Extraordinary people inspire empathy. Intuition brings our attention to what astonishes us first, then what distinguishes an extraordinary individual from everyone else. By most merits, that's how we often interpret it. Yet when we look beyond all bedazzlement, something deeper calls us to the extraordinary.
Art is a special form of communication. Art compels us to heed that calling, to explore with a sense of wonder and seek to understand. We identify our own aspirations in relation to the extraordinary, whether we strive to live them in modesty or overtly as exemplars in our ordinary lives.
In that sense, extraordinary feats, works, people and places elicit deep empathy from their presence and actions. A trick for making your own life extraordinary?
Whenever you encounter the extraordinary, use the encounter as a reminder for who you are. Remember to look into yourself, as there's more to the ordinary found within that can inspire others us to bridge the gap between remarkable and mundane.
By doing so, chances are you'll find something about yourself worth cultivating and sharing as well. Your wisdom for discerning the extraordinary originates from bridging life's experience with inward learning.
When living life fully and honestly, even in making your own mistakes, your life becomes too extraordinary for anyone to reproduce. That's perfection for heartful humans, an irreplaceable art of living.
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The Detroit Institute of the Arts has an exhibit on ordinary people by extraordinary artists. Check it out, the typecast for the exhibit sparked the above thought. Whomever the graphic artist was has my appreciation--I hadn't parsed "extra" and "ordinary" until looking at the pamphlet for the exhibition.
As displayed, it made me think (ineloquently): "what if extraordinary people are remarkable because they make something MORE ordinary, more identifiable for those who encounter them?" thus, it makes us think of the more ordinary and inspires us to bridge the gap between remarkable and mundane.
"To me, perfection is honesty--live your life as honestly as possible, even your mistakes. That's perfection."
- Danny Perez (paraphrased?)
"Study you. After you've studied everything in the world, I want you to study you." -Stuart Mitchell (transient man in Lansing, MI)
Editing note:
I initially wrote: "Your wisdom for discerning the extraordinary originates from bridging life with learning." and realized I was pulling nice sounding words from thin air without really thinking about what it means. Still sounds like a nice line, but it doesn't really register.
Art is a special form of communication. Art compels us to heed that calling, to explore with a sense of wonder and seek to understand. We identify our own aspirations in relation to the extraordinary, whether we strive to live them in modesty or overtly as exemplars in our ordinary lives.
In that sense, extraordinary feats, works, people and places elicit deep empathy from their presence and actions. A trick for making your own life extraordinary?
Whenever you encounter the extraordinary, use the encounter as a reminder for who you are. Remember to look into yourself, as there's more to the ordinary found within that can inspire others us to bridge the gap between remarkable and mundane.
By doing so, chances are you'll find something about yourself worth cultivating and sharing as well. Your wisdom for discerning the extraordinary originates from bridging life's experience with inward learning.
When living life fully and honestly, even in making your own mistakes, your life becomes too extraordinary for anyone to reproduce. That's perfection for heartful humans, an irreplaceable art of living.
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| Photo credit to Margaret __ in Ann Arbor, MI |
. . .
The Detroit Institute of the Arts has an exhibit on ordinary people by extraordinary artists. Check it out, the typecast for the exhibit sparked the above thought. Whomever the graphic artist was has my appreciation--I hadn't parsed "extra" and "ordinary" until looking at the pamphlet for the exhibition.
As displayed, it made me think (ineloquently): "what if extraordinary people are remarkable because they make something MORE ordinary, more identifiable for those who encounter them?" thus, it makes us think of the more ordinary and inspires us to bridge the gap between remarkable and mundane.
"To me, perfection is honesty--live your life as honestly as possible, even your mistakes. That's perfection."
- Danny Perez (paraphrased?)
"Study you. After you've studied everything in the world, I want you to study you." -Stuart Mitchell (transient man in Lansing, MI)
Editing note:
I initially wrote: "Your wisdom for discerning the extraordinary originates from bridging life with learning." and realized I was pulling nice sounding words from thin air without really thinking about what it means. Still sounds like a nice line, but it doesn't really register.
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