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What makes an artist successful?

What makes an artist successful?
Experience, maturity?
The ability to see what others miss?
The ability to experience different states of consciousness?
To dive into the depths of the soul, just to come out more whole?
The ability to attune ones mind to the vastness of the universe?
The ability to open ones heart repeatedly?
 
Having moved past grief, past attachments,
past identifications with all kinds of different people, places, personalities...
Having lost everything that could give one’s life meaning,
just to discover there is one thing that can never be taken away.
And that thing will always continue to create,
burning with the fire of desire,
and the energy of love.
Powered through a will that renews itself over and over...
As the mind continues to discover
and the heart continues to beat...
Maybe those are the things that creates a true artist.
 
Those things of the soul, of the spirit,
that no amount of material loss could ever erase
or material gain could ever truly reflect.
A true artist, remains an artist, whatever she does, wherever she is.
Blocked or open,
she will always find a way
to reconnect to that which causes her to create,
because it provides breath to her soul
and life to her heart.
Her life itself becomes her art.
Perhaps it is that that makes an artist successful.

Written on May 11th, 2016

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