WHEN WE ALIGN ourselves with that higher will, we allow ourselves to become an instrument of that will.                   SWAMI RAMANANDA THE ONLY way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.                            … Read more

ADVENTURE & EXCITEMENT ARE the two things missing from civilization. Danger keeps you on your toes.  JIM BRIDWELL         THE KEY TO CHANGE IS TO LET GO OF FEAR.  ROSANNE CASH               TO SIMPLY WAKE UP EACH MORNING A BETTER PERSON THAN WHEN I WENT TO … Read more

         DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF YOU FELT MOST SECURE.                                          MEISTER ECKHART SO THEREFORE I DEDICATE MYSELF, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my sufferance, my loneliness, my … Read more

Martin Amis: Donald Trump: “Hammily scowling out from under an omelet of makeup and tanning cream & has a little woodland creature that sleeps on his head.” WE CAN EASILY FORGIVE a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.  PLATO GOOD ACTION are a … Read more

   IN THE FIRST PLACE GOD MADE IDIOTS. THAT WAS FOR PRACTICE. THEN HE MADE SCHOOL BOARDS.             MARK TWAIN THERE IS A SHORT PERIOD IN EVERYONE’S LIFE WHEN HIS CHARACTER IS FIXED FOREVER.    GEORGE ORWELL  YOU SHALL ALWAYS FIND what you created in your mind, FOR INSTANCE, A BENEVOLENT … Read more

       I DON’T TALK ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS. I TALK ABOUT INTERIORITY.                                                            KEN WILBER                 I TRY TO PICTURE … Read more

                             VERA KLEMENT–1929-2024–PAINTER–           TO ME EVERY PAINTING I MAKE IS EXTREMELY JOYOUS, EXTREMELY EXHILARATING. They recognize the nightmare but confirm rather than deny human life. Joanne Berens, a former student: VERA TAUGHT ME that a painter must … Read more

THE ONE WHO FOLLOWS THE CROWD WILL USUALLY GET NO FURTHER THAN TH CROWD. TH EONE WHO WALKS ALONE IS LIKELY TO FIND HIMSELF IN PLACES NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN.  ALBERT EINSTEIN THE SUN had gotten near to the tops of the far mountains and the light scalloped their broken edges, spilling toward us a … Read more

NO TELEVISION SET that’s made, no screen that you can find, can compare with that of radio, the theater of the mind. Where the pictures are so vivid, so spectacular and real, that there isn’t any contest or at least how I feel.                       CHARLES … Read more

     FROM THESE TIMES, I CAN GIVE SIMPLE ADVICE: DON’T BE AFRAID.                                               LEV RUBINSTEIN 1947-2024                  LIFE IS WORTH LIVING WHEN YOU ARE GIVING. FEDERICO … Read more