Give gifts. That's the game.
The more you give the more you become the artist you seek to be.
Your songs, your works of art, your paintings, and your pamphlets are gifts.
Gift-giving is real commerce, given that the gift is complete work.


When creating complete work you give and you get at the same time.
When complete work finds its host it appears effortlessly. The host simply steps aside. The host feels as if he has not touched the work, simply brought it to the world. The host steps aside and conceives the gift. The receiver steps aside and consumes the gift. There is no commerce. And that is real commerce.
As gifts are received and consumed alone they need no advocate. Complete work always finds its way to where it is needed. Real artists perhaps call that helping hands.


It is important to understand that selfish artists will never touch complete work. Instead of gift giving they participate in hole-filling. The work is about them and their story. From their art, they hope to get something. By that the gift eludes them and they grow bitter making art. Perhaps what they make is not art at all.

The intention behind your creation matters. Simply give your gift to god, and choose a life of service. Your art can be your gift. Serve the world instead of filling holes. The only spiritual discipline you need is gift-giving.

Real artists give gifts. They have come to heal parts of themselves that make them available to real creation. Real creation is complete creation, the healing arts. 

Gifts don't leave the world. They are recognized as gifts by everyone, hence they are cherished. 
Real art is. God is. And real commerce is gift-giving.

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