Month: September 2015

Self-Created

 

All these people you are concerned about,
Did they create you?
— al Ghazāli

 

Self created
mind blown
Shall I become
the image that you all see?
You each describe me
as blind men describe an elephant
mistaking the part you know
for the whole.

 

Self created
unchanged
by the demands
towards conformity
I am too busy
discovering myself to live
up to the expectations
of others

 

Self created
yet inspired
that you care
enough to see me at all
perhaps in time
you’ll see beyond the mold
you’ve cast
and it may set us free
— G A Rosenberg

 

Blessings, G

 

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Vision of the LamiaVision of the Lamia by G A Rosenberg

 

RollingRolling by G A Rosenberg

 

Jumping

 

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
— Jean-Luc Godard

 

On the edge of not-self
I jump into the void
dissolving into being bliss
that lasts no-time forever
soon i will return
in purer form
Identity renewed
still on the edge
but the opposite side
of self-renewal
ready for new beginnings
returned from abyss journey
— G A Rosenberg

 

Blessings, G

 

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Healing CastHealing Cast by G A Rosenberg

 

Strange AquariumStrange Aquarium by G A Rosenberg

 

What We Know, Who We Are

 

“A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.”
— Eliezer Yudkowsky

 

What would you trade for knowledge? Would you be willing to give up what you think you know? Are you able to admit that everything you believe is at best partially right and is in all probability mainly wrong? Are you what you know? Many people seem to believe they are and when challenged they fight for their assumptions as if their very identity itself is being challenged. It is only by surrendering ignorance that we can attain knowledge. What we have learned up until now has to continually be smashed on the rocks of life’s experience in order for us to learn more. This can be devastating if we believe we are what we know. Most times I tend to believe I am more defined by my ignorance than my knowledge.
Blessings, G

 

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<h5 style="text-align:center;"Energized2Energized by G A Rosenberg

 
<h5 style="text-align:center;"Spatial AnomalysSpatial Anomalies by G A Rosenberg

 

Cry of the Restless Youth

 

“But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.”
― Kahlil Gibran

 

Let’s move
Let’s Go
Invoke the Spirits
Use the force
We’ll invent the purpose
we just need to…
we just have to move
Pursued from the inside out
we roam free
as we run to stay free
Avoiding traps
including of the self…
we chase our tales
and we tell our tails
to stay behind
Chaos is our natural state
yet we resist even that
We are the wild ones
we are the young
and we will prevail
as long as we keep moving
— G A Rosenberg

 

Blessings, G

 

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In the Cave's Dim LightIn the Cave’s Dim Light by G A Rosenberg

 

Patterned ExistancePatterned Existence by G A Rosenberg

 

Restlessness and Recycled Art

 

“Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun’s melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.”
― Hermann Hesse

 

Restless visions
of places only imagined
take me away
from the meaningless drama around me.
So much matter and so little matters
yet others seem to live for drama
I live for explorations
trying to scrape meaning
from the pieces scattered across
lines a thousand miles across.
Is there meaning in your body next to mine
or in the stars
or in the places you dare not go?
Words seem to echo
drops in the silence well
yet my restless soul moves on,
— G A Rosenberg

Blessings, G

 

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Night in the Bamboo ForestNight in the Bamboo Forest by G A Rosenberg

 

ForestalForestal by G A Rosenberg

 

Sweet Mystery

 

“Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?”
― Charles de Lint

 

It’s funny you know. So many people out there claiming to have the answers. Even if they don’t have the hubris (or the stupidity) to claim to know it all, they know the one true path to find out. They know what is to come and that it is coming soon. Just follow their methods and you can know too. Yet all or most of these ways are different. Either a little different or in some cases almost polar opposites. You pay your money and you take your choices.
Maybe tho, the right path for us to follow is whatever path we’re on. Studying what calls us and learning and living what and how we can. Maybe its ok not to know but to appreciate the mystery of life. Yes the world is changing and we need to change but isn’t change the constant? Perhaps there will be some cataclysm that is to come and we need to be ready or perish. If perishing is possible. Perhaps we are on the brink of the most positive transformation that the human race has yet to see. All of these possibilities and more are out there. Each of us will know as we get there and for me that is ok. Part of what has always kept me going is curiosity as to what can happen next. May we all grow in wonder and embrace the mystery.
Blessings, G

 

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Transformational SpaceTransformational Space by G A Rosenberg

 

Fractal Landscape With SkullsFractal Landscape With Skulls by G A Rosenberg