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Life Art: Teachings
These teachings are drawn from a deep communing with lived experience and texts of all kinds as a way to serve fellow human beings through the transformative good power of fully realizing the creative nature of existence and the love that we each inherently are. These teachings are for everyone!
The Life Art Movement, an art movement of our times, for the 21st and 22nd centuries and beyond:
life art (one useful definition) noun:
Life art is the conception that considers all of life and existence as art and that we as agents of that life and existence are co-creators of not only ourselves but the world of which we are a part. As such we are all life artists and life art.
life art (another useful definition) verb:
Life art is the channeling of the creative muse as Love into your everyday existence as an expression of the infinite, eternal now that we all share. It can become a sustained, ongoing even life-long practice of life and way of being like mindfulness if one finds that it resonates with one’s current understanding of their innermost core. Mindful Love in action is another way of thinking about life art in practice. The word Love is sometimes capitalized to bring attention to this foundational and sacred essence of life.
life art (yet another possible definition) verb: Life art is the channeling of the creative muse into your everyday existence.
The Vision
Love is who and what we all are at are very core. Learning is a way in which love breathes. Life art is a way of being that percolates the understanding of this and raises conscious awareness of this, our true nature, which is good, beautiful and whole at its core. Libraries help us explore, transform, grow and develop who it is we want to be in the world and are a unique gift to society. As such, they are critical conduits for cultivating understanding of oneself, others and the world at large and thus are perfectly synergistic for life art as it is arising in the present day, both individually and collectively.
About Jon Keppel
Jon Keppel is a life artist and librarian leading the life art movement including at libraries. Through a concerted effort to illuminate the true limitless potential of human beings as creative, Jon delivers presentations, guided meditations and writings about life art including at libraries to add to the life art movement as a whole. Jon wants to make sure it is clear that you know that you do not have to resonate with the term art or artist to make this work come alive. Being yourself is how this works. Creativity (which is referred to here as art and life art) is that which both spontaneously and intentionally unfolds in spacetime as a matter of fact meaning it is happening all the time by the nature of being alive. Through awareness of one’s own sovereignty and insight you also have the chance to consciously engage with the unfoldment. Life art offers a way of both understanding and practicing this but you could also just call this creative attention, attention or nothing at all. As wisdom has communicated it is not important what you call it but rather that you call It forth, the Way, the Light, the Love.
