Month: September 2012

Quote of the Day – September 13 2012

“When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die”
― Joseph Campbell

 

Interesting thoughts on Empathy and Challenge from a friend that I wanted to share tonight:

Empathy.
Well…
what comes BEFORE empathy?

Tragedy.

Often.
Loss.
And – more importantly –
the inability to ignore the situation.

This is an advanced lesson.
For those who VALUE empathy.
For those who don’t give a shit about empathy…
A more INSPIRING lesson is often suited.
For the … cynical.
But for the optimiists
this is the lesson they really need to learn.

The cynics have been through that

now they got to start seeing it differently
Ah
let me put this another way –

“A warrior regards everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.”

Those who feel cursed need to feel love.
Those who feel blessing, need to feel disaster.
This is the CATALYST form.
For speeding up the process.
The way of Tantra.
as I was taught.

Until they begin to see
both blessings
and curses
as challenges.”

— Vajra Krishna

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Astro Room With a View by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – September 12 2012

I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

It seems that most of my path the last three years has been about exploration and expression. It has been and hopefully will continue to be one of the most creative periods of my life . It has also been one of growth where new ideas and concepts have been tested against each other and themselves and much has been added to my view. Oh I have no plans to stop tho I have a feeling this next year is leading me towards more practicality in addition to the art and the writing I love. It’s been an amazing  journey and as always I can’t wait to see what comes next.

Blessings, G

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Leaving the Studio by G A Rosenberg

Emerald Vision by G A Rosenberg

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 – September 10 2012

“That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.”
― Richard Bach

In martial arts you learn the most when you go against someone more accomplished and you lose. Chess is very much the same way. Sometimes in life, we have to lose our way to superior forces in order to become strong enough to win. At the very least, in our life when things don’t go our way, we learn and there is always a gift that lesson that lies within the situation.
Blessings, G

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Psychodelia  by G A Rosenberg

 

Stained Flower Mandala by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – September 9 2012

“Love is luxury. It is abudance. It is having so much life that you don’t know what to do with it, so you share. It is having so many songs in your heart that you have to sing them-whether anybody listen or not is irrelevant.”

OSHO

 

I want to feel like that all the time

 

what’s stopping you?

 

well there’s…. hmmm … then there’s hmmmm.

 

I’ve heard you walking around. You’re always singing. You have more music in you than you have ever known what to do with. I’ll let you in on a little secret. It’s not just you. We all have that music in us. Oh, so people tune it way down… and some ignore it but it’s always there. The more you learn to listen to the music of your heart, the more love you’re capable of showing. Oh you’ll show other things as well. Sometimes there’s a lot of pain to get through before the love flows openly. That’s where the music comes in. You don’t even have to sing to get it out, any form of self-expression will do, music just seems hard-wired into most of us. Pretty good deal too…

Blessings, G

 

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Tarot V-The Hierophant by G A Rosenberg

 

Escherian Torch by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – September 8 2012

“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
― Jack Kerouac

 

Today I found myself having a couple of conversations about kindness and compassion, what they mean and what they don’t mean. I’d like to share the questions that came up even more than any answers. Often questions seem more useful.

1) Is it kinder to point out someone’s blind spot so they may have the opportunity to grow or to act like it doesn’t exist?

2) How do we discern the difference between attacking an idea that someone has espoused and attacking the person? How do we realize that it is what we have said that has been challenged and that there was no personal attack at all?

3) What is self-development worth to us. Are we willing to sacrifice what we are for what we may become>

4) If you help a person to grow through extreme means and they thank you afterwards (retroactive consent) , have you violated the person they were?

5) How many of these questions have different answers based on the situation?

Just some food for thought.
Blessings, G

 

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She Holds Her Children Close by G A Rosenberg

 

Exploring Shapes on an An Exploded Ruby Abstract by G A Rosenberg

 

Quote of the Day – September 7 2012

“Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.”
–Barry Lopez

Tell my story now
and restore my life’ meaning.
You carved me
marbled marvelled beauty
then breathed life
by reciting a tale
of passion restored
and love awakened
love threatened
and all but lost
and lovers trapped
in stone doomed to crack and fade.
Restore me now with words
tell my tale again
so cracks become renewed
and I shall be reborn

 –GAR

Blessings, G

 

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Chiseled But Not Faded by G A Rosenberg

 

Blue Violet Rays by G A Rosenberg