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Sketch: Nourishing body and soul

July 31, 2015 by philipp68

The last post was about our psychological roots, how old memories can provide comfort and nourishment. In this sketch I tried to capture our physical roots, how a good bowl of soup can nourish our body and make us remember that we are children of Earth. Earth is an amazing planet As a kid I always dreamt of leaving Earth to explore the universe in a spaceship. I thought that being an astronaut must be the coolest job in the […]

Categories: Sketch • Tags: Nature, Roots

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Sketch: The immune system rocks

July 30, 2015 by philipp68

These last couple of days I have been at home, drinking a lot of tea, sleeping long hours and slowly getting better from a bad cold. Browsing through my notebook I decided to post the following sketch, showing the deeper layers of our body. Thank you immune system, for helping me and kindly telling that virus to find shelter somewhere else. In the meantime, let’s discuss similarities between the inner and the outer world to continue the series I started two weeks […]

Categories: Sketch • Tags: Body, Heart, Mind

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Sketch: How many likes

July 27, 2015 by philipp68

While I was doing this sketch, trying to show that the senses connect our inner and outer worlds, I realized how the addiction to be popular on Facebook is similar to the way our mind likes or dislikes everything it experiences. How we learn Our mind is this incredible apparatus that translates what we sense into what we know. The rational brain learns about the world by categorizing, memorizing and naming sense patterns. Our inner life is packed with words […]

Categories: Sketch • Tags: Attachment, Body, Ego, Mind, Senses

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Sketch: The inner and the outer life

July 26, 2015 by philipp68

More sketching, less writing It’s been almost 6 months since the last post. I was struggling to finish what I have been working on, probably because what I wanted to say was not clear in my head. It felt as if every time I sat down to write a couple of sentences, I would miss the point and get lost. Somehow I was trying to say too much, without knowing what I really wanted to communicate. So instead of writing […]

Categories: Sketch • Tags: Balance, Body, Mind

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