The Art Of Pawel Kuczynski

Six Words of Advice from Tilopa Don't recall. Don't imagine. Don't think. Don't examine. Don't control. Rest. This advice consists of only six words in Tibetan. The above translation was developed to capture its brevity and directness. You might prefer this translation Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

The poet Robert Hass cautioned in his poem “After Goethe”: “The birds are silent in the woods./Just wait: Soon enough/You will be quiet too.”

It is the function of the artist to evoke the experience of surprised recognition: to show the viewer what he knows but does not know that he knows.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Like tearing open a bud to see what the flower will be like.’ –D.H. Lawrence

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, “So what.” That’s one of my favorite things to say. “So what.” My mother didn’t love me. So what. My husband won’t ball me. So what. I’m a success but I’m still alone. So what. I don’t know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick." ----Andy Warhol