The bridge of awareness

Friedrich Nietzsche - Philosopher

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Shunyamurti - Adept healer who functions also as a researcher, author, leader, guide, retreat facilitator, and teacher. He is the founder and spiritual director of the Sat Yoga Institute and Ashram

The artist is a shaman. The artist's role, especially in the West, has always been to alter the state of consciousness of the viewer, and to force the big Other, the collective superego, to face its own shadow -- as well as to face the super-consciousness, the One that is beyond the Other, that it denies.