Quite often you can agonize over a painting’s meaning, either directly or through the use of metaphor. However, with this sculpture by Albert György, a Romanian-born sculptor, who resides in …

Revisiting the Swiss master's brilliantly disturbing music-related artwork

I once had a disturbed young man come to a meditation class I was teaching in Edinburgh. As we’d gathered and during the meditation instruction I’d noticed that he was unusually intense and that he had noticeably poor personal hygiene, but in most ways he seemed like a fairly typical young man. In the discussion...

Dark Street, 1933, Nikolai Sinezouboff. Russian (1891 - 1956)

At some point in your life, you will experience the 'Dark Night of the Soul' where it seems that everything that can possibly go wrong, will go wrong. What many people fail to realize is that this is a true blessing.

Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start there.

Caroline Myss speaks about our relationship to pain and our confusion over why bad things happen to people who haven’t done anything wrong.

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