Month: January 2012

Quote of the Day – January 23 2012

“You can’t cross the sea merely by staring at the water”
–Rabindranath Tagore

For too long I have stood here, looking out, knowing that one day i need venture forth one more time and journey not only in the inner way that I’ve grown so good at but externally as well. Each moment the adventure awaits yet which of us has the courage to take that first step? If we speak honestly we admit that each moment has been part of the journey and this latest step yet another in line yet why do some steps seem so much more difficult than others? Yet very often those are the ones most worth taking. Part of it is also acknowledging where and who we are without resistance. Only by doing this can we get to where we’re going. Namaste, G

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Flying through Strange Landscapes by G A Rosenberg

Entering a New Dimension by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 22 2012

“We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art… Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace. ”
–Carl Jung

I would like to just be with my thoughts and feelings. Do I mean be like the eye in the hurricane,calmly fixed in the centre while all my thoughts and feelings dance around me. Who knows what magic might spring up? I can journey with my wildest imaginings without worry that judgement could curtail it. I could be wrathful, lustful, beatific, blissful without opposition sometimes all at once. Ah that I may have the grace to find myself perceiving from the view of the witness, just on occasion, to not live from my past or for my future but present, fully present in the now. Namaste, G

A word on tonight’s pictures: Both of these came from dancing with a series of 3-4 brush strokes and seeing what I could make of them-complicated simplicity as it were,

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Primitive Owl by G A Rosenberg

Glow Play by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 21 2012

“Loving knowledge, understanding what knowledge is is a whole different thing than gaining knowledge.”
— Michael Tsarion

He goes on to say that gaining knowledge for specific needs is easy. I can relate to this quite a bit. I love gaining knowledge, learning new things, new factoids, pieces of the puzzle. I may put things together in strange ways connecting sky to grass to stars in a mosaic like way but even then i can learn from patterns that emerge or at least keep myself and occasionally others amused. These days, amusement feels like a much needed commodity.

a little doggerel for tonight:

One needs no excuse for seducing the muse
Self expressions the proof and we’re raising the roof
beyond limits we move doing things that we love
creating the existence we crave with persistence.

Namaste, G

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Om Fields by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 20 2012

“When you’re touched by magic, nothing’s ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They’re too busy, or they just don’t hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.”
— Charles de Lint

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The View From the Window in My Mind by G A Rosenberg

Infinity by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 19 2012

“The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.”
–Robert Anton Wilson

I envy the ones who know. I find that level of conviction amazing and perhaps on some level intimidating as all get out. Faith can and does move mountains. It adds charisma and of course far too often it keeps one in a box. It may be a box with room for expansion but still the borders can be felt. “Reality ends here. Anything beyond this line will be considered False. If you start believing what’s false or even considering it anything CAN and WILL happen. Here there be DRAGONS”
Yet without people refusing to believe in the borders of the box, who question their certainty, what new can ever be discovered? In an infinite universe, more always remains. So perhaps, even if conviction can not be counted among my strengths, at this point, I’ll still do ok. Namaste, G

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DNA Playground by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 18 2012

“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”
― Vincent van Gogh

I find myself contemplating the above quote and deriving meaning. Isn’t quite a bit of music cynical, skeptical and containing the disdain that I believe Van Gogh referred to by humbug. Music tho seems to have the ability of exorcising as well as evoking these qualities. When we put our hearts into what we sing , we put them on display if only to ourselves and the gods of song (to put a gratuitous Leonard Cohen reference in as well). Cynicism doesn’t seem to last long when displayed openly for any length of time. It seems to be a thing of the moment. When we live musically, we live artistically and perhaps more naturally. Namaste, G

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Heart-Felt Spirals by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 16 2012

“In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.”

                    –Douglas Hofstadter

 

Cool,  It’s a day for being self-referential rather than thoughtful. It kind of fits, I seem to be fighting the flu and tomorrow my son turns thirteen and I say this with pride, awe, admiration and perhaps a touch of trepidation.

CONTEST WINNER

Last week I decided to try something new.  I set up a contest for people viewing my art from December to win a signed print of the picture they liked the most. I had around ten entries and chose the winner by a super-scientific ballot. (I wrote down the contestants and their picture and had Zev pick a number between 1 and 10) . The Winner is Neo Gnostica whom I will send out the picture as soon as i get his information. Thanks everyone who participated. If there are requests, this may become a monthly drawing. Namaste, G

 

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Hare by G A Rosenberg

 

Quote of the Day – January 14 2012

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

— Bruce Lee

So many people I know, myself included find forgiving others  to be relatively easy. Sometimes letting go of the hurt can be a lot more difficult. What about forgiving ourselves? In the past I have put so much effort into covering up my mistakes rather than admitting them that I totally lost site of something key. When I cover up a mistake I’ve made, I keep myself in the mistake, and  it becomes almost impossible to forgive myself. When I admit to  to myself (and almost always that first admission feels necessary) and then others, I can get past it and forge a new reality where that mistake no longer happens. Also the mistake of dishonesty starts getting cleared up to. But deception of self and others will be a topic of another quote and day. Namaste, G

Tomorrow, I will announce the winner of the December Art contest.

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BirdsFlying in a Strangely Angled Sky by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 14 2012

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”

–Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In my life, I have experienced as many of those events as possible–meeting the stranger in ourself has to be one of the coolest feelings there is. To discover new potentialities in ourselves, new talents emerging is an amazing feeling like discovering a new colour and the range seems endless. We can be and are heroes not only as Bowie suggests for one day but for every day, heroes to the person we were before and students of the people whom we will become. Namaste, G

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Space Pod Returning Home by G A Rosenberg