Tag: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Quote of the Day – September 11 2012

“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.” -from the Fox-”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

If not for words, there would be more touching and even more important perhaps more feeling.
If not for words, so many less misunderstanding and perhaps so many less attempts to try.
If not for words, we could see and hear so much more.
Blessed silence with a musical background — all theatre would be pantomime and ballet
we’d share a common language without words and never need consult a dictionary
If not for words, you’d know me more through my art.

 

Funny, this internet is based on verbal if not spoken vocabulary yet more gets mis-said than said and misheard
Still it will get better, we’ll shovel out the shit in our communication rooms until we can look in each other’s eyes and know.
Blessings, G

 

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If the Night Falls on a Lonely Planet, Will the Tree Hear a Sound by G A Rosenberg

 

Reversed Psychodelia by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – August 28 2012

“You – you alone will have the stars as no one else has them…In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night…You – only you – will have stars that can laugh.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito

 

I consider myself fortunate to have stars that laugh, cry and love…each one lit by people who have touched my being at one time or another. Aleister Crowley channeled that “Every man and woman is a star” and so I believe that they are.. Stellar beings who light up our sky and who’s orbit we are fortunate enough to be able to find ourselves in for moments or lifetimes…

The above may sound corny to some. But still it seems in our day to day existence it becomes so easy to look down on people, suspect their motives and otherwise belittle them if only in our own minds…but if we can see them and ourselves as stars burning brightly through the heavens then even the ones who irritate us, the ones who piss us off continuously become something magnificent

It might not make it easier to like them or what they represent but it lends perspective.

Blessings, G

 

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Last Dance by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – July 12 2012

“We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.”
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery

So once I have agreed on the importance of being honest to myself and in my expression how do I define myself? Am I my gender or my sexual preference? What does that mean anyway? If I like other men does that mean I group myself automatically with everyone else who prefers the same sex and like what they like and act with the same mannerisms? What if I occasionally like looking or being with women? Does that give me another set of rules?

Am I the religion I was born into? Does what I believe make me better / different /chosen / more worthy of being saved than anyone else? How about where I was born? Wow people seem to think all kinds of things about others based on geography.

Sorry, Neither my religion, my nationality or my sex or preference can or will define me. They may give me perspective but I know what a trap that can be. Perspective limits and so from my point of view, we can only benefit from seeing life from as many different perspectives as possible. I guess in a way you can say I collect boxes tho I don’t take very good care of them and I find any one dissolving under me after awhile.
Blessings, G

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Doorway? by G A Rosenberg

Samurai Reflects by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – April 5 2012

“How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on”
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We know ourselves to be part of a greater whole and at times we feel it. We cannot know  what it is to be that whole yet still we exist both sovereign and part. And still we flow

Blessings, G

(Below is the start of a story I was playing around with to go with tonight’s picture. It needs some reworking tho. I am starting to understand better what it is to write. )

She stands at the entrance to the temple
I was told I may be allowed in
Three questions to be asked and answered
Honesty counts
but then it always has..

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Priestess In the New Temple by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – February 1 2012

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Lately I have been deliberating with myself about how best to use this space. Oh I love having the quote at the top of almost every entry and my latest art at the bottom. It’s this chewy gooey centre of which I am unsure. Of late I’ve been using the quotes as a springboard to talk about whatever comes to mind. About the only condition I give myself is that I write at least 100 words and hopefully not write anything that others will find too boring. If I have any new poetry to share that gets thrown in as well. I’ve heard few complaints and occasionally I get a thoughtful comment for which I feel much appreciation.
I’ve been thinking I might throw in some stories of my past. Either my days hitchhiking or various spiritual practices and groups I’ve found myself a part of at various times in my life. I believe the statue of limitations have run out on most of the stories so that I can share them with impunity. I do worry about boring any potential audience I may have tho.
Another possibility would be to share some tarot card meanings or poetry. I’ve done that before and people seem to enjoy it. I figure I could mix it up a bit, Occasionally feature an astrological aspect, an i ching hexagram, a sephiroth, a deity, basically one of the many spiritual symbols that we’ve come up with throughout time that seem to have resonances or echoes in many cultures.
Possibilites, I see the ocean and long for it. Let’s see what kind of boat we can build. Namaste, G

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Free Falling 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

Quote of the Day – November 6 2011

Two quotes tonight from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ‘s Little Prince

“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart…”

“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure… And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, ‘Yes, the stars always make me laugh!’”
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Love Moon by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – October 20 2011

‎”A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All it takes is a bit of vision. If each being was seen by someone with vision, we would all be known as the radiant beings that we are. In my life, I have met very few people whom I found ugly or unattractive, usually it takes perhaps just one quality to make each person shine… -g a rosenberg

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Calling Forth the Storm by G A Rosenberg

Visions from the Raw Shack by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – February 12 2010

“Night, the beloved.  Night, when words fade and things come alive.  When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again.  When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. “

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Coming Night by G A Rosenberg