Quote of the Day – May 11 2012

““The art of living…is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

Each time I left or someone else has. Each time I thought I had it together only to smash on the rocks, each time I hit a new low in despair or thought I had, one thing has kept me going. Life has been so strange, so unpredictable that I just can’t wait to see what will happen next. It’s not the cliche that each day can be the start of something new and different, its that each moment can be. Something precious that can’t and won’t come again. All it takes is a willingness to leave the past behind. That can be a rough one because sometimes the past is not finished with us nor us with it.

I don’t see myself as clinging to the past but the thing about travelling in spirals is that we come around again, if not revisiting an old moment at least gaining new perspective on it. It’s amazing sometimes the things we can learn to forgive ourselves for at least if we are willing to forgive the others involved as well.
Blessings G

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Phoenix Mandala by G A Rosenberg

Greetings From a Fractal Universe by G A Rosenberg

Quotes of the Day – May 10 2012

What is your most valuable secret? What forbidden art do you practice? What taboo dream do you draw on?
–Rob Breszny

A friend of mine had this as his Face Book status today. To say it started thoughts and emotions flowing would be an understatement.
What is my most valuable secret…

Everything I say, every belief and notion that I currently entertain or hold dear may be wrong. I believe absolute objective truth exists but I also believe that it is too large to be contained within our comprehension. I get one view, my perspective shifts and I get another, sometimes very different. Each a snapshot of one time/space moment of reality, each a part of the elephant if you will.

What forbidden art do I practice?

 I practice the art of falling with style. As long as I fall nine hundred times and pick myself up nine hundred and one. I figure I am doing ok .

What taboo dream do I draw on?

Universal Abundance…

Please feel free to leave comments telling me your answers 🙂

Blessings, G

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Green Forest Mandala by G A Rosenberg

Wheel Mandala on Black Velvet by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – May 9 2012

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
— Arthur Rimbaud

What would it be like if we could experience life with the openness and innocence of a child? Isn’t that a goal to aspire towards? And yet …
Our childhoods all too often get ripped away from us. Way too early we find out that the heroes and villains often exchange hats and that nothing is wholly one thing. Would becoming a child again mean that we would continuously have that experience of lost innocence?

I used to believe that innocence was the price we paid for knowledge and that it was a worthwhile trade. Yet, what does knowledge bring us but a calcified view of existence? Once we know something we lose the ability to see what we know as something else. It is only with openness that we can truly experience the true flexibility of being. If we understand that what we know may not be the final word on the subject then we can come to perceive the knowledge and understanding of others. Are we willing to part with the knowledge that we paid such a heavy price for? What if we could trade our knowledge for discernment, the ability to hold both our knowledge and that of others in balance and choose a new knowing. Perhaps that is the genius that Rimbaud speaks of, the genius of discernment.
Blessings, G

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Rainbow Spiral Mind by G A Rosenberg

Eye Beams by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – May 8 2012

‎”I acknowledge the privilege of being alive
In a human body at this moment,
Endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts,
And the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

It is the prayer of my innermost being
To realize my supreme identity
In the liberated play of consciousness,
The Vast Expanse.
Now is the moment,
Here is the place of Liberation.”
–Alex Grey from The Vast Expanse

Since there is not much I can add to the above quote, I will go a bit stream of consciousness and ramble on for a bit. Lately I have been contemplating and discussing with friends a bit what blocks me from going as deep as I can with my writing. Why can I hit a certain level of honesty and sharing and then I veer away sharply? I’ve been circling around this question for awhile and am starting to pinpoint some answers.

Part of it is fear and yes I still have areas of fear that I have not fully integrated yet–I emulate courageousness well and then I stop at the point it touches. my life. Still I have reached new levels of self-honesty. When I tell a story from my past, I might suddenly gain greater insight into what its all about. Having that insight changes my story and thus changes my past. When my past changes, how do I maintain my present. That sounds melodramatic but still feels true, like the glass edges of a wound rubbing

Part of the issue feels like one of safety. This blog is a safe place in which I can speak or so I tell myself. But then i find different levels of safety, at times putting a condom of sorts over my exposed language. It is a prayer of my innermost being to express itself as I express as a human being in this most exciting of times. May it be so.
Blessings, G

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Audience by G A Rosenberg

Undersea Cross by G A Rosenberg

May Art Contest – Updated Gallery 2012

Art Gallery 2012 has been updated with the pictures from April which means its time for this month’s

ART CONTEST

Go to the Art Gallery 2012 page and look through the pictures from April

Leave a comment below telling me which picture is your favourite

Out of the entries received one will be selected and the winner gets a signed print of their favourite

Versatile Blogger Award? Awesome!!!

Boomer Ontario of Apocalypse Art has nominated / given me the Versatile Blogger award

Thank you very much. Now I guess I tell seven things about myself and nominate 7 other people.

1) I have an awesome partner and together ten years ago (this past weekend) we adopted an amazingly creative talented kid. (He is the red head who finds his way into my pictures from time to time)

2) I work as a computer consultant and a caregiver for our foster daughter who has been with us for eight years

3) Politically I am a libertarian and have been debating starting a second blog  showcasing some of my political views

4) I am finding coming up with seven things that I haven’t  touched on in this blog before to be rather difficult

5) I have been reading and studying tarot for the past 30 years. My favourite decks currently are Legacy of the Divine by Ciro Marchetti

6) My favourite artists are Salvador Dali, Alex Grey and MC Escher  tho Vincent Van Gogh and Caravaggio are close behind

7)

I’ll leave the seventh blank to represent the things I still have to discover about myself 😉

OK  People whom I nominate and bestow the award upon:

1) Chief Writing Wolf – Truly versatile blogger with a combination of humour and facts of interest

2) Authentic Imperfection – Her writing and insights are always heartfelt, beautifully written and much appreciated

3) Adventures in American Writing  – A writer in the Kerouac Style.

4) The Possibility Magazine  – “The courage to BE resides in the God who arrives when God disappears; the ‘I’ that arrives when ‘I’ disappears.”

5) Palestine Rose – Art and poetry that will touch you

6) The Alternate Economy – Learn to Live in Love

7) Tetractys-Serpens-Pyramis– This guy takes the English Language, does  truly weird things to it and leaves it begging for more

Quote of the Day – May 7 2012

“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“You’re nuts!” She told me. “Totally strange, I never know what’s gonna come out of you”.
“I’m a Libra”, I replied “The most balanced sign.”
She just shook her head. In reality I misstated the truth. Well, besides the fact that the Sun being in Libra when I was born is just one of many influences in my chart. Libras aren’t the most balance sign but the ones who strive for balance the most. Sometimes I think it comes naturally. When things seem to be going too well in any one aspect of my life, I tend to find a way consciously or unconsciously to upset it in another. Note I said consciously not intentionally. I tend to have an intense curiosity about different viewpoints and have gone out of my way to understand different lifestyles by experiencing them from the inside. In my youth, this led to experimentation with religious cults, substances (tho oddly enough no drug ever attracted me enough to cause addiction tho a few I had to decide to stop), economic status and just about everything else I could try. Most of these ended, I wouldn’t say badly but definitively.
Blessings, G

Day and Night by G A Rosenberg

Mech Mandala by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – May 6 2012

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
― T.S. Eliot

Stillness…
mind keeps circling
stillness
until a thought comes along
centring
What was that about my dream last night?
clearing
Did he mean what I thought he did?
Ommmmmm
I’m sure I fed the dogs tonight
Ommmmmmm
breathing in and out
Ommmm
shoulder is itching

and so it goes..tho eventually if I let whatever wants to come up come up without fighting it…eventually I find myself stilling..the whole trick is to go with what comes…
Blessings, G

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Leopard Peace by G A Rosenberg

Slippery Lizard Mandala by G A Rosenberg