Quote of the Day – March 27 2012

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
–Mahatma Gandhi

 

This reminds me of the Richard Bachman quote, “Argue for your limitations and sure enough they’re yours” It seems for so long I’ve told myself that I could not do certain things and worse yet believed others that I could not do them that I never really tried.
Three years ago I would never have believed that I would be consistently creating visual art that people liked. I had some talent with Photoshop but saw it as an extension of my computer skills not as anything visual.
Then I started feeling some awakenings of consciousness. Then I started hanging out and talking to some very cool people who encouraged my writing efforts and told me that self-expression was of great importance. I started meditating more and creating more. I didn’t think much of it. I have always done some writing and now I had more to express than I had in years. I even started making youtube videos. Out of this came more amazing friendships, more roads to exploration of myself, the universe and our interconnectedness and more need for self expression.
One day in order to avoid writing an essay, I decided to start a new project. I had always practiced meditation and reading with the tarot. What would it be like to do a poem or haiku for each of the cards. I would do one a night, choosing the card at random for 78 nights, just to see if I could do it. This was my project in 2009. You can find some examples here (http://grosenberg.wordpress.com/page/100/ ) and the pages surrounding it.

The project was completed successfully and then I started considering if, properly illustrated this collection of haikus might make an interesting book.  I decided to start using my Photoshop skills to start doing collage work. I surprised myself by actually being quite good at it.  It satisfies a need of self-expression in me like few things I have done before and that some of my work has touch others amazes me in ways I never thought possible.

If I had continued telling myself that I couldn’t draw or I couldn’t do visual art than none of that would have been possible. What other ways have I limited myself  by never tryings? What ways do you do it? More and more I believe it is our destiny to self-actualize in as many ways as possible and very little is impossible.

Blessings, G

 

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Heart Shine by G A Rosenberg

4 thoughts on “Quote of the Day – March 27 2012”

  1. I’ve been hearing more and more about that whole “being able to create your own reality” thing lately from a few difference sources now. There’s even a quantum physicist from Oregon who has been lecturing about it for a while now. Quantum Activist I think his little “movement” is..

    1. More and more I’ve been seeing how reality can conform to what we wish good and bad, of course what many who follow ‘the secret’ fail to realize is that there are other influences in the work, the law of karma among them, Thanks for commenting

      1. Not to vandalize your blog with a bunch of my stupid words…but since you brought it up…I’m really on the fence with that ‘the secret.’ I watched it, then I watched the Quantum Activist right afterwards, and at first I thought the secret was just a bunch of bunk…but…man, I dunno…you know? A part of me wants to dismiss it outright, but there’s a little part of me that can actually see it being somewhat grounded in reality.

        1. Not a problem, your words are far from stupid and I agree with them. I feel that there is a Law of Attraction, just that it is not the only universal law in town 🙂
          There are other laws that mitigate it such as the Law of Karma. There are certain things we need to have in our life right now (even difficulties) in order to progress and increase our understanding and compassion for others.

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