Spiritual insight from Einstein

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.~Albert Einstein
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Inside..Composed by me.. 03/31/2012

Look to the sun..yet ponder the darkness
Remains to be seen..thoughts encompass
Among the realms the absence exists,
Can decide nothing but time.
Exploring its depth.. the absolute rush
Contemplating..looking back
Lacking in much ..
But a minute arrived,
the senses understood
The silent heart beats
A break in time begins
As the arrow to its point,
times' only chance..to win.

We are..

As fire, we burn, we consume..

Stills the Night..Composed by me on 12/31/11

It's like..

The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief. ~Shawn Purvis

So it was scary..

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.~Michael Chabon

Have you heard..

Loudly and Clearly..Our Sun has been speaking to us..Listen..




Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
~Sun Tzu

Another day..

Another day to live life..Quenches me

The World is..

"The world is a great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong."

~Swami Vivekananda

Detail

"Caress the detail, the divine detail."
~Vladmir Nabokov

Back to school!!

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley

So hot hot hot!

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
-- Russel Baker




"lets go cruising - you & me
salty air - my sun kissed hair
endless summer-just
take me there

Timing..

Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a raindance

The ability

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive
~Ray Bradbury

Just keep dancing..

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

- George Bernard Shaw




“There are shortcuts to happiness,

and dancing is one of them.”

- Vicki Baum

My Daddy..I Love you and I miss you! ♥♥

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
-- Enid Bagnold

Sweet Sweet Summertime!

Oh, bring again my heart's content,
Thou Spirit of the Summer-time
~William Allingham




Sunset on the Mississippi River

Oh, the summer night

Has a smile of light

And she sits on a Sapphire throne

~Barry Cornwall

Springtime..

Author Unknown

Your Inner Moonlight

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness"
~Alan Ginsberg

Goin "Fishin" Happy March!

As long as life and/or love are not boring..I will be happiest!

Free as air

Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
* Alexander Pope

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
* French Proverb

Happy Valentines Day! ♥♥

Warm hearts to you..

Spring is coming!

"Come, gentle Spring! Ethereal Mildness! Come."
- James Thomson

Happy New Year!

“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul”
jose G. K. Chesterton

The way it should be

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -- the ones that last -- are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. It's like, one day you look at a person and you see more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend... is suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with..
~Scully

Indian Summer

...a final reprieve, a sad last look at the world in congenial colors before the ground becomes hard again, the gutters gray with sleet, the skies barren and flat like dirty metal.
New York Times editorial

Keep the homefires burning

I'll walk these borders in search of a line.
Between young lovers who live separate lives.

Autumn is here

Believe in yourself, your neighbors, your work, your ultimate attainment of complete happiness. It is only the farmer that faithfully plants seeds in the spring who reaps a harvest in Autumn...

I heed not

I heed not that my earthly lot
Hath little of earth in it--
That years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute:--
I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer by.
Edgar Allan Poe

Give up

"Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you."
Tennessee Williams

Forsaken

"All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken" ~ Thomas Wolfe

Power

"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."~Louis Armstrong

The miracle of Woman

"We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities / courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning / whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage." ~ Jean Baudrillard

Love.........

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -
I have shudder'd at it.
I shudder no more.
I could be martyr'd for my religion
Love is my religion
And I could die for that.
I could die for you.
~ by John Keats ~

I'd like to run away
From you,
But if you didn't come
And find me ...
I would die.
~ by Shirley Bassey ~

Smile

No man or woman is worth your tears and once you find one who is they wont make you cry.

Sunshine

"Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world."~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Woman

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.~Margaret Fuller

Self Worth

This image really defines the true meaning of "a shadow of one's self". As the person walks towards the light the shadow becomes elongated and deformed, looking less and less like the person it's supposed to represent. Light is an interesting concept in that it can either define you or enlighten you. However, I think this image really challenges that concept in a positive manner. Unlike Peter Pan one can not hide from their shadow into a drawer and simply move into the light of Never Never Land to stay young forever. Although, one is able to have hope that moving to the light will bring some happiness. I think this is really expressed with in the photograph as the person looks both hesitant and confident in walking towards the light. While the body language is saying one thing the shadow is saying another. While the light becomes more intense and as the person moves closer towards it, the shadow becomes longer and increasingly distant. The composition of the photograph also allows for the full effect of this, the cars ahead and the strip of concrete on the left hand side to give a sense of perspective.

Creative

"Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The road to happiness

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Rain

The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency. ~Susan Allen Toth

9-11

"Sept. 11 01, New York"
While the shocking unfolding events of Sept. 11, 2001
stunned the media and the world,
thin crisp pure clouds of a morning sky
embraced intense fire and smoke of hate.
And within
the unseen world...
Angelic hosts ran to and fro
helping thousands of confused souls
merge towards a place called heaven,
aided by selfless Fire Fighter,
Police and EMS workers,
with wings of gold.
Whist a
survivor,
stunned and dazed
looks away
as if in a haze.
But then by grace
there came a break,
America! America!
God Shed His Light On Thee!
She turned,
and in an instant
the tears dried from her eyes
and thought...
Perhaps some how and somewhere
beyond the vision of darkness
the unlearned
ignorant
will understand
that life is more precious than death,
and that love is more powerful than hate.

Temptation

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. ~Mark Twain

Human Being

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."~Albert Einstein

Hard Work

“You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.”~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy