🌹🖤Any tendency or talent...

🌹🖤Any tendency or talent that produces isolation, 

any form of self-identification,

however stimulating it may be, 

it distorts the expression of sensitivity and creates insensitivity.

Sensitivity is dulled when emphasis is placed on 'me' and 'mine' 

- I paint, 

I write, 

I invent.

Only when we are aware of every movement of our thoughts and feelings in relationships with people, 

with things and with nature, 

the mind is open, 

flexible, 

unencumbered by self-protective needs and desires; 

and only then is there sensitivity to the ugly and the beautiful, 

unhindered by the self.

Sensitivity to beauty and ugliness does not come from attachment, 

it is born with love, 

when there are no self-created conflicts.

When we are poor inwardly we indulge in various forms of external display, 

with wealth, powers, 

possessions.

When our hearts are empty we collect things.

If we can afford it, 

they surround us with objects that we consider beautiful, 

and since we attach enormous importance to them,

we are responsible for much unhappiness and destruction.

The acquisitive spirit is not love of beauty, 

it arises from the desire for security and to be secure is to be insensitive... 

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