What Do I Want Nowadays?
I feel strange. I sit down to the brush and the paints. I let myself be guided by my sense of beauty alone and do not know what I am doing until I feel that it is done.
Living house on the water
This is what the words say:
All I want is
To play in the water
To send light fingers into the world
To give water, to be practical
To give heartfelt light
To fertilize
To enable climbing
To keep it cool
To give depth
To hold the happiness as it bubbles
To feed the soul
To look in
To be like ancient wisdom
To be like normal life.
Maybe this does not belong directly to healing my pain but I don’t think so. I am in a process. I am listening to everything that shows up. I never know what will turn out to be meaningful. I never know where clues will be found. I don’t understand the wisdom of intuition, but I can listen to it and do what I understand needs to be done. I am learning to trust it more and more. What an adventure! I feel so thankful and lucky.
I used to be a graphic designer and an illustrator. I became involved with the Chan Meditation Center and studied meditation and Buddhist knowledge with the late Master Sheng-yen from Taiwan. For twelve years I was in a process of deepening my meditation. I had many more experiences and insights and my life changed. After having illustrated more than 40 children’s books and writing two of them, I left this career too and went to New York University to study art therapy.
You can see more about Giora’s work on his blog and website
