Welcome to my Blue Universe

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

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

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

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

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 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

Our sadness is as much a part
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

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

- 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)

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

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.

~Minnie Aumonier