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artmonastery

  1. RT @hokaisobol: Laurie Anderson's commencement speech on art, science and space - Boing Boing awe.sm/5ucvd
  2. Looks fantastic! “@aeaiaa: Illuminated: The Art of Sacred Books @rubinmuseum in NYC thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/… cc/ @artmonastery
  3. Join our campaign to support artmaking this summer! awe.sm/5v3DK
  4. "Extrovertive mystical experience…looks outward to the world through the physical senses and finds unity" Psych Today awe.sm/5s7Dk
  5. Thomas Metzinger: the brain with its own processes is incapable of fully understanding itself; it's in “a special form of darkness” #vigils
  6. William James said of spiritual experience: "By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots" = open up by whatever means necessary
  7. “Growth is directly proportional to the amount of discomfort you can withstand.” -Anne Bogart awe.sm/5uQxV
  8. neuroscience: "spiritual thoughts…& sensations may not be so much beyond language as before language" awe.sm/5s6uV
  9. Watch Neil Gaiman's inspiring commencement speech about succeeding in the arts awe.sm/5s6gG
  10. Every human being is an artist. -Joseph Beuys
  11. True contemplation always overflows into creation—it becomes a creative act. –Beverly Lanzetta, Radical Wisdom
  12. Art Monastery aspires to make dirt. Rich fertile soil for the creative spirit to take root. John Jeavons shows the way. awe.sm/5rrQg
  13. More about spirit than art, but a riveting question: Is atheism a path to honor God? "Giving Up a Too-Small God" awe.sm/5rq3s
  14. 'Drawing the human figure is not an end in itself, but serves the study of man' —Medievalist art historian, Wilhelm Pinders (1878-1947)
  15. Art Monastery featured on MELODIKA.net - awe.sm/5rL9v
  16. Things are looking up! Alpert Medical School now has a concentration in Contemplative Studies. awe.sm/5rIwh
  17. Groundbreaking filmmaker David Lynch discusses his use of meditation for his creativity. awe.sm/5rIht
  18. What is going on in your brain during musical improv? Charles Limb's TEDtalk: awe.sm/5rIet
  19. Announcing opportunities for VISUAL ARTISTS, this fall at Art Monastery Italia: awe.sm/5t8mD