Open today carefully
hope to enjoy whatever it offers
lingering not for a moment to
suffer in regret, angst, fear.
I hope when I look around me.
to feel the warmth of the sun?
If it is not there, that I can anticipate its return?
Finding joy and thanks only in what I have.
However little there may be
knowing, at least for this one day
it is enough.
she took the leap and built her wings on the way down
If you are always
trying to be normal
you will never know
how amazing
you can be.
- Maya Angelou
trying to be normal
you will never know
how amazing
you can be.
- Maya Angelou
If the sight of blue skies
fills you with joy
if the simplest things
of nature
have a message
you understand
rejoice your soul is alive
-Eleanora Duse
Blue has no dimensions
it is beyond dimensions
whereas the other colours are not
All colours arouse
specific associative ideas.
while blue suggests
at most the sea and sky
and they - after all,
are in actual, visible nature
what is most abstract.
- Yves Klein
Change:
learn to take it like a duck takes to water
DIVE ON IN
YES I CAN –and- YES. I WILL
freedom lies in being bold
a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars
in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in my soul
-Max Ehrmann
Understanding:
is happiness
a journey or a destination?
destinations are temporary
once you arrive
you are always
headed somewhere else
like standing still
no such thing
We inhabit bodies
made of moving particles
living on a planet
that rotates on an axis
while orbiting the sun.
Standing still
doesn’t exist
neither does
arrival at a destination
Wise words:
a tiger doesn't lose sleep, over the opinion of sheep
And:
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can
without going over, out on the edge
you see kinds of things you can't see from the center.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Choice and consequence:
life is like a card game
you may not choose the hand dealt
but it’s your choice how to play the cards
every choice has a consequence
The only people
I need in my life
are the ones
who need me
in theirs
even when
I have nothing
else to offer them
but myself
BREATHE IN THE BLUE AND VAST SPACE
“The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Learning and growth:
Everything you try to avoid about yourself
will keep playing out in your life
this creates the perfect opportunity for you to embrace
love and heal this part of yourself
-Melanie Tonia Evans
WHEN?
HOW ABOUT NOW!
you never know how much time you have
Releasing and accepting:
It’s ok to be one minute lost in anger and grief
then in the next hopeful and optimistic –
in case of emergency – repeat (IT IS WHAT IT IS)
The truth:
Three things cannot be hidden:
the sun, the moon and the truth
- Buddha
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
. . . By the deep sea, and music in its roar.
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
And very true:
In life, you realize
there is a role for everyone you meet
some will test you, use you
love you, and teach you
but the ones who are truly important
are the ones who bring
out the best in you
they are the rare and amazing people
who remind you - why it's worth it
there is a role for everyone you meet
some will test you, use you
love you, and teach you
but the ones who are truly important
are the ones who bring
out the best in you
they are the rare and amazing people
who remind you - why it's worth it
For wanderers, searchers, dreamers and lovers
Some people do not have to search
They find their niche early in life
and rest there seemingly
Contented and resigned
At times I envy them
But usually I don’t understand them
Seldom do they understand me
and rest there seemingly
Contented and resigned
At times I envy them
But usually I don’t understand them
Seldom do they understand me
I am one of the searchers
There are I believe, millions of us
We are not unhappy
But neither are we completely content
We explore life hoping
to uncover its unlimited secret
We continue to walk along the beach
We are not unhappy
But neither are we completely content
We explore life hoping
to uncover its unlimited secret
We continue to walk along the beach
We are drawn to the ocean
Taken by its power and unceasing motion
Its splendour and unspeakable beauty
We like mountains, forests, and deserts
Hidden rivers and lovely cities as well
Its splendour and unspeakable beauty
We like mountains, forests, and deserts
Hidden rivers and lovely cities as well
Our sadness is as much a part
of our lives as our laughter
of our lives as our laughter
To share our sadness with the ones we love
Is as great a joy we know?
Unless it is to share our laughter
We searchers are ambitious only for life itself
And the beauty it can provide
We want to live in a relationship
that will not impede our wandering
nor prevent our search
nor lock us in prison walls
will take us for what little we have to give
We do not want to prove ourselves to another
or compete for love
This passage is for
wanderers, dreamers, and lovers
for lonely men and women 웃유
Is as great a joy we know?
Unless it is to share our laughter
We searchers are ambitious only for life itself
And the beauty it can provide
Most of all we love and want to be loved
We want to live in a relationship
that will not impede our wandering
nor prevent our search
nor lock us in prison walls
will take us for what little we have to give
We do not want to prove ourselves to another
or compete for love
This passage is for
wanderers, dreamers, and lovers
for lonely men and women 웃유
Who dare to ask of life everything
that is good and beautiful
that is good and beautiful
- James Kavanaugh
Describes perfectly, how I lose myself in my painting
The canvas is a map
with no references
the white canvas
upon it a
seductive snowy labyrinth
a plane that is
entirely a vanishing point
an oubliette
a place to forget
a place where one is forgotten
Eye and hand
looking and doing
psychic and physical
condense into a vortex
of attention that
tips me snow-blind
spellbound through its surface
The obsessive processes
of my painting
solitude of the studio
allow me to conceal
anaesthetise both
my flesh and my senses
to fall into a reverie
of repetition that both
stops and stretches time
as the paint walks
the invisible paths
of the canvas
I enter into
the poetic
and primitive state
that is the
‘trance-like suspension
of normal habits of thought’
- (Robert Graves 1948)
with no references
the white canvas
upon it a
seductive snowy labyrinth
a plane that is
entirely a vanishing point
an oubliette
a place to forget
a place where one is forgotten
Eye and hand
looking and doing
psychic and physical
condense into a vortex
of attention that
tips me snow-blind
spellbound through its surface
The obsessive processes
of my painting
solitude of the studio
allow me to conceal
anaesthetise both
my flesh and my senses
to fall into a reverie
of repetition that both
stops and stretches time
as the paint walks
the invisible paths
of the canvas
I enter into
the poetic
and primitive state
that is the
‘trance-like suspension
of normal habits of thought’
- (Robert Graves 1948)
Sometimes it just comes down to:
“The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched
they must be felt with the heart”
- Helen Keller
cannot be seen or even touched
they must be felt with the heart”
- Helen Keller
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
~Minnie Aumonier
~Minnie Aumonier
