How short-lived every human experience is...

Consider this: if there were only one color, let us say blue, and the entire world and everything in it were blue, then there would be no blue. There needs to be something that is not blue so that blue can be recognized; otherwise, it would not “stand out,” would not exist. 

In the same way, does it not require something that is not fleeting and impermanent for the fleetingness of all things to be recognized? In other words: if everything, including yourself, were impermanent, would you even know it? Does the fact that you are aware of and can witness the short-lived nature of all forms, including your own, not mean that there is something in you that is not subject to decay?

When you are twenty, you are aware of your body as strong and vigorous; sixty years later, you are aware of your body as weakened and old. Your thinking too may have changed from when you were twenty, but the awareness that knows that your body is young or old or that your thinking has changed has undergone no change. That awareness is the eternal in you – consciousness itself. It is the formless One Life. Can you lose It? No, because you are It.

Eckhart Tolle,  Stillness Speaks

A Color in Your Mind, Like… a Song on Your Skin.

Many events in the daily lives of each of us are accompanied by noises, sounds, rhythms, but also by colors, images, nuances. In the last century more than ever, music and color marked the beat of the moments of joy and pain, leisure and toil, to conclude with notes of hope. Because, as well as letting lovers dream, music also has the power to stimulate a greater creativity and efficiency, even in study. In sounds and music, “the color“ is manifested in different cadencies, in sharp, opaque and muffled tones: from the rhythms of tribal dance to the whirling Viennese waltz, to more complex instrumental orchestrations. Sky blue is dream, movement; it has prompted countless romantic pulsations, but it is also to be found in the ”Futurism” of Balla and Boccioni, who paint sculptural masses rich in rhythm and energy, which shift, flee, indicate a direction… Movement, dynamism are protagonist of the dream sphere, the search for a far-off goal, a road to travel, the journey to achieve it. Put a song on your skin… Put a color in your mind.