Month: November 2012

Quote of the Day – November 11 2012

“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure ”
― Joseph Campbell

Funny, the first part of the heroic journey that Joseph Campbell described better than almost anyone else is the refusal of the adventure. Almost every great quest  (Star Wars, Alice, the Wizard of OZ, Aladin etc) started with the hero refusing the reality of what they were experiencing and saying no to the quest. Of course in all of the above cases, reality comes back too strongly to be denied and the no becomes a more heartfelt yes. As belief and confidence in oneself grows, it becomes more and more heartfelt… What would happen if we had that confidence in the first place? What would happen if we acted as if we did? As a friend and I used to say every night before we went out “Here’s to adventure” Here’s to knowing that we will win through and experiencing what we have to experience.  Here’s to being open to whatever comes..What a long strange trip its been and it continues
Blessings, G

 

 

Click on images to see full-sized

 

Echoes of a Distant Shore by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – November 10 2012

“There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.”
― Frederick William Faber

 

Ambition can be a strange thing. I seldom think of myself as ambitious because while there are things i may wish for in the moment, there is very little I want or strive for.  Perhaps tho, being or becoming this person with the capacity for locating and transmitting joy truly seems like a worthwhile endeavour and a challenge worthy of facing.

Blessings, G

Click on image to see full-sized

The Magician in the Abstract (Tarot Trump I) by G A Rosenberg

 

Through the Fire by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – November 9 2012

“What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?”
― Jack Kerouac

Today I was a freedom fighter, standing up for the rights of my chosen family against the despots occupying my land. Today I reached a new breakthrough at the meditation retreat and wondered if I would ever have to go back. Today someone put flowers on my grave. Today i sold a record amount. Today I crossed another day off the calendar and realized that in three months my time was up and I would be released. Today I invoked gods and goddesses, understood and steeped myself in ignorance…So many versions of me existing just a ripple away, Tho all in their own way are growing in awareness and understanding no matter how hard they fight it. Each of them explore some other meaning and perhaps one of them is you.
Blessings, G

Click on images to see full-sized

Pensive by G A Rosenberg

Universal Eye by G A Rosenberg

 

Pensive Inversion by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – November 8 2012

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

— Bertrand Russell

 

For me, this quote reflects a basic axiom that’s almost as important as “Shared joy is increased and shared pain lessened”. I can’t help it. I find people and what they’re into to be fascinating and almost anything can catch my interest enough to learn something about it.  Everything has its place in the puzzle and what I have trouble with may just teach me about myself. Still trying to figure out what the fact that I seem totally mystified by my resistance to the charms of Honey Boo Boo might teach me about myself and still am not clear on exactly what a Kardasian is…. but then few people carry the theme songs to as many 1960’s and 70’s tv shows as I do.
I love being open to the universe and have found more and more that it reciprocates.
Blessings, G

 

Click on images to see full-size

 

Orchestrating by G A Rosenberg

 

Gothic by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – November 7 2012

“I won’t tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world’s voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!”
― Oscar Wilde

Sometimes fortune smiles upon us. Here, because of the electoral nonsense happening down below in the land of my birth, I found the temptation to find a quote that talked about choice to be compelling. Luckily I found one that allows me to bypass discussing something that anyone sane has grown tired of long before this point. Of course as Oscar says, the things in the world matter or matter as much as we are willing to let them and of late, tho I render onto the world what is due and even feign interest, its amazing how few things I give matter to in my head. The kindness that one person shows another matters. Every instance of love and caring.. Every person going beyond their own heads, transcending who they were before in order to either help others, become something new or both, that matters.
Which sucker crazy enough to want to run a nation wins or what’s on television or what so and so is doing to such and such, not so much….
Blessings, G

Click on images to see full-size
Opalescent Goddess by G A Rosenberg

 

Exploding Purple Mandala by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – November 6 2012

“You haven’t yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior’s way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability–to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I’ve shown you by example that a warrior’s life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior’s sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.”
— Dan Millman

 

Most of the time when we refer to someone as being lucky in love, we mean that they have had happy and successful relationships. Perhaps and regrettably the phrase is used more often than not in negation, talking about someone’s lack of love.  Yet to me every chance I have to love brings fortune especially if I can enter into it with little or no expectations, especially that of having my love reciprocated.

What an amazing gift of the universe, this ability to feel the essentiality of another person and to truly value them. The more we can love, the more we can appreciate the gift that the other person is and the more people whom we can love the greater the gift.

With deepest gratitude, blessings and love, G

 

Lost in an Opalescent Landscape by G A Rosenberg

 

Braving the Elements by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – November 5 2012

“Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator”
–Alex Grey, The Inner Artist

 

Letting go, releasing all my bullshit and giving in…letting it flow.. yes…so often I find myself trying to drive and navigate when it doesn’t matter where i go as long as the expression is true…so much needs to come out still..buried passions and shadow stuff that even as I express I tuck away ever playing a game of peak a boo with my own awareness. How lame is that? or if not lame, tame, we tame ourselves, make of our inner spirits the domesticated pets of our own ego and why? to maintain an inner core of what we tell ourselves is sanity when what we really need is madness…can’t we trust ourselves to come down again, trust the guidance of our spirits and that greater Creator? Why can’t we just let go and let God, the inner God that we all are?
Blessings, G

 

Click on images to see full-size

 

 

Journey Through the Mind’s Eye by G A Rosenberg

Monochrome Crystal Mandala by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – November 4 2012

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
― Alan Moore

Perhaps some of us tell our stories by living them.. Others by pantomime or satire. Perhaps everything we say or do becomes our story even in the smallest of chapters, the map that comes the closes to being the territory yet never quite reaches it. After all I feel pretty sure by this point that what and whom i am goes well beyond this life. This life yet one story within a far greater volume. A story I gladly tell even if Shakespeare’s Macbeth is right that it is told by an idiot and in the end has little meaning. Nah, I put greater credence into stories than that. Each one has some meaning if only that it is a snowflake, unique and beautiful.
Blessings, G

Click on images to see full-size
Trump XX -Judgement by G A Rosenberg

 

Mandala of the Wands by G A Rosenberg