Quote of the day

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness::: Mark Rothko :::

Reality is an even greater illusion

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have
christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world
of dreams.

::: Salvador Dali :::

Reality is a grand illusiomn

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have
christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world
of dreams.
::: Salvador Dali :::

My love is based upon my love

My love is based upon my love, not upon what anyone does.
It is a love that lifts always. It is a love that can transcend all other levels. But you have to have the wit to see it. You have to have the courage to participate. You have to have the endurance to always turn to the love through all things.

John-Roger(From: The Way Out Book, p. 187)

Everything has value.

A key is to appreciate with gratitude what you find.Everything has value. Nothing needs to be different fromwhat it is. That's a beginning point. If you venture forth without accepting things the way theyare, you are in a path of separation and disturbance. Youare going to be off and out of balance. You will need tocome back to acceptance, which is letting things be whatthey are and open to what can become. - John Morton

Something worth me re-remembering

“Tell me and I forget,
show me and I may remember,
let me do it and I learn.”
Prue Leith

Use your creativity

Using your creativity, you can choose things to do and things not to do in support of what you want. It isn't so important to intellectually understand why you are doing something; it is more important to recognize what you are doing. Is what you are doing supporting your getting what you want? You may as well accept responsibility for your choice because you're stuck with it, anyhow. If you look at what you're doing and find that it is not really supportive of the success you want, your next step is simple: stop doing it. You don't have to act or respond in ways that are not for you. You don't have to be a victim of emotional content and do things that are against yourself.

- John-Roger(From: Wealth & Higher Consciousness, p. 149-150)

A picture tells a thousand stories

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is
transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an
opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
::: Richard Avedon :::

I am always interested in what we miss when we try to focus
on what we see. For example, when you take a photo you will
always feel a bit disappointed after the exposure, because it's
never representing what you perceived when you took it.
::: Peter Doig :::

Rumi

Brother stand the pain;
Escape the poison of your impulses.
The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do.
Learn to light the candle.
Rise with the sun.
Turn away from the cave of your sleeping.

::: Rumi

Meditation - sent to me 07.08.07

Just as we need scaffolding to build a building, just as scaffolding was needed for Michelangelo and his apprentices to paint the frescos on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so we need a certain kind of framework to bring us to the essence of this inner work, right at the edge of this in-breath, this out-breath, this body, this moment.
But just as when the building is built, the ceiling completed, the scaffolding is no longer needed and comes down, never having been part of the essence of the endeavor, simply a necessary and useful means for furthering it, so with meditation, the very scaffolding of instructions and framework is dismantled, dismantles itself really, and only the impalpable, wordless essence remains, that essence being wakefulness itself, beyond and underneath, "before" thinking even arises.