Art should not be measured by trends, popularity, or market value. True art isn't about objects, masterpieces, or even the artist. These things are distractions from what truly matters: you. Art should be about your perspective on life, your feelings about being alive, and the balance of harmony and chaos that you perceive.

Are you able to find two minutes in your day to remain silent and still?
Remaining available to the sensations, the thoughts, feeling the breath, the aliveness. Simply being with whatever arises in the present moment. Letting go of the resistance, the impulse to escape into the past or the future, the hopes, the fears, the regrets — all those endless narratives that constitute what we call our lives.

One of the most important things to explore is that, contrary to our most basic beliefs, reality isn’t made up of distinct parts—it’s not truly divided into people, objects, situations, things to acquire, or things to avoid.

Reality is not something that can be grasped or held within any definition or frame of reference. It’s a boundless, ever-shifting flow, constantly transforming into something new while always remaining the same in essence.

When I first came across the photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope as a teenager, I was completely mesmerized. For weeks, perhaps even months, I could look at nothing else. Those images altered my perception of the world in a way that still affects me today.

The world is not a space to be conquered,
But a place where you must make yourself spacious.
For when you're full of drama and self-importance,
The true world is pushed aside, barely visible, a mere shadow of itself.

Be still, my friend, in the eye of the storm. Release the striving, the reaching, the need to become.

Return to what you were before the first thought, before the world took shape in your imagination—what you have always been.