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Flow Line Faces are my “active meditation” drawing exercises, a practice I have cultivated since my early twenties. They are meditative sequences in which both the creative process and the completed drawings become the artwork itself. Each piece is signed, and many include writings on the reverse side, capturing reflections born from the same spontaneous state of creation.
The entire practice is rooted in surrender to the present moment, moving with trust and courage, without preconceived ideas of what will be written or drawn. Equally important is the release of judgment toward the lines, forms, and words that emerge, allowing the experience to remain a genuine expression of the moment, free from interference by the “lower mind.”
The practice is designed to deepen one’s relationship with intuition and to cultivate trust in its guidance while traversing the unknown. The drawings and writings arise through spontaneity, allowing the artist to become more like a channel for higher dimensions of the self rather than the conditioned patterns of the lower self.
At the heart of this practice is an essential distinction: we follow the love and wisdom of the heart, rather than the fear, judgment, and opinion of the mind. This is the way of my Flow Line Faces.
While creating Flow Line Faces (active meditation drawing practice) this insight arose:
Become the Cause
“Your circumstances may influence your life, but they do not have to determine who you become.”
Success means something different to every person, yet the principles that support it remain remarkably consistent. We are each given time, energy, imagination, attention, and the ability to act. The life we create is shaped by how consciously we direct these resources.
It is easy to become identified with present circumstances and assume they define what is possible. We may believe that the past has already decided the future, or that we must wait for conditions to change before we can move forward. Yet circumstances are not identity. They are the present expression of many influences, including previous choices, beliefs, habits, relationships, and events beyond our control. They can inform us without imprisoning us.
The Love and Truth Practice invites us to move from reaction into conscious participation. Instead of asking only, Why is this happening to me? we also ask, What can this reveal, and how can I respond differently now? This is not self-blame. It is the restoration of creative responsibility. Problems become information, limitations awaken ingenuity, and failure becomes part of the learning through which a new direction is formed.
Lasting transformation begins with being before doing and having. Before a new reality can become sustainable, we must develop the inner qualities capable of carrying it. Ask yourself: Who must I become for this vision to feel natural?What beliefs, disciplines, standards, and ways of responding would that person embody? Each new level of life may require releasing an identity built around fear, limitation, or the need to remain familiar.
Imagination becomes an essential part of this process. The mind can continually rehearse the past, or it can become familiar with a new possibility. When we repeatedly imagine failure, rejection, and limitation, we train ourselves to recognize evidence for them. When we consciously envision how we wish to feel, communicate, create, and live, we begin preparing the body, heart, and mind to recognize a different path.
Through active meditation, we return to an open, relaxed, and alert state of presence. From there, the heart clarifies the direction, imagination gives it form, and the mind organizes the next practical step. The vision must then enter the physical world through action.
Do not wait for fear to disappear before moving. Readiness is often created through movement. One sincere action strengthens self-trust, changes the conditions around us, and reveals possibilities that thought alone could not see. The entire path does not need to be known. Only the next loving and truthful step is required.
To become the cause does not mean believing that we control everything that happens. It means refusing to surrender our creative power to what has already happened. We become responsible for the presence, choices, and actions through which the future is now being formed.
Your past may explain where you are, but it does not have the authority to decide where you are going.
Become clear in vision, aligned in being, and courageous in action. Then become the cause of what comes next.
Front and back view of 10 drawings:
