Lila Tace

February 9, 2025

Art As Direct Soul Expression (Podcast Episode 23)

I don’t conceal; I sing my soul; I fly like a bird. My art is unapologetically me. I am most free in my art. My art is my direct soul expression. Frida Kahlo is her art. Picasso is his art. And so I too must become my art. I experience utter freedom expressing through art; I flow. I unbecome in the act. The act remains; I am no more. S...

January 31, 2025

Non-Duality And Art: Who Are You Becoming? (Podcast Episode 22)

Mastery in an area of life is you dying to yourself in that area of life. You've surrendered yourself to your work and are no more when you create. You freely create without the mask of identity boxing you in. You are your soul when you create. You enter the flow of life and disappear into the work. The resistance you feel creating and...

January 24, 2025

Complete Self-Expression Is The Key To Success: To Make Art Or To Be Art? (Podcast Episode 21)

Complete self-expression is the key to success. Actions that are complete cast no shadows. Complete actions arise as spontaneous, natural expressions of the soul without any filter through the image we hold of ourselves. When such work meets the world, authenticity shines through and connects naturally with the hearts that it is for. L...

January 6, 2025

Potent Work: Potency Vs. Force (Podcast Episode 20)

I used to think that hard work was the root of great work. That force was necessary to create work worth sharing. I have come to a different conclusion. I realized that when I am aligned with my authentic/natural being, work flows effortlessly. I realized that when I force, I am not in complete alignment. Forced work pales in compariso...

December 30, 2024

The Spiritual Discipline Of An Artist & Where Is My Muse? (Podcast Episode 19)

The spiritual journey of art has its ups and downs; is unpredictable and non-linear. Weeks of struggle and force accumulate to a revelation, the surrender of obstructions, and an experience of greater creation. Pain humbles with each successful or failed attempt; the lesson is the point. As the artist grows, so does the art. The art be...

December 19, 2024

Creative Output And Becoming A Child Again (Podcast Episode 18)

The best artists have no walls to creation; no curtain of self; no fear of perceptions of others. They are in direct communion, and so their art vibrates with life and emanates God. When artists create, they free fall. Creation is dampened by, 'What will others think of me and my art?' Creation is boxed in by, 'Is this okay to share?' ...

December 11, 2024

The Value Of Art In The World (Podcast Episode 17)

The Secret To Immortality Divine River Of Life Will you carry me? Divine Ocean Of Bliss Will you bury me? Divine Water Of Knowledge Will you reveal to me? The Secret To Immortality Hail, River Divine Your stream sounds so pure Hail, Ocean Supreme Shall I just let me go? My splintered, scattered self At once, your waves devour I am just...

December 3, 2024

Cogs To Artists (Podcast Episode 16)

Cogs to artists. Tribes were connected and held sacred as one big family. Once a tribe was too big to call a family, it split in two, and one tribe moved to a different location and established another settlement. The Industrial Age connected the world and made it rich and fruitful, but that feeling of a familiar bond beyond the family...

November 28, 2024

Selfless Service And The Carving Of One's Place In Art (Podcast Episode 15)

There is a shift that happens when you don't do it for yourself anymore but you do it for them. Duty. No matter your mood. No matter the circumstance. You show up for them. When you are scared to show up, you face those fears for them. By healing them, you heal yourself. Your dedication is serving your people. And as your good aligns w...

November 17, 2024

The Spiritual Path Of Art (Podcast Episode 14)

When my little soul came here it was alive, pure, playful, bold, intelligently knowing and being love; giving, and emanating divinity within. I don’t know exactly when the cloud of misery dawned on me. It must have been in High School, with the onset of puberty. Protecting myself from the great mean world I created a crust around my so...

November 11, 2024

My Work Is My Salvation (Podcast Episode 13)

With each step I take towards my destiny I am a little less pain and a little more soul. With each step I take, I fight the perpetuation of my past (identity) and fight my battle against myself to shed that coat of past by creating and sharing art. Each creation and sharing of art is accompanied by a release of past restrictions of sel...

November 4, 2024

What Makes Art Beautiful?

What makes art beautiful? Living, emanating art holds captured beauty. The artist creating in a state of beauty, captures beauty. The artist in torment, captures torment. The artist dictates the manifestation of the art. Torment is not art. Art is beauty. The source of the art’s beauty is the artist. What makes an artist beautiful? Liv...

November 3, 2024

Mastery And God

Hard work is required to gain the skills. A master then unlearns everything to become a child again. He learns to surrender to the divine. He learns to be life; not force it but to let it unfold through him. He learns to trust in life and knows he’s a mere tool of creation. He obeys and respects the art that comes through. He sees the ...

October 25, 2024

a genius

Let's the divine do it all takes all the credit know he's a fool The more one tries the less genius he is The more one surrenders the more intelligent one becomes Life is intelligence geniuses don't stand in the way of life lilatace.com

October 25, 2024

You can’t police the divine like you police yourself

I never know how The song writes itself I never know how The book writes itself I sit by myself And I feel I ought to write I get up and grab my guitar And the most beautiful little piece comes my way Through my hands Untouched Divine Pure Effort is not a word I’d use Floating perhaps Stepping aside Surrendering Bathing in bliss The wo...

October 20, 2024

There is no need to collect or consume anything. It's all within the soul. Unbecome. Melt all you collected. Be who you are. Create with your soul and delight the world. All is within. You came complete. Just see that, be that, and express that. It's the most natural, and effortless soul expression that you are longing for. Spontaneous...

September 20, 2024

The scales are tipping.

Dead art ruled for a long time. But dead art is dying out. Living art today is ahead of its time. But who has eyes sees. The scales are tipping. lilatace.com

September 20, 2024

Don’t stop walking.

Every artist becomes a philosopher when they walk long enough. lilatace.com

September 20, 2024

Poetry Of Dissolving Identity!

You don't need to do. I quietly work on you. You don't need to dissolve. I instantly devour you. You don't need to speak. I take your tongue. You don’t need to see. I become your eyes. You don’t need to believe. I give a taste. You don’t need to know. I like a fool. You don’t need to let go. I fall into you. You don't need to retain. I...

September 20, 2024

Your destiny.

Your destiny — the life that belongs to the world. lilatace.com

September 20, 2024

The hermit.

My community grows out of my hermit cell. A cell that’s true to me. Not a cancerous clot of death. My part grows out of my hermit soul. A soul that’s bravely me. Not a shadow play of past. My voice grows out of my hermit heart. A heart that melts the ice. I drop my distant cold attire. My road forms in front of my hermit eyes. My eyes ...

September 19, 2024

The road.

Sometimes, other people hear your voice before you do. Sometimes, other people see a light you don't. And they tell you it shines from you. And you don't believe them; how could you? For you don't see that light. But you've been looking. But you've been looking in the wrong places. Treading carefully along a path well-lit. But no path ...

September 8, 2024

In harmony with life expressing through me.

I get an impulse to write—I write. I get an impulse to record—I record. lilatace.com

September 5, 2024

'If I was going to put anything on record, then it ought to be me.' - John Coltrane

There's a lot to learn from John Coltrane. The Road To Mastery. Private art and public art are two different worlds. Private art is comfortable growth at one's own pace, while public art is compressed, pressured growth, leading to leaps in artistic development if not abandoned by facing pain publically. Mastery is establishing one's vo...

September 4, 2024

Master, then break the box.

A box is a beautiful frame until it becomes my prison. Mastery requires demolition, undoing, and liberation. Masters fly like birds, and so I, too, must let go and fly. lilatace.com

September 4, 2024

Public & private art are two different worlds.

I. Private Art: comfortable growth at own pace II. Public Art: compressed, pressured growth; leaps if not abandoned; facing pain in public III. Mastery: establishing one's voice through one's chain of art (portfolio) = carving one's place in art lilatace.com

September 3, 2024

Sing to liberate yourself. Then, sing to liberate the world. In other words, sing until there is no more you in the music. lilatace.com

August 31, 2024

Why is Jazz so divinely beautiful?

There aren’t multiple players. Jazz is one. lilatace.com

August 31, 2024

Journey to God through art.

I. Pain And Misery: You create a lot of ugly art to get to the bottom of it all. Purge the pain. II. Healing Journey (Self Healing): Art becomes purer and healthier with each trauma release. III. Dissolution Into God (Healing the world through art): Direct transmission of God through art. Art is a mirror of the artist's state of being ...

August 31, 2024

Coltrane.

listen I am nowhere near the channel he is — divine. His music puts me there — somewhere. No human — transmission. Gods. I Study them — they turn human. Confidence. Do something — anything? The thing only I can bring. lilatace.com