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@nofaithvisuals
Yesterday I found a little sheet of paper with the transcription of a video ( I guess it was by the Shool of Life, but I am not sure...) and well... I should make a poster of it. "Beneath the surface there is a lot of sadness and requet that we can't express for fear of seeming weird or a looser. One thing art can do is reassure us of the normality of pain, it can be sad with and for us. Some of the world's great works of art have been loved for their capacity to make the pain that's inside all of us more pubblicly visible and available. Like putting on a sad piece of music, somber works of ant don't have to depress us. Rather they can give us the welcome feeling that pain is part of the human condition. Art fights the false optimism of commercial society, it's there to remind us with dignity that every good life has extraordinary amounts of confusion, suffering, loneliness and distress within it and therefore we should never aggravate sadness by feeling freakish simply for experiencing it quite a lot."
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@ilannnnnnnnkatin
A good exercise. Find that once one allows for these feelings to flow one moves with more ease to other emotions. Feels less like an bath, and more like a shower.
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@nofaithvisuals
Yes… we should aim to this. Not get stuck forever in bad feelings… but let them be and eventually, as you suggest, let them flow.
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