A Crappy Solution

The secret to great art is to figure out how to turn the manure within us into fertilizer to fuel the creative process before we are overcome by the stench and produce more crap.

A Godless Age

 If men and women truly had faith, all talking of God would cease.

A Humble Realization

True intellectual humility requires no proof of the existence of God. The gift of humility itself is evidence of a Transcendent Being superior to man.

A Courageous Cure

Both a sense of futility and an indifference to others spring from the same source.

The cure for this spiritual malaise is simple courage. 

A War for Liberation

"No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy."--Pablo Picasso

"The sublimity of man manifests itself not in the purity and nobility of his impulses and motives but in the alchemy of his soul, which transmutes meanness and savagery into things of beauty and into thoughts and visions which reach unto heaven....We cope best with the devil not by fighting him but by using him."--Eric Hoffer

Great art, with its power to sublimate the darkness within us, has always been a liberating force.

A Moot Point

It is an existential trap to ask what is the meaning of life. That is not the right question. 

The right way to ask the question is to consider why you ask the question in the first place.

In other words, the right question is how do I dispel my ignorance that will in itself solve this existential riddle?

To dispel our ignorance is to make the answer to the question of what is the meaning of life obvious and to render the question itself moot.

An Unrecognized Talent

One advantage to having no discernible talent is that an individual may be more open to exploring the true spiritual way of living as opposed to being lost in the pursuit of worldly success.