When I sit with myself like this, in stillness and silence, I feel vast and impervious. I am a stone that gets wet and dries off. A stem that leans into the wind and straightens again. A curl that bounces back.
— heidi kalyani, 2018
from the *nothing is black and white* project: illustration created out of meditation with a single unbroken line
I’ve stopped asking myself “what do I want to *do* today?” and started asking myself “how do I want to *be* today?” For me, *being* is much richer, more fulfilling, more enlivening — and a lot less pressure! When I’m *being*, each moment is filled with raw, open-hearted curiosity, with a wonder that is fire and serenity together, with a knowing that is unconditional, eternal and all encompassing. *Being* is when I am truly at home, fully myself, and entirely at peace. It’s a state so powerful, that when I commit to it (with gentleness, so that it doesn’t appear on any to-do lists, or in any well-intentioned self-improvement schemes), it transforms all of my *doing* into magical, compassionate gifts that amaze me with their honesty, their integrity and their infinite wisdom.
— heidi kalyani, 2017
from the *nothing is black and white* project: illustration created out of meditation with a single unbroken line