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The
Purpose of Experience
“we are all painters living in the gallery of the
paintings we have already done, but which
we have not yet set entirely aside,
because we
have not yet “got them right”, and obtained
the
internal satisfaction which comes from the
feeling
of unfoldment or expansion of some part of
our life.”
From
Natural Theosophy By Ernest Egerton
Wood
Posted
In this extract from “Natural Theosophy”
Ernest Egerton Wood likens our aspirations and
ambitions in life to paintings with which an artist will never be satisfied
until he reaches perfection.
“I remember to have heard an interesting
story about a painter, which happens to illustrate the purpose of all
experience. When he was still young he went one day to a
woodland with his teacher, arid when asked what he would paint indicated
a certain tree. “But”, said the elder, “you have painted that tree twenty times
already; are you not tired of it?”. “No”, said the
young man, “I have not got it right yet’.’ When he did “get it right” he would
not want to paint it any more. What it could teach him he would have absorbed,
and he would now become interested in something else, which would be
interesting because it would awaken some part of his life which had not yet
awakened. What a bore when a person persists in repeating to us the same joke
or story or experience; however good it may have seemed when we first heard it!
Thus we are all painters living in the
gallery of the paintings we have already done, but which we have not yet set
entirely aside, because we have not yet “got them right”, and obtained the
internal satisfaction which comes from the feeling of unfoldment or expansion
of some part of our life.”
Natural Theosophy By Ernest Egerton Wood
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