Category Archives: Art
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” ~Deepak Chopra
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” ~ John F. Kennedy
“WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.” ~Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
“You are more than your thoughts, your body, or your feelings. You are a swirling vortex of limitless potential who is here to shake things up and create something new that the universe has never seen.” ~Dr. Richard Bartlett
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ~Albert Camus
Art by Cameron Gray
“Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they may feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no-man’s-land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.” ~Eckhart Tolle
Just try and go with the flow. “Don’t try to steer the river.”
And most importantly ~ Don’t give up.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.
Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.
You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.
~Lyrics by Bob Dylan
“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” ~Rumi
Under The Blue Door 