Be Real With Your Feelings
In thinking about serenity and realizing its great value, we would love to be serene all the time. But this is not possible in the world in which we live. In the totality of our lives we will experience a wide range of human emotions, not all of them the ones we would choose for ourselves if we could have total control over our feelings.
So now we have a choice. We can acknowledge our emotional reality at any given moment and from there work our way to true serenity. Or we can deny our true feelings. We may deny our insecurities, anxieties, worries, frustrations, disappointments, etc., and think that because we want to be serene, these feelings do not exist. Let us state clearly: Only by being in touch with your feelings will you be able to truly experience serenity.
Love Yehuda Lave
In thinking about serenity and realizing its great value, we would love to be serene all the time. But this is not possible in the world in which we live. In the totality of our lives we will experience a wide range of human emotions, not all of them the ones we would choose for ourselves if we could have total control over our feelings.
So now we have a choice. We can acknowledge our emotional reality at any given moment and from there work our way to true serenity. Or we can deny our true feelings. We may deny our insecurities, anxieties, worries, frustrations, disappointments, etc., and think that because we want to be serene, these feelings do not exist. Let us state clearly: Only by being in touch with your feelings will you be able to truly experience serenity.
Love Yehuda Lave
Hyman Bloom's Studio – Paintings and Drawings (1940-2005) By: Richard McBee Published: September 13th, 2013 , oil on canvas by Hyman Bloom.
"Hyman Bloom: Paintings and Drawings (1940 – 2005)," currently at White Box (the cutting edge international art space on Broome Street), is a rare opportunity to observe the creative process of one of the most important practitioners of 20th century Jewish Art in America. Totally dominating the pristine gallery space are 18 large oil paintings of rabbis each holding a large Torah scroll. It is as if the artist invited you into the most private recesses of his studio (which in reality he never would permit), put his arm around you and explained, "this is exactly how an artist makes paintings about being a modern Jew." Considering the subject of the paintings and the nature of the venue, this is a shocking and gusty show. Jew with Torah (#2) (1990s), oil on canvas by Hyman Bloom. Courtesy White Box and Estate of Hyman Bloom. Jew with Torah (#2) (1990s), oil on canvas by Hyman Bloom. Courtesy White Box and Estate of Hyman Bloom. Bloom, who passed away in 2009 at the age of 96, was a highly respected and yet tragically under-valued star of the mid-century avant-garde. Born in Latvia in 1913, his traditional cheder education quickly fell by the wayside upon immigration to the United States and settlement in Boston in 1920.
Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/sections/arts/hyman-blooms-studio-paintings-and-drawings-1940-2005/2013/09/13/0/
Absolutely beautiful pictures! There are so many wonderful things in this world that God has given us. It is almost like we have blinders on. We look....but we do not truly "see". We take so many things for granted, until they are taken away from us.
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