INTENSE CITY by luke storms

THE CURRENT OF THE RIVER OF LIFE MOVES US ON (excerpt)

By the use of the intellect we have created a world of ideas that does not actually exist.
The political world is a structure conceived and agreed to us by us but it is not a reality.
You have been conditioned to believe that this political world is in fact real.
With this conception it is believed that we have come into ownership of the world
And that we are responsible for creating it. And with this concept
We have placed ourselves in a condition of perpetual responsibility and reform.
But since we are not creating the world, since it was created before us and we are
Merely in it, and since we do not own it, our whole political concept is false.
It is untrue. It is not based on reality or true life.
An artist must see this and give up all reform and political considerations.
The world evolves due to changes that take place in individuals.
By individuals I mean all living things.
The world evolves due to a growing awareness in the lives of all things
and expressed in their actions.
The actions of all things are guided by a growing awareness of life.
We call it inspiration.
Living by inspiration is living. Living by intellect – by comparisons,
Calculations, schemes, concepts, ideas – is all a structure of pride
In which there is not beauty or happiness – no life.
The intellectual is in fact death.

Agnes Martin