"A voice in me said, You have to rise to the occasion or the best in you will die. We always have that voice; we just have to make a choice to listen to it. We all have it; that's God's given light. It's just whether you have the courage to step into your destiny."
"It seems that in connecting to what is true within myself, I help other people to connect. Making genuine connection lies at the beginning of building a real community."
- Lily Yeh, artist
Lily, a genius of the Art of inspiration
I don't often talk about other people whom I admire. As y'all know I read lots. I get off on it. Because of it I learn. When I provide quotes like the ones above, I have a reason which relates back to ME. After all, this is all about MY JOURNEY. So the quotations I put at the beginning of BLOG thingie are very special to me, none more than the two quotes above from Lily Yeh. In 1986, Lily Yeh was asked by the dancer and educator Arthur Hall to create a park in an abandoned lot next to his building in North Philadelphia. With a small grant, a few shovels, and little else, Lily invited children and adults in this ravaged inner city neighborhood to join her in clearing the rubble-filled lot. They then transformed the lot into an art park with brilliant mosaics and sculpted trees, creating an oasis of safety and peace.
The park blossomed into The Village of Arts and Humanities, a community-based art organization that Lily co-founded in 1989. Lily, neighborhood residents, and staff have transformed more than 120 abandoned lots into gardens and parks. They also have renovated abandoned homes, and created educational programs, art workshops, after-school programs, a youth theater, and joyful community celebrations. Today, the Village of Arts and Humanities serves thousands of low-income people every year.
The park blossomed into The Village of Arts and Humanities, a community-based art organization that Lily co-founded in 1989. Lily, neighborhood residents, and staff have transformed more than 120 abandoned lots into gardens and parks. They also have renovated abandoned homes, and created educational programs, art workshops, after-school programs, a youth theater, and joyful community celebrations. Today, the Village of Arts and Humanities serves thousands of low-income people every year.
The ART is within
Lily Yeh is a dot, the same as every other 7 billion of us. But she found herself, her MSOT, in her late forties and since then she has blossomed along with the thousands of other dots she has brought into her life. She rebuilds lives as well as old vacant lots and uses her brilliant art skills to not only make a better world to live in, but to help build other people's lives. Although known for her Art and cultural gifts to all countries of the world, more particularly Third World countries, it is her words that provide the inspiration she harnesses within. If you carefully read the quotations above you will understand why she is soooo important to my Journey. Lily talks about all of the vital components I keep going on about, more particularly "the voice" which is her MSOT. She says we all have that voice within, as we do. And then she talks of CHOICE which I have BLOG thingied about recently. The CHOICE to listen to the voice in your head. Lily says we all have that voice, which we do, that it is God's light in every one of us, which it is. Lily also says that we must have the courage to STEP into our DESTINY. And then Lily talks about "connecting to what is true within myself" and by doing that she is connecting to others. Hmmm...... All sounds very familiar to the Journey I am on, huh? And it is a Journey that every single dot on this planet should be on. It's all about CONNECTING THE DOTS......
There is a work of art IN YOU
The last few BLOG thingies I have been talking about the MIND and our CHOICE OF THOUGHTS. Our thoughts will guide us along our Journey. As I have said many times our MIND is Universal, a ONE MIND, with thoughts for every single one of us. These thoughts will guide our acts, the things we do in our lives. So, as Lily says, if we listen to the voices in our head, which is our MIND, which is our MSOT, and which is OUR CHOICE, then we will STEP toward our DESTIN-EE, if we have the courage. Oh.........
Yep, the courage is all part of the package. The courage will come once you have made the right CHOICES. The courage is within you and is one of the GIFTS I told you MSOT will give you when you answer the door. It should be starting to sink in. It should be helping you to answer the question you should be asking by now:
Am I ready to begin my own Journey ???????
Hmmmmm............
I wonder.................
Have you found your work of Art yet ???????
Yep, the courage is all part of the package. The courage will come once you have made the right CHOICES. The courage is within you and is one of the GIFTS I told you MSOT will give you when you answer the door. It should be starting to sink in. It should be helping you to answer the question you should be asking by now:
Am I ready to begin my own Journey ???????
Hmmmmm............
I wonder.................
Have you found your work of Art yet ???????
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