Month: October 2011

Quote of the Day – October 11 2011

“If you don’t find true balance, anyone can deceive you;
Anyone can trick out of a thing of straw,
And make you take it for gold
Don’t squat with a bowl before every boiling pot;
In each pot on the fire you find very different things.
Not all sugarcanes have sugar, not all abysses a peak;
Not all eyes possess vision, not every sea is full of pearls.”
–Rumi

Tonight I feel oddly balanced. I have come to an end of a few chapters in my life and my hand stands poised ready to turn the page to see what comes next. I feel complete and anticipatory. I feel joy with a bit of melancholy for spice. Most of all I feel grateful and have been finding many more reasons to feel this way. — G A Rosenberg

 

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Purple Star Healing by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – October 10 2011

“You’re in a prison, Evey.  You were born in a prison.  You’ve been in a prison so long, you no longer believe there’s a world outside.”

               — V (Alan Moore)

Yet, many of us finally become aware of the prison bars; the confines that define our reality. Once that awareness hits us, we either desire more than anything else to break our chains or we cower in fear at the idea of making our way into the unknown. “Here there be Dragons” as the old world maps say. Dragons to teach and dragons to slay and new worlds to explore. Existence offers more than the struggles we’ve been taught. We can refuse to be commodities. We can refuse to be the programmed sheep that so many wish for us to be.. I see a frightening new world out there that yearns to be born out of the remains of this old one that seems screwed up beyond repair. One built from ideals and ideas of heart, mind and spirit.

–G A Rosenberg

 

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Anonymous Dreams of Beauty by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – October 9 2011

“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.”

     –Leonardo da Vinci

Here I was hoping for a quote that would say something about not being able to return again. Not wanting to use the cliche about being unable to go home again but its true. The home of our youth seems unattainable which I believe may be more positive than not. I realize each time I return to the states how much my life, my beliefs, my outlook and my very being has changed. Whether the change has been a qualitatively positive one I cannot judge. Oh I feel much happier in my skin (and being) than I have ever been before. Yet there seems a comfort has been lost in not falling into the same patterns. One day I believe there will be a greater return and even then I will not be the same being I was. Each lifetime’s experiences mark our souls in inestimable ways. — G A Rosenberg

Two takes on the same picture

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Indigo Return by G A Rosenberg

Thanks to Michael K for title assist

Redemption by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – October 7 2011

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”

   –Neil Gaiman

 

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The Answer’s Inside by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – September 5 2011

“Be Silent now.
Say fewer and fewer praise poems.
Let yourself become living poetry.”
–Rumi, Soul Houses

Poetry moving with fluid rhythm
summing up one image or one mood perfectly
what is the theme of one’s life?
would each year be stanza, verse or new thought entirely
as one’s being creates itself anew…
–g a rosenberg

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Self-Imaging by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – October 3 2011

“When you have come to the edge of all the light you have
And step into the darkness of the unknown
Believe that one of the two will happen to you
Either you’ll find something solid to stand on
Or you’ll be taught how to fly!”
–Richard Bach

Off to Connecticut soon for the memorial service and to see family. Once more a farewell tho I feel in ways my mother’s presence closer than I have in years. Today I went to Shine, the tea restaurant and wellness place that I go to for Kambucha and yoga. The owner put her hand on my arm and said “You’re happy right” and I realized she was correct.
Mourning feels somewhat farcical when I realize that my mother now exists without the pain that has been part of her existence for the past 10 years. Unencumbered by the physical, she now embarks on whatever the next stage may be and knowing my mother, she travels first class (but then when it comes to spirit, don’t we all?)
Can I share this with my family? They showed so much fear in the hospital, of sickness and death and wish to mourn in the traditional Jewish way (the irony of it being called Shiva does not escape me, every culture shares connections) I honour their grief and the expression of it tho find elements of it uncomfortable, i guess lessons to be learned for all of us. Namaste

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The Stuff that Dreams Are Made of by G A Rosenberg