Jeg husker tydeligt da jeg gik tur ved stranden og disse ord kom dumpende.
“Jeg forstår, hvorfor mange store kunstnere for omverdenen har forekommet sindssyge. Thi de udstillede, hvad der gemte sig i deres sind.”
Det var sjovt fordi jeg aldrig selv ville bruge “thi” i en sætning, det er det nok de færreste der ville i dag… Alligevel var der ingen tvivl om, at det skulle være der.
Udsagnet fik mig til, at tænke på noget, jeg har læst af Eckhart Tolle…
“Du er sikkert stødt på ‘gale’ mennesker på gaden, der uophørligt taler eller mumler til sig selv. Det er ikke ret meget anderledes end det, du og alle andre ‘normale’ mennesker gør, bortset fra at du ikke siger det højt.”
– Nuets Kraft, Eckhart Tolle
Jeg kan godt lide ideen om, at vi nok alle ville virke lidt skøre, hvis vi turde dele det, der gemmer sig derinde bag de lukkede pandelapper. Måske ville vi være lidt mere forstående overfor dem, der ikke holder sig bag de anerkendte facader, hvis vi kunne iagttage vores egne tankemønstre på samme måde som vi iagttager og dømmer andres handlemåder, det værende at udtrykke sig i kunst, udtale stemmerne i hovedet eller noget helt tredje.
Læser man eksempelvis ‘Nuets Kraft’, kunne man hurtigt komme til at hælde imod at ‘sindssygen’ er det ‘normale’. Vi ville alle få noget mere ud af, at vende pilen indad hver gang vi får lyst til at pege den mod andre, men det sværeste er og bliver jo nok; at iagttage sig selv.
*English Translation
I clearly remember when I was walking at the beach and these words came pouring out.
“I understand why many great artists have appeared insane to the outside world. For they exhibited what was hidden in their minds.”
It was funny because I myself would never express it in this old fashioned way, probably few would today… Still, there was no doubt that it had to be that way.
The statement made me think of something I read by Eckhart Tolle…
“You’ve probably come across ‘crazy’ people on the street who talk or mumble to themselves incessantly. It’s not very different from what you and all other ‘normal’ people do, except you don’t say it out loud.”
– The Power Of Now, Eckhart Tolle
I like the idea that we’d all seem a little crazy if we dared to share what’s hidden in there behind those closed forehead flaps. Perhaps we would be a little more understanding towards those who do not stay behind the recognized facades, if we could observe our own thought patterns in the same way we observe and judge the actions of others, be it expressing themselves in art, pronouncing the voices in their heads or something else entirely.
If you read, for example, ‘The Power Of Now’, you could quickly come to lean towards ‘insanity’ being the ‘normal’. We could all get something out of turning the arrow inwards every time we feel like pointing it at others, but I guess the hardest part is and will be; to observe oneself.
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