We must, therefore, find our community of those who support our art. Those who do not support our art cannot be in our lives. We do not do this work only once. After I made my career change and felt established in a new life, I thought that difficult work was finished and life would get easier. I was wrong.
Life is difficult.
As our consciousness grows and as we evolve, life hands us new challenges and new choices to make for how we will face those challenges. We come to realize that life is a process of continual change and emergence and that we know ourselves only when we surrender ourselves to the void. Healthy people do so willingly whenever they feel they are losing their sense of integrity and wholeness. If he or she is able to transcend fear, to act out of courage, the whole of its group will benefit and each one, in his or her own life, will be suddenly more courageous, though they may not see how or why. The knowledge and acceptance of our eventual death is an ally in this process.