Why does an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Why does it give us pleasure? Because…a way of looking at the world implies a certain relationship with the world…the work need not be optimistic to achieve this; indeed, its subject may be tragic. For it is not the subject…
For years, I tried to conform to traditional expectations, struggling to fit into boxes that were never meant for me. An inner vision—one that speaks from the soul—can’t be confined or forced into someone else’s mold. But I didn’t trust my path. I doubted myself and felt unworthy of the calling that tugged at my…
“Most of us typically associate metaphor with the flowery language that poets use or with things that are made up: ‘That’s just a metaphor.’ In other words, we typically treat metaphors as outside of ourselves, when in fact they are the deep, sensory, intuitive language of the feeling center of our brain. To say that…
Consciously or not, metaphor is how we learn, grow, and heal. Metaphor, the language of the right hemisphere, is the first language we learn as babies… feeling our way in the world. But metaphor is much more than that. Metaphor is how we receive higher knowing… it’s how Spirit, the Divine, higher consciousness (or whatever…
During the final hearing for my Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Chicago, my advisor, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi pulled me aside and whispered to me: “NEVER use the word heart in a job talk.” My Ph.D. dissertation was on how adults learn in everyday life and I’d mentioned the heart too many times. Mihaly could tell…
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