

]]> By: Dave Rowley http://creativechai.com/the-world-in-all-its-brilliance/comment-page-1#comment-162 Dave Rowley Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:38:37 +0000 http://creativechai.com/?p=293#comment-162 Hi Steven, Thanks for reading, I'm glad you enjoyed the post. Cheers. Hi Steven,

Thanks for reading, I’m glad you enjoyed the post.

Cheers.

]]> By: Steven | The Emotion Machine http://creativechai.com/the-world-in-all-its-brilliance/comment-page-1#comment-160 Steven | The Emotion Machine Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:28:07 +0000 http://creativechai.com/?p=293#comment-160 I really got absorbed in this post. Great descriptive language - really captured my imagination - thanks for sharing! I really got absorbed in this post. Great descriptive language – really captured my imagination – thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Dave Rowley http://creativechai.com/the-world-in-all-its-brilliance/comment-page-1#comment-158 Dave Rowley Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:25:45 +0000 http://creativechai.com/?p=293#comment-158 Hi Kathy, Thanks so much for your kind words, it's great to know what resonated for you in the post. I love your 'moment in a film' analogy too. I'm really enjoying your blog too and look forward to reading more of your work! Cheers :) Hi Kathy,

Thanks so much for your kind words, it’s great to know what resonated for you in the post. I love your ‘moment in a film’ analogy too. I’m really enjoying your blog too and look forward to reading more of your work!

Cheers :)

]]> By: Kathy Loh http://creativechai.com/the-world-in-all-its-brilliance/comment-page-1#comment-156 Kathy Loh Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:13:58 +0000 http://creativechai.com/?p=293#comment-156 I love these words: "I’m not sure we’re even built to see the world in all its brilliance all the time. I’m sure we gather that mental clothing around us in self-protection, but I’m also pretty sure I go through life a little overdressed." Dave, reading this post was like watching an amazing slow motion moment in a film with just the right sound track. I could hear it, see it, smell it. Amazing. I really get that kind of moment and how it recedes. I especially love that you relate it to art and art to life; the creative practice and the practices of the spirithuman. Great weaving in of your own experience, Chagall, art and humanity. Yours is my new favorite blog find! I love these words: “I’m not sure we’re even built to see the world in all its brilliance all the time. I’m sure we gather that mental clothing around us in self-protection, but I’m also pretty sure I go through life a little overdressed.” Dave, reading this post was like watching an amazing slow motion moment in a film with just the right sound track. I could hear it, see it, smell it. Amazing. I really get that kind of moment and how it recedes. I especially love that you relate it to art and art to life; the creative practice and the practices of the spirithuman. Great weaving in of your own experience, Chagall, art and humanity. Yours is my new favorite blog find!

]]> By: Dave Rowley http://creativechai.com/the-world-in-all-its-brilliance/comment-page-1#comment-155 Dave Rowley Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:58:31 +0000 http://creativechai.com/?p=293#comment-155 Hi Walter, I agree, it's amazing how much we can block out with a clogged up mind. Thank you for reading and commenting. Hi Walter,

I agree, it’s amazing how much we can block out with a clogged up mind. Thank you for reading and commenting.

]]> By: Walter http://creativechai.com/the-world-in-all-its-brilliance/comment-page-1#comment-154 Walter Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:39:32 +0000 http://creativechai.com/?p=293#comment-154 It is rare indeed to see the beauty of everything. Oftentimes, our mind are so clogged that it blinds us in seeing the majesty before us. Perhaps in those seldom moments, when our mind enters a temporary halt, that we see clearly. :-) It is rare indeed to see the beauty of everything. Oftentimes, our mind are so clogged that it blinds us in seeing the majesty before us. Perhaps in those seldom moments, when our mind enters a temporary halt, that we see clearly. :-)

]]> By: Dave Rowley http://creativechai.com/the-world-in-all-its-brilliance/comment-page-1#comment-153 Dave Rowley Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:16:53 +0000 http://creativechai.com/?p=293#comment-153 Hi Pearl, Yeah, it is like the brain slowing down and taking a picture. The few times this sort of thing has happened for me it's like a moment has been seared into my memory. How to hold this kind of thing without being overwhelmed is a really interesting problem isn't it? Hi Michelle, I love that rich description of your Saturday morning--I agree about the 'full sensory picture'. I guess it's like learning styles, where we each have different ways of processing information, some favour visual or auditory or kinesthetic. Thank you both for the thoughtful comments! Hi Pearl,

Yeah, it is like the brain slowing down and taking a picture. The few times this sort of thing has happened for me it’s like a moment has been seared into my memory.

How to hold this kind of thing without being overwhelmed is a really interesting problem isn’t it?

Hi Michelle,

I love that rich description of your Saturday morning–I agree about the ‘full sensory picture’.

I guess it’s like learning styles, where we each have different ways of processing information, some favour visual or auditory or kinesthetic.

Thank you both for the thoughtful comments!

]]> By: Michelle http://creativechai.com/the-world-in-all-its-brilliance/comment-page-1#comment-152 Michelle Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:39:59 +0000 http://creativechai.com/?p=293#comment-152 I agree with Pearl -- great post! I also love her "slow down and take a picture" analogy. That's exactly it. For me, it's not always visual, but a full sensory picture. I think that's what you described, Dave, the seeing that comes from inside -- the way the interplay of everything I'm sensing makes me feel. By way of example, my last moment like this was Saturday morning. I woke up to the sounds of my pre-quarreling children exuberantly describing in great detail which character they would be playing in their pretend world. My husband was still asleep and I could hear his rhythmic breathing. I heard the furnace kick on and there was a sudden surge of physical warmth to complement the emotional warmth that I was already feeling as I recognized that my whole world -- present and future -- was right there under our roof in a few square feet of space. *Click* snapshot.. I agree with Pearl — great post! I also love her “slow down and take a picture” analogy. That’s exactly it. For me, it’s not always visual, but a full sensory picture. I think that’s what you described, Dave, the seeing that comes from inside — the way the interplay of everything I’m sensing makes me feel. By way of example, my last moment like this was Saturday morning. I woke up to the sounds of my pre-quarreling children exuberantly describing in great detail which character they would be playing in their pretend world. My husband was still asleep and I could hear his rhythmic breathing. I heard the furnace kick on and there was a sudden surge of physical warmth to complement the emotional warmth that I was already feeling as I recognized that my whole world — present and future — was right there under our roof in a few square feet of space. *Click* snapshot..

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