BE YOURSELF — BUT ALWAYS YOUR BETTER SELF. KARL G. MAESER
THESE I CAN PROMISE
I cannot promise you a life of sunshine;
I cannot promise riches, wealth or gold;
I cannot promise you an easy pathway
That leads away from change or growing old.
But I can promise all my heart’s devotion;
A smile to chase away your tears of sorrow;
A love that’s ever true and ever growing;
A hand to hold in yours through each tomorrow.
Mark Twain 1835-1910
All our thoughts and feelings arise from a mind that evolved eons ago.
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. Robert Cormier
MEDITATION IS NOT EVASION; IT IS A SERENE ENCOUNTER WITH REALITY.
The breath is what connects our body to our mind.
The intention isn’t to chase it away, hate it, worry about it to be frightened by it. So what exactly should you be doing concerning such thoughts and feelings? Simply acknowledging their presence.”
The seed of suffering in you may be strong but don’t wait until you have no more before allowing yourself to be happy.
“Breathing in I know anxiety is in me. Breathing out I smile to my anxiety.”
Thich Nhat Hanh “The Miracle of Mindfulness”
O.C.D. makes you intolerant to any amount of uncertainty.
NOTHING RISQUE, NOTHING GAINED. ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT
PAUL CEZANNE 1839-1906 FRENCH PAINTER
AN ART WHICH ISN’T BASED ON FEELING ISN’T AN ART AT ALL.
ART IS A HARMONY PARALEL WITH NATURE.
GENIUS IS THE ABILITY TO RENEW ONE’S EMOTIONS IN DAILY EXPERIENCE.
WE LIVE IN A RAINBOW OF CHAOS.
SHADOW is a color as light is but less brilliant;
light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
Drawing and color are not distinct,
everything in nature is colored.
AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH I HOPE TO BE SURPRISED. IVAN ILLICH
TRUE HAPPINESS IS NOT OUT THERE. TRUE HAPPINESS LIES WITHIN.
The more unknowable the mystery the more beautiful it is. David Lynch
ERNEST HOLMES 1887-1960 “The Science of Mind” “Thoughts are Things”
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there.
LIFE EXTERNALIZES AT THE LEVEL OF OUR THOUGHT.
BELIEVE AS THOUGH YOU ARE AND YOU WILL BE.
ALL LIMITATIONS ARE SELF-IMPOSED.
YOU HAVE DISCOVERED THE SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE.
FOLLOW THE INWARD GLEAM OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS YOU WILL ARRIVE.
You can attract only that which you mentally become
and feel yourself to be in reality.
THE ONLY LIFE YOU CAN HAVE IS THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT WITHIN.
PRACTICALLY the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.
THE EYES OF OTHERS OUR PRISONS; THEIR THOUGHTS OUR CAGES.
BOOKS ARE THE MIRRORS OF THE SOUL.
Blame it or praise it there is no denying the wild horse within us.
Virginia Woolf