Re-Introduction

Hello everyone, my government name is Lionel, but for the purpose of this site you can call me Rey, it's nice to meet you. :)

You may have noticed that before this blog was about poetry; and it still is. The difference is that now it will be expanded to include my spiritual journey. I believe life is a work of art, and art is a work of life. What I mean by that is that is that we're living in art everyday, life, everything that happens to us, things go wrong, things go well, people die, people live, people leave, we get sick, we get better, we love, we hate.  These things are just experiences, they come and they go, and how we handle them, how deeply we let them go and carve us and let us see the truth is how beautiful our art will be. These events are beyond our control, these are done by the hands of God, science, spirituality, fate, coincidence, the macrocosm, whatever you want to call it. This is the primary art, I believe.
Then there's art as a work of life, this is within our control. Being good mothers, fathers, innovating, creating, making a movie, painting, designing a building or whatever it is that you do. This is the secondary art, I believe. The trick is when both arts stream seamlessly, I think that's when we're in bliss, acceptance of whatever it is that arises and acting in complete truth.  Heavy stuff, but there's no rush we have forever and a day lol.

This realization came about for me how it came about for many of us, through pain and suffering.  I have recently lost something; something very dear and important to me, even though I didn't treat is as such. I acted like a spoiled child with a toy he didn't want until somebody else picked it up.  Well it turned out that toy was pretty special to me, it understood me, it was what I based myself upon, it was where I placed my self worth, it was a part of "me". But now that person is gone and happy with someone else.  Which is fine, life is not about me but about everything within it, and the perception of myself is exactly that, a misjudged thing within it.  It's my job to use that pain and burn through me Ego, easier said than done.

When you lose something like that, you can't breathe, you can't eat, you can't really do anything, you don't even know who's breathing. You've lost your sense of self, complete terror. but they say that's the path to enlightenment so I guess I'm going in the right direction...

Anyway, everything in this life is a blessing. It's not what happens to a person, but what that person does with it. I really believe that and I really hope you guys enjoy this blog. Stay tuned!

-Rey