You cannot

You cannot paint with your eyes held tight

open up your eyes child,

to see the light, be dark

must not paint so mild.




Quote from one of my favorite authors Paulo Coelho.

The way of the tiger

A man was walking through a forest when he saw a crippled fox. ‘I wonder how it manages to feed itself,’ he thought. At that moment, a tiger approached, carrying its prey in its mouth. The tiger ate its fill and left what remained for the fox.‘If God helps the fox, he will help me too,’ the man thought. He went back home, shut himself up in his house and waited for the Heavens to bring him food.Nothing happened. Just when he was becoming too weak to go out and work, an angel appeared.‘Why did you decide to imitate the crippled fox?’ asked the angel. ‘Get out of bed, pick up your tools and follow the way of the tiger!’


Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!(Ballad of Reading Jail, 1898)