Retracing The Masters

There is a need to analyze and re-assess what's going on in my life. What are the right questions that would align me to my purposes as a human being. To many re...repackaging, reinforce, replay, recount, reassure, or could be reject. 

Work even harder...FOCUS on....

God help me. 

This popularity thing, I don't want that to get on top of my head but I also need to be known publicly..the wider the better.

Think I'll be centering for awhile on meaning recording of genre scene. But before that I just made a coffee copy of Da Vinci's self-portrait (header). To experience that moment with a great painter. What's on his head while doing these....

a rekindle affair with watercolor.... truly submerge on this one that I didn't even glimpse on my Facebook page the whole day....also on my head was my fellow artist...the frustrations that they tried to hide...to struggle...to continually paint for the love of it. 

People will not understand. I hope they will....haven't they? 

FB Post....

Ayan nagkaroon tuloy ako ng Walang Wentang Tip of the day...yun pong mga Woodless pencils ay nababasag, kaya ingatan nyo na wag mahulog. :( wahhhhhhhhh !!! 
anyway, bukod sa mukha magandang praktis ang pag sketch ng Kamay lalo na ang palad, madaming nagaganap na mga kurba at linya sa kamay...DON'T JUST LOOK; TRAIN YOUR EYES TO SEE, what I mean is, REALLY SEE...wag mag assume ng linya...don't think ahead..just focus on the moment.... That's the secret of FOCUS.

♫ There are three ducklings that I saw... ♪ 
☺ 
Rich kid: What's your baon today?
Poor kid: "Kamote again.... :( 
Rich kid: Wow yummy! Sweet Poh-tah-toh :D
:D 

Fher

Confidence is Not Pride

Steve Jobs, w-i-p, watercolor...

Better accept the fact that you are being idolized and admired now for being a  good great visual artist....don't be bothered or feel guilty that you are getting praises and gaining respect from acquaintances, strangers, and mutual friends. 

Let's be clear on what are the differences of Humble Confidence and Insecure Pride...

Leaders have two seemingly-paradoxical postures they can lead from. The first is the paradox of insecure pride. The insecurity comes from a personal anxiety, a self-doubt that comes across as a deflated or detached leadership. It is feeling unsure about oneself and what you offer as a leader to others. Connected with this insecurity is pride, an inner desire to make oneself and one’s agenda heard in order to compensate for the insecurity. Pride often comes out externally through our mouths, while insecurity hides itself in the internal reaches of our hearts.
Insecure pride can manifest itself in all kinds of ways:

• Loudly and brashly sharing one’s opinions in conversations in order to feel significant or heard.

• Not inviting any input on decisions that affect multiple people; ignoring criticism or feedback, especially from peers.

• Offering unsolicited input and advice, especially to other leaders, then being personally hurt or offended if they don’t go with your idea.

• Choosing not to speak up around other leaders due to an insecure fear of being wrong or uncertain.

• Choosing not to speak up around other leaders due to a prideful smugness that says, “no one else here could understand my awesome ideas.”

• Storing up bitterness against those who don’t think like you do; speaking of them sarcastically or negatively when they’re not around.

• Often makes comparisons between themselves and other leaders.

• Knee-jerk reaction is self-preservation and defensiveness.

• Failure is not an option.

There is a healthier alternative paradox in leadership: the paradox of humble confidence. Humility comes from a realistic view of oneself in light of the grace given us in Christ. The word originates from the Latin “humus,” meaning “earth, dirt.” It is knowing and embracing the reality that we are dust. Connected with humility is a confidence in one’s vocational calling and identity. A confident leader finds their identity in Christ, seeing themselves as a child of God, deeply loved and called to His mission. We’re loved dust. This Christ-based identity allows His love to foster a confidence in Him, knowing we are created in His image and any gifts, strength, or opportunities we have are a demonstration of His grace in our lives.
Humble confidence looks like this:

• Quietly yet firmly sharing one’s opinions when one discerns that they need to be shared for the benefit and encouragement of others and the accomplishment of the mission.

• Inviting honest feedback and evaluation; willing to be held accountable.

• Has a posture of listening and a desire to hear one’s story; offering advice comes from a desire to encourage and strengthen others.

• Choosing not to speak up around other leaders due to discerning spirit that is leading towards silence and contemplation in that moment.

• Seeing the good in others, even ones who don’t think like you, knowing they are created in the image of God; finding at least one thing to praise in another person.

• Doesn’t have time for comparisons due to an intense focus on the mission they feel called to pursue.

• Knee-jerk reaction is self-sacrifice for the sake of others and the mission.

• Failure is an opportunity for growth.

Insecure pride comes from trying to form my identity and calling in myself and by myself. Humble confidence comes from forming my identity and calling outside of myself in Christ.

If I’m honest, I know I’m plagued by insecure pride in my life and leadership. The only way out is repentance, a looking outside of myself for transformation and fixing my focus on Christ and His mission instead of my personal agenda or success. (Source)

 

This Time The Watercolors

Knowing: Faith is a deliberate act of trusting

Knowledge is power....whenever I heard that concept in one way or another I always remember a Filipino genius; Ernie Baron quoting "Kung walang Knowledge, walang power"....

When I first came across Mind Reality website of Enoch Tan, it seems just a bunch of hoax esoteric mixes of New age claims but then although it seems to be just a collections of all available feel-good positivism, it is still quite entertaining to read and somehow filled with sensible knowledge as well. Whoever Enoch Tan, I might say, he is a hardworking person and perhaps like me, love to research wide varieties of things both here and on Heaven above.

Faith is a deliberate act of trusting

Evil forces do not want you to learn the truth because when you increase in knowledge, it threatens their dominion in this world. Reading the Bible and applying the lesson naturally ups your defenses. Truth alone can set you free. The devils want to attack areas in your life that you are most unaware of. Jesus said, “I am the way, the TRUTH, and the life.” 

Continuous awareness or constant meditation of The Word (Jesus) alone is enough to deter attacks. It is very important to stay in the Light (Jesus) so that we can dispel darkness. Sometimes the devils re-attack because he sees an opening of weakness in certain part of your life. This may occur again and again not to teach us something “New” but to REMIND us of a lesson we have forgotten. That is why we need to REFRESH all the time. 

Bible stories are filled with refreshing incident from men and women who had sinned and repented. Moses was a murderer, King David was an adulterer, Paul was a self-righteous zealot, and Peter was not a loyal friend, in fact, it you can easily relate to each and every Lead character in it because they are just as human as you. They are not as Holy as you think they are suppose to be but became Holy (Acceptable) because of Awareness and Acceptance of their sins and by Choosing Jesus (The Light of the world) in their Life. That is the essence of REPENTANCE—bringing into awareness our past sins and renewing our understanding of Reality. 

Not all lessons must be experienced with pain, because it is obvious that clever people can learn from the mistakes of others.

Here's an excerpt from one of his writings:

You shall find God when you seek him with all your heart. The reason why God doesn’t exist in full manifestation automatically for you is because you create your own reality. You are the one that determines how much of God you experience. The intensity of your intent determines the strength of its manifestation. The movement of Spirit is the immense inner forces of your soul, the subconscious mind.

God is an inner experience. You have to feel your way to God. Let your seeking be feeling and emotion.

Behind all our manifestations, we must know God in order to have the proper consciousness. The reason is because we can only expect to receive according to our own perception of the Source. In the end all things lead back to God, The Source.

It begins with knowing what you want, and then knowing how to get it through intention, and then knowing that intention works through the power of God, and then knowing that your relationship with God determines how it all happens. Knowing God is the ultimate.

When you literally know the thoughts that God thinks, you will have certainty about the way God is, and have peace. The Bible is the only place that reveals the definite thoughts of God. “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

This is God Himself speaking in the first person about what He thinks towards you. God is a self aware,self conscious being as he declares with the word “I”. He himself says what he thinks.

God is aware of the thoughts that he thinks towards you. He is not an unconscious, automatic intelligence that runs the universe. He is an active intelligence that has a self conscious personality. He is declaring the thoughts that he thinks towards you. This means that no one can make conjunctures about what God thinks, because God Himself is stating what he thinks. No one can also question whether God thinks evil unconsciously, because God says he KNOWS the thoughts that he thinks toward us.

♫ Tonight I'm falling and I can't get up....
I need your loving hands to come and pick me up...♪

Ah yes you might think that what I'm posting isn't correlated because as I blog what's on my head or what I came across at the moment, I am also sharing the artwork that are on my easels and work area...or sometimes what I feel like sharing, so don't bother to synthesized these images with what I've written here....all realities are happening from different point or perspective.