If I have got rid of my ego, I won't be tweeting.
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Becoming egoless creates meta egos that are hard to get rid of. I suspect my optimisation journey has in fact created such meta egos/ meta sense of selves. The tweets are carvings on stones capturing the journey. Why do I carve, if I am not attached to it?
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Only ego can conceptualize itself and oppose it. It can split itself infinitely. It's a lost cause.
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Absolutely!
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Since you are here, I would like to know what is your take on this one. I see art as a selfish endeavor, but why would the artists share the art with the world than keeping it in their basement, if art is only a selfish endeavor?
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At first it is a selfish endeavor because one does it to establish a relationship with themselves. Art is way of communicating and relating, to self and to existence. Art is an ever-expanding circle: while the self remains in the center with each iteration, relationships expand.
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Relationship? Can you expand on that?
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Creativity is an intrinsic human phenomenon that finds varied expression through different forms/disciplines/activities of relating with existence. As Henry Miller said "Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant; in becoming an end it defeats itself".
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It's a myth that an artist works for themselves. They work through themselves, if they are a true artist. They become conduits of something, they serve something bigger. Selfish art is not art at all; it's a desperate attempt to establish an ego as the creator which it never is.
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