Wednesday, November 30, 2011

To Be The First



"To be the first -- that is the idea. To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment."

-Mark Twain, "Innocents Abroad "

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Real Love Is Forever


Rest In Peace Joe Regur
Jan 3, 1943-Nov 5, 2011



“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.”

-The Crow

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Día de los Muertos


There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

-Lou Reed, "Magic and Loss"

Monday, October 31, 2011

The Most Important Kind Of Freedom Is To Be What You Really Are


“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.”

-Jim Morrison

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Love Of Life


"
Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive-the life force-that lifts us, pulls us back sometimes from the abyss of despair. True spirituality does not exist without love of life."

-Nathaniel Branden

Monday, October 17, 2011

Life's Wheel Of Fortune


“Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it”

-Tupac Shakur

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Make Your Life A Mission



"Make your life a mission - not an intermission."
-Arnold Glasgow

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Burst Yourself Into Bloom



“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Monday, October 3, 2011

Together We Can Do Something Wonderful



“What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.”

-Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Thursday, September 29, 2011

What We Leave Behind



"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another."

- Anatole France

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Kiss Me



“Kiss me and you will see how important I am.”

-Sylvia Plath

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Start A Journey Thru A Strange New World



“Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.”

-Erich Fromm

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Kindness Is A Language



“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see”

-Mark Twain

Monday, September 19, 2011

Let Your Heart Soar



“Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.”

-A. W. Tozer

Friday, September 16, 2011

Explore New Possiblities


“There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.”

-Ray Charles

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Plant A Garden In Which Mysteries Bloom



“The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.”

-Ken Kesey

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Find The Warrior Within



“When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.” 

-Carlos Castaneda

Friday, September 2, 2011

Stand Up For Your Right To Feel Pain


“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”

-Jim Morrison

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Forever In The Heart


“A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.”

-Unknown

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

That Is Why I Dance


“While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance.”

-Hans Bos

Monday, August 29, 2011

My Highest Aspirations


"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

-Louisa May Alcott

Friday, August 26, 2011

Once We Believe In Ourselves



“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

-E. E. Cummings

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The Key Is To Develop Inner Peace



“I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.”

-Dalai Lama

Monday, August 22, 2011

The Responsibility That Comes With His Freedom


“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

-Bob Dylan

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Life Is A Daring Adventure



"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

-Helen Keller

Monday, August 15, 2011

Love Is A Force That Connects Us


"Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it."

-Emily H. Sell

Friday, August 12, 2011

Always Greet With A Smile



"Let us always greet each other with a smile for the smile is the beginning of love."

-Mother Theresa

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Life Is Too Precious A Thing


"In the face of this absurdity, life is too precious a thing to permit its devaluation by living pointlessly, emptily, without meaning, without love, and finally, without hope."

-Vaclav Havel

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Energy Of Love


"[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love."

-Laura Esquivel

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Necessary To Love


"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."

-Claude Monet

Monday, August 1, 2011

The Boldness Of Asking Deep Questions



"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."

-Brian Greene

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Hold Fast To Your Dreams


“Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

-Langston Hughes

Monday, July 25, 2011

We Must Make Our Ladder


“In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere.”

-Victor Hugo

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Burning Cathedral Of The Summer



"I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer.  My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music.  It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips."

-Violette Leduc

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Explore, Dream, and Discover



“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

-Mark Twain

Monday, July 11, 2011

"Very Root Of Our Being"


"Every time we leave home and go to another place, we open up the possibility of having something wonderful happen to us. When we move out of the familiar here and now, we set in motion a series of events that, taken together, bring about changes at the very root of our being."

-Joseph Dispenza 

Saturday, July 2, 2011

I Escape, One Way Or Another. No More Walls



“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”

-Anais Nin 

Monday, June 27, 2011

Things I Have No Words For



“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”

-Georgia O'Keeffe

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Live Out Loud


“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: "I am here to live out loud”

 -Emile Zola

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Monday, June 13, 2011

Jaron Lanier


“Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting.  In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.”

 -Jaron Lanier 

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Comedian Who Could Dance



“I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance”

-Rita Hayworth

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

He Who Wonders



"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."

-M. C. Escher

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Realize My Dreams

      
“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”

-Man Ray 

Monday, June 6, 2011

Where Nature May Heal


“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.”

-John Muir

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Be What You Really Are


“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.”

-Jim Morrison

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

In Dreams Awake


"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

-Henry David Thoreau

Friday, May 27, 2011

Art Is Everywhere



"Great art is a doorway to the divine. Art, in this context-both its creation and contemplation-is a vehicle for discovering our full potential, the divinity within us."

-Romio Shrestha

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Refuse To Fall Down


“Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven-only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.”

-Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Monday, May 23, 2011

Only With Absolute Fearlessness



“Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.”

-George Lois