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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TERRITORY AND HIERARCHY, the fruits pf our labor,…
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
TERRITORY AND HIERARCHY
If we would pick up the phone and call six friends, one after the other, with the aim of hearing their voices and reassuring ourselves that they still love us, we're operating hierarchically.
What would Arnold Schwarzenegger do on a freaky day?He wouldn't phone his buddies; he'd head for the gym.
He wouldn't phone his buddies; he'd head for the gym. He
wouldn't care if the place was empty, if he didn't say a word
to a soul. He knows that working out, all by itself, is enough
to bring him back to his center.
If you're all alone on the planet, a hierarchical orientation makes no sense. There's no one to impress. So, if you'd still pursue that activity, congratulations. You're doing it territorially.
The sustenance they get comes from the act itself, not from the impression it makes on others
the fruits pf our labor
When Krishna instructed Arjuna that we have a right to our labor but not to the fruits of our labor, he was counseling the warrior to act territorially, not hierarchically
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause
The n there's the third way proffered by the Lord of Discipline, which is beyond both hierarchy and territory. That is to do the work and give it to Him. Do it as an offering to God.
Every breath we take, every heartbeat, every evolution of every cell comes from God and is sustained by God every second, just as every creation, invention, every bar of music or line of verse, every thought, vision, fantasy
To acknowledge that reality, to efface all ego, to let the work come through us and give it back freely to its source, that, in my opinion, is as true to reality as it gets
portrait of the artist
These spheres are trying to communicate with ours. When Blake said Eternity is in love with the creations of time, he was referring to those planes of pure potential, which are timeless, placeless, spaceless, but which long to bring their visions into being here, in this timebound, space-defined world
The artist is the servant of that intention, those angels, that Muse
The enemy of the artist is the small-time Ego, which begets Resistance, which is the dragon that guards the gold.
That's why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility.
They know they are not the source of the creations they bring into being. They only facilitate. They carry. They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesse s they serve.
the artist life
It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself.
You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite the Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter farther along its path back to God
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor
It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.
the supreme virtue
Someone once asked the Spartan king Leonida s to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed.
By confining our attention territorially to our own thoughts and actions—in other words, to the work and its demands—we cut the earth from beneath the bluepainted, shield-banging, spear-brandishing foe.