As long as creative people feel in harmony with their work and are progressing, they are happy and fulfilled. When the relation breaks down their interior life also breaks down.
- At a Journal Workshop by Ira Progoff
Life as art is, in part, a search for harmony with oneself. We search for the song within, and for the courage to celebrate it. When we can’t find it, or are out-of-sync with it, ignore it, or lack the courage to manifest it, life breaks down.
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.
The Tao Te Ching speaks of a life lived from the inside out — not performed, not forced, but flowing from what is already there. Zen practice asks the same question in silence: what is the song you were singing before you learned to speak?
- Charlie Parker
Art: A Search For Harmony With Oneself
The Tao Te Ching Journal: A Path To Inner Quiet
Zen Mountain Journal blends Taoist hermit poetry, contemplative art, and reflections drawn from a lifetime shaped by wilderness, solitude, and decades doing creative work on the outer boundaries of our culture. These journals are companions for seekers — guides in the reconnection with inner quiet, beauty, and the “soundless music” of a life lived with simplicity and meaning.
• Size: 9.25 × 8.5 inches — convenient size for desk or lap.
• Hardcover — the book can be written in without a table or desk.
• Double wire-o bound to lay flat.
• Printed on Mohawk Superfine, a premium uncoated paper for a beautiful writing surface.
• 160 pages.
