Want or fear

Robert Motherwell

"As long as the ego runs your life, most of your thoughts, emotions, and actions arise from desire and fear. In relationships you then either want or fear something from the other person."

- Eckhart Tolle

Just as I am

Artist Candace Ceslow

Best work

Artist Charisma Panchapakesan

"Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert."-Frank Ghery

A scam

Artist itsallinsideus

Want to become happy? Stop taking your thoughts seriously. Once you go deep enough you'll smile to negative thoughts, they are a scam.

Call it fate

Joan Miró-Nu, nude, 1926

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

Carl Jung

To be yourself

Artist Julia Hacker

To be beautiful means to be yourself.

You don't need to be accepted by others.

You need to accept yourself.

Thich Nhat Hanh

All blade

Artist Eelena Gual

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Nothing

Artist Danielle Joy Mckinney

I belong everywhere.

Nothing is off limits to me.

Nothing.

Light

Artist A.G. Photographe

Not even Brahma

Poet Bhartrihari

There is no better than here

Artist Mary L. Peng

Rules for being human handed down from ancient Sanskrit

1. You will receive a body

2. You will learn lessons

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons

4. A lesson will be repeated until it is learned

5. Learning lessons does not end

6. 'There' is no better than 'here'

7. Others are merely mirrors of you

8. What you make of your life is up to you

9. Life is exactly what you think it is

10. Your answers lie inside you

11. You will forget all of this

12. You can remember it whenever you

Need to

Artist Juliano Mazzuchini

THE MORE YOU FEEL YOU NEED TO FIX SOMETHING, THE MORE YOU NEED TO NOT.

Unformed

Artist Mars Black

Sleeping vision

We are transparent

not full of stardust

We are light

part of, included, and are

We are as what is

Shapeless

Unformed

We are not anything

But all.

                                  D.G.

Emptiness

Artist Hiroshi Nagai

In Survival Mode:

Busying their minds so much that they can't see their gifts.

Instead of:

Letting themselves sit in the emptiness of not knowing so they can come through.

Tired

Artist Marcin Ryczek

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.

Langston Hughes

Step back

Artist Yosigo

Today I surrender my goals and plans to the care of the Universe.

I offer up my agenda and accept spiritual guidance.

I trust that there is a plan far greater than mine.

I know that where there once was lack and limitation, there are spiritual solutions and creative ideas.

I step back and let love lead the way.

The surface

Artist Fausto Melotti Luna (Moon) ca. 1967

THE SURFACE OF YOUR LIFE MUST CRACK IF A DEEPER TRUTH IS EVER GOING TO COME FORTH.

The Patience of Ordinary Things

Artist Albina bougartchev

It is a kind of love, is it not?
How the cup holds the tea,
How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,
How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes
Or toes. How soles of feet know
Where they’re supposed to be.
I’ve been thinking about the patience
Of ordinary things, how clothes
Wait respectfully in closets
And soap dries quietly in the dish,
And towels drink the wet
From the skin of the back.
And the lovely repetition of stairs.
And what is more generous than a window?

Pat Schneider

Peace

Symbol of Hope Sliman Mansour

 
"This Christmas season finds us a rather bewildered human race. We have neither peace within nor peace without. Everywhere paralyzing fears harrow people by day and haunt them by night. Our world is sick with war; everywhere we turn we see its ominous possibilities. And yet, my friends, the Christmas hope for peace and goodwill toward all men can no longer be dismissed as a kind of pious dream of some utopia. If we don't have good will toward men in this world, we will destroy ourselves by the misuse of our own instruments and our own power. Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete.
 
"There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the very destructive power of modern weapons of warfare eliminates even the possibility that war may any longer serve as a negative good. And so, if we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has a right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war and so let us this morning explore the conditions for peace. Let us this morning think anew on the meaning of that Christmas hope: 'Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men.'  And as we explore these conditions, I would like to suggest that modern man really go all out to study the meaning of nonviolence, its philosophy and its strategy.
 
"We have experimented with the meaning of nonviolence in our struggle for racial justice in the United States, but now the time has come for man to experiment with nonviolence in all areas of human conflict, and that means nonviolence on an international scale.
 
"Now let me suggest first that if we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone; no nation can live alone, and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in this world. Now the judgment of God is upon us, and we must either learn to live together as brothers [and sisters] or we are all going to perish together as fools.
 
"Yes, as nations and individuals, we are interdependent. ... It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality. Did you ever stop to think that you can't leave for your job in the morning without being dependent on most of the world?
 
"... I have a dream that one day men will rise up and come to see that they are made to live together as brothers [and sisters]. ... I still have a dream today that one day every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill will be made low, the rough places will be made smooth and the crooked places straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. I still have a dream that with this faith we will be able to adjourn the councils of despair and bring new light into the dark chambers of pessimism. With this faith we will be able to speed up the day when there will be peace on earth and goodwill toward men. It will be a glorious day, the morning stars will sing together, and the sons of God will shout for joy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr., A Christmas Sermon on Peace, Christmas Eve 1967
 

Applaud

Artist Anthony Solano

Fill your life with people who applaud your positive thoughts, feelings, and actions; who encourage you toward more and better; who know how to praise the good and the beautiful.