How to Save Better Seeds

When you are born, you are a bundle of raw potential; as you mature, your life becomes more lived, and eventually, more of your life has been actualized than remains unperformed. Similarly, art itself feels like being born: a spiritual idea makes contact with the material world but there it must be crafted into being. Birth imparts potential, but life desires to be realized. 

Within each seed are enormous possibilities. In the emergence of the plant from the seed, the seed’s potential progressively manifests as the actual plant. How a plant arises from a seed presents quite a mystery, but no anomaly. “Mystery is not one of the possibilities of reality. Mystery is what is absolutely necessary in order for reality to exist.”¹

If an artist receives inspiration, she will uniquely craft her inspiration, refracted through the prism of her soul. No artist will manife…