The Adventures of a Starving Artist

A man with no fear is a man without courage. The beautiful and the meaning to life aren’t hidden within the pleasant, but in the places that we would rather not look or visit. Just as we can only be brave whenever we are scared, an adventure is only an adventure when there are places on the map unknown to us. The most important moments in our lives are during the hours which fear consumes our every emotion, and the first step of faith is always in letting go of what we grip so tight. The greatest adventure is within all that we fear and within the moments when life asks us to open up to become honestly vulnerable. 

Many times people walk away from the path they are supposed to tread, accepting a map passed on by another, rather than drawing this map with their own conviction and belief. A map of life where the mountains and valleys are already conveniently marked on the paper along with the landmarks for which we are to go see eventually amongst a sea of people whom also willingly accepted the false sense of security that the map gives. When we reject the system that society demands us to follow for our genuine passion, we are giving ourselves a blank parchment of paper and a journey of a lifetime. A journey for which the valleys and painful lows may be pain greater than we have experienced before, but alone will be standing at the peak when we see the beauties of this world that no map can navigate us to. Only when we experience the treacheries of a journey of becoming lost in the woods, left out cold, and starving, do we truly understand the beauties of life. 

 As humans, there are many things that we have no control over; however, creating a map of our own is an obligation to the World. I say that it is an obligation, for how you live your life influences courage and inspires a fire in others to live with the same vigor. Maps are essentially laid out by those whom have gone a certain path previously, and simply helps guide another to reach a point that they arrived at. On your map leave crumb trails for the brave souls whom also wandered off the path, create footsteps of places we can go with patience and perseverance, and leave remains of fires in the woods so others can retrace how you treaded a mountain that kiss the clouds and navigated themselves through the lowest of valleys that touch Hell without the promises of anything. 

A blank piece of parchment is not something to fear, but something so incredibly refreshing, as we are no longer obligated to follow the course that has been laid by another, but to live life on our own terms. Don’t fear the blank parchment, the blank canvas, or the open road; it’s all an adventure.

Namaste, Forrest Curran

Excerpts from: Purple Buddha Project: The Purple Book of Self-Love

Available at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/purple-buddha-project-the-purple-book-of-self-love–2/x/11116999#/story

The Sacrifice

Your willingness to take risks and chances for happiness is vastly interrelated to the relationship that you have with yourself. It’s natural to question what sound, what voice, what path, or what the meaning to life is; but the answer can all be found in your heartbeat. To listen to your heart beating rather than the many noises and clamors of the World, only when you love yourself are you able to hear this beating sound clearly and unmistakably. In the twists and turns that make up a winding road that seems to never end, your path lies in what you fear the most. Only with self-love does one find the belief to be able to understand themselves that the heartbeat is the journey despite the weight of fear and everything that they know lies ahead. 

 To agree to the journey is to agree to the pain and the storms that come with it. The universe and the law of attraction speaks a language that knows no words, it only understands your intent through sacrifice and what you are willing to give up. The law of attraction is synonymous to the law of sacrifice, in which you get in return what you are decisively choose to give up. The universe in all Her infinity beauty generously opens up gates that you had no idea existed when you close others, but She requires you to walk through the gates solely on your own will and strength, with the other doors that you have left behind often times being forever locked and inaccessible. When you close one door, another opens; that is how the universe works and through sacrifice we are given the keys to the next door in life.

Sacrifice is a terribly difficult thing to do, of which you will be asked to do many times along your path. Only with genuine love will you be able to make these sacrifices because often times you will simply want to refuse the sacrifices that the universe asks of you to make. Sacrifice can be as simple as the choice between a goodnight’s sleep or a night of the candle wick being burnt, and can be as complex as the choice to be with the person you love or to do the thing that you love. Sacrifice in itself is a decision made out of love and is the bee to the flower that gives life passion. Never with entire certainty do we know if the seed will come to fruition, but through the law of attraction and the law of sacrifice we call upon the rain and the sun to give life to what began solely in the mind to manifest itself into reality. 

 Namaste, 

Forrest Curran 

Excerpts from The Purple Buddha Project: The Purple Book of Self-Love

Available through our crowdfunding campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/purple-buddha-project-the-purple-book-of-self-love–2/x/11116999#/story

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