Quote of the Day – September 20, 2012

“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe ”
— Marilyn Vos Savant

How much of your knowledge do you own? By owning of course i mean the same as Robert Heinlein meant by the term ‘Groking’ in his book Stranger in a Strange Land Do we espouse lines of thought merely rented…they sound good so we present them as conviction but we have yet to gain true understanding? Quite often I see people, including myself at times espousing and identifying with viewpoints they don’t fully Grok (own). When challenged, rather than being willing to look at another viewpoint which at the least will enable them to understand their own better they fight tooth and nail to avoid that critical thought.
Many people believe that everyone has their truth and that they are all equal. Is there a difference tho between true understanding and beliefs that we espose because they feel good to us?
Just a few questions rolling through my mind these days.
Blessings, G

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Rise of the Indigo 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 – March 17 2012

“The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being.”
–OSHO

When I was younger and reading everything in sight, I wanted to know as much as possible. “Fill me up” The subject matter did not matter. All I wanted was more knowledge. Then as I entered young adulthood I began to realize the futility of that ambition. Our knowledge was always opening up further and there will always be more to know.
At that point my questions became deeper. I wanted to understand. I wanted to understand our purpose for being. I wanted to understand how such suffering can exist in this world and what I could to stop it and why only some people seemed to suffer? I wanted to understand other people as I understood myself. I wanted to understand how I came to be, how others came to be and why we all feel so isolated when we are part of the same thing? I wanted to understand the heart of another being. So many things i wanted to understand. Even when I thought that i had left the path i kept on it, still struggling to understand.
These days once again changing my intentions. Knowledge is awesome. Understanding is bliss. What I want more than anything else these days is to be. I wish to be myself in full potential. I wish to shine forth the divine spirit from within myself and inspire others to do the same. I wish to remove all the nonsense that blocks me from being myself and I wish to be in full alignment with the highest truth and the greatest good.
Blessings, G

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Purple Cloud Lattice Mandala by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 21 2012

“Loving knowledge, understanding what knowledge is is a whole different thing than gaining knowledge.”
— Michael Tsarion

He goes on to say that gaining knowledge for specific needs is easy. I can relate to this quite a bit. I love gaining knowledge, learning new things, new factoids, pieces of the puzzle. I may put things together in strange ways connecting sky to grass to stars in a mosaic like way but even then i can learn from patterns that emerge or at least keep myself and occasionally others amused. These days, amusement feels like a much needed commodity.

a little doggerel for tonight:

One needs no excuse for seducing the muse
Self expressions the proof and we’re raising the roof
beyond limits we move doing things that we love
creating the existence we crave with persistence.

Namaste, G

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Om Fields by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – November 24 2011

“Knowing’s easy; everyone does that ad nauseam. I just sort of hope.”

        –The Doctor;  (Doctor Who-State of Decay)

Couldn’t let the 48th anniversary of Doctor Who go by without mention and since last night I used a JFK quote, then  I figured today would be the Doctor’s turn. Besides this quote describes something I feel quite often. So few things that I know for sure and most of those I only know to be true for me. Hope tho  I have in abundance. Hope that things can and will get better. Hope and weary faith in our species. Hope in more and more people choosing some form of path of awareness. What most people describe in a perforative sense as waking up. I believe I see that happening now.Miracles can and do happen every day.
Namaste,
GAR

Oh yeah a bit about the images for tonight. I started out playing out with gradients and pens and textures and ended up with the second image.I found it kind of cool and evocative but possibly needing something more. I played and played and ended up with the first one. Overall I feel happy with it (or at least satisfied) tho it may be a bit garish for my taste.

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River’s Mouth by G A Rosenberg

Colour Flow by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – September 26 2011

“Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.”

– Zen Proverb

Passing Thought – Love can shine through any amount of interference
whether internal or external which is but another
face that internal wears.

 

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Love Strength Mandala by G A Rosenberg

 

Within  by G A Rosenberg

On Art

For the past four or five months I have been constructing these photo-collages. For the previous 3 months before that, I had challenged myself to write 78 haikus, one a night, for each of the 78 cards in the Tarot. Around half-way through this process, I had the thought that if I could illustrate these haikus, I had a potential publishable book on my hands. However, I had never considered myself much of a visual artist. I love writing and I love word-play.

I’ve always enjoyed playing around with Photoshop, teaching myself little tweaks to enhance pictures, etc. Perhaps I could utilize those skills and combine photographs in interesting ways. Perhaps even encourage friends to send me pictures of themselves that I could utilize for the central figure in each card. First though, I’d have to teach myself the form, try my hand at a few and see if they’d be any good.  I started doing these photo-collages and I find them to be both fun and liberating. They seem to come through me rather than from me and even after I’ve completed one, I noticed elements in them that I hadn’t intended.

I enjoy playing with the combination of images and symbols. With every new person or event we encounter we gain the potential to enter a new world, discover a new state of being. Of course that is illusory for we all are different perspectives of the same existence. Different points of view as it were and when we enter a new state of being, as in one that incorporates new people, events and thoughts that weren’t there before what happens if not this shift in viewpoint, that entrance into a new world

I find that fascinating, the point at which two (or more) perspectives meet. There seems to be this rapid fire knowledge spurt that comes before enmity or love or fear can show up when our senses and spirits get bombarded by data emanated by someone or something that we had never conceived of before.