BONsai/Zen

The mind of the past is ungraspable;

the mind of the future is ungraspable;

the mind of the present is ungraspable.

- Diamond Sutra

HEARts

"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen." - Martin Luther
"But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust

TRUST in.....[?]

Out to lunch: If not back by five, out for dinner also.
Anonymous

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim

the hour

What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of the great contempt. The hour when your happiness, too, arouses your disgust, and even your reason and your virtue. The hour when you say, 'What matters my happiness? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment. But my happiness ought to justify existence itself.' The hour when you say, 'What matters my reason? Does it crave knowledge as the lion his food? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment.' The hour when you say, 'What matters my virtue? As yet it has not made me rage. How weary I am of my good and my evil! All that is poverty and filth and wretched contentment.' Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) Source: Thus spoke Zarathustra.

Silence must be felt

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. Chauncey Depew
Look into the others eyes, many frustrations Read between the lines, no words just vibrations Don't ignore hidden desires Pay attention, you're playing with fire Silence must be heard, noise should be observed The time has come to learn, that silence ... Silence must be heard Or diamonds will burn, friendly cards will turn Cause silence has the right to be heard People talk too much for what they have to say Words without a meaning, just fading away Silence must be heard, noise should be observed The time has come to learn, that silence ... diamonds will burn, friendly cards will turn Cause silence has the right to be heard

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Gustave Flaubert

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago,

Catholic school children would be wearing little

electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

Lenny Bruce

Suggests that my alter ego today is the People Pleaser, whose superpower is the 'bubble of denial.' I need to exercise my prerogative, to humor the ridiculous, go out on a limb or remain the pious hold out and risk persecution. So be it. I can't validate the guilty pleasure, hang-up or self-indulgence, but I can rationalize being a willing slave to its pressure or condescend to acquiesce to avoid real suffering, even garner sympathy for my righteous sacrifice or implied martyrdom. Thus I can step it up or hang out, submit to the charade, or sacrifice to what end? But it's the inevitably lame justification that prompts posturing, or playing victim, dumb or innocent. Today I can take it, fake it, quit kidding myself, or put an end to tempting resistance and just grin and bear it. Or, call the bluff -- give them a rope and they'll hang themselves soon enough."

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein

PICnik

done with PICnik

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
~Bansky~taken from ADbusters magazine

Loretta

I'm a spy in the house of love.

I know the dream, that you're dreamin' of.

I know the words that you long to hear.

I know your deepest, secret fear.

***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmKpUyIAqok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKbPUzhWeeI&feature=related

Begin at the beginning ... and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Lewis Carroll

“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”
***

Now I know why we are here. I know why we live. It's because once you find someone you love and care for so dearly, where you would give up anything and everything for them, you found purpose in your life that makes it worth living. You are my purpose and I do not know what to do without you. That is where I wish I could stay forever, in your arms. My heart beats for you now and forever. You will always have a permanent place in my heart. I need you more than anything. You will be my life support. You will be my soul mate, my best-friend, my lover, my hero, the person who defends me, my one and only, my confidant, my true love, my heart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8pAYLJa6do

'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"

“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.”-Denis Waitley

Clothes make the person. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

St. Johns, NflL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador

ReVealing

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that.

Then I realized I was somebody.

Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.- Liam Gallagher
She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.- Liam Gallagher - about Victoria Beckham (former Spice Girl)

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.~Helen Rowland

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.~Mignon McLaughlin

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NYS, USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albright-Knox_Art_Gallery

Praha

Praha, Charles Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague

Beaches

Costa Rica, beach Pacific side
Rock-Beach, Long Beach, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

Teotihuacan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan

creatures...

"All of us are God's creatures... just some are more creature than others."
"Beware of 'Sheep' dressed in... Wolves clothing....."
"Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may
become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright. "
“Never moon a werewolf.”