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When you look at a beautiful painting, it\u2019s amazing. When you see any object d\u2019art<\/em> it\u2019s easy to get lost in the form, without appreciating the space out of which it emerges. In the case of a painting, do we ever appreciate the canvas itself, the very thing that makes it all possible? You can\u2019t have a mountain that\u2019s all mountain and no valley. So how can you have a life consumed with all form? Thoughts, errands, phone calls, going here and there, working, doing, being, thinking, and on and on – those are objects in consciousness. Is your life an \u201call-wave\u201d kind of life, only crest and no trough, all form with no consideration for formlessness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you broke down the chemical matter that is your body and condensed it, it would fit on the head of a pin. You’re mostly space and emptiness. If you look up on a clear night, mostly all you see is blackness. The blackness is what allows the stars to shine. It\u2019s the backdrop that\u2019s more remarkable, don\u2019t you think? And so it is with us. What allows you to exist is much more powerful that existing, per se.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The universe is primarily space, which in and of itself is something<\/em>. We all know we are not just cells and molecules, flesh and bones, yet it seems all that there is to the unsuspecting. Most people\u2019s view of the world is all mountain and no valley, or all valley and no mountain, and they get trapped in the comings and goings of form. Very few take themselves out of the picture altogether and see the canvas\u2019s remarkable truth. It\u2019s not form that makes one\u2019s life, it\u2019s formlessness that allows<\/em> it all. Matter is such a fractional part of the world, and space is overwhelmingly \u201cbigger.\u201d Shouldn\u2019t that be something to consider?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday, July 17, 2023 When you look at a beautiful painting, it\u2019s amazing. When you see any object d\u2019art it\u2019s easy to get lost in the form, without appreciating the space out of which it emerges. In the case of a painting, do we ever appreciate the canvas itself, the very thing that makes it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t