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Now on day 7, here’s another painting I created in watercolor and adjusted the look of it with filters.
These two hearts don’t beat as one.
They are two individual, healthy, thriving and separate hearts.
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” -Joseph Campbell
Quote from Rumi on a Brush Dance card designed by Michael Green, translation by Coleman Barks.
Various popular marketers I’ve been studying suggest you get a blank sheet of paper and draw two circles that overlap. Inside one circle write what you love to do. And in the other circle write what you think the world needs. The golden answers are in the section where the circles overlap.
I think there’s one other key question to ask that belongs in this method: what where you want to offer help.
Draw a third circle and write in it what you feel passion for improving in the world. Then look at where the three circles overlap.
Don’t be too quick to disregard what you love because you don’t think the world needs it.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman
Inner Sun, watercolor and pencil by Mary Gow
It’s amazing that something from my childhood is sorta “trending” now, at least as a term. Not literally.
I created this blog to nurture your creativity with my servings of soul food. I grew up helping my parents serve REAL soul food!
One major takeaway today from Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday was a Joseph Campbell quote:
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” – Joseph Campbell
This quote is from: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living. It comes out of a workshop at the Esalen Institute celebrating the scholar’s eightieth birthday.
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