Quote of the Day – January 27 2012

““But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.”
― Paulo Coelho

What would life be like if we approached everything that came our way as if it were for the first time? How can we cultivate that form of observation? Is it a matter of perspective or point of view. Life experience does resemble snow flakes in that nothing ever seems to happen exactly the same way twice. Even when the experience is the same, we, either in outlook, mood, or experience are not quite the same person we were the last time it happened. Of course this type of talk can cause great anxiety in neophobes (people for whom the new causes great anxiety, fear or both).

Namaste, G

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My Four Legged Family

<h4>Last night I spoke a bit about the four legged part of my family and I realized that most people find showing better than telling and so…

Maggie

Maggie and Rufus

Rufus-Loves Watching Bubbles.

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Quote of the Day – January 26 2012

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals… In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”

                       –Henry Beston

The animals I live with teach me a lot. Their behaviour may not make sense from a human point of view but then the same could be said for much of mine. =) What I admire the most about the three of them.  Rufus, a seven year old Irish Terrier  tends to be the most territorial but also the most protective. Maggie, a boxer / pit cross wants most to make us happy tho also loves her comfort. Princess, our feline companion wants what she wants when she wants it. She does not hesitate to ask or demand but is willing to negotiate. She also enjoys hunting and leaving trophies. From them all, I have learned to stand my ground, to give way and to not back down when I feel correct in my actions. I’ve also learned a lot about love and affection. Namaste, G

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Contrasting Spirits by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 25 2012

“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”

–Jack Kerouac

Tonight I thought I’d find a Jack Kerouac quote and talk about my years hitchhiking around and some of my road adventures. I still may do that some time soon tho instead of a road quote I pulled up a quote about dreaming and what we all have in common.
We all float along the dream stream, sometimes…
Letting go, seeing things clearer and more distant
or nearer and fuzzier,
In our dreams we clear our beings, I suppose in a way one of the functions of the dream world is to be the excretory system of what enters our psyche or perhaps to be more fair (and less gross) the digestive system , we process memes through dreams, lucidly or otherwise, keep what we we can use (sometimes to our detriment) and let the rest pass through whatever symbolic forms they may find…
Yet that would be just one function of dreams, our dreams may also serve as templates or heralds or influencers on what may be coming around the bend.When we become lucid in dreams, we may find ourselves able to influence our future selves in the larger dream we think of as waking life. Namaste, G

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Amethyst Visions by G A Rosenberg

Crystals by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 24 2012

“‎”When we feel stuck, going nowhere–even starting to slip backward–we may actually be backing up to get a running start.”
– Dan Millman

This quote resonates in all kinds of ways. Lately, despite minor ups and downs in my art and my life, I have felt a bit stagnant. Physically, I’ve been fighting colds and emotionally and mentally while working on the upbeat, knowing its all emotional weather patterns, I have been like a plane circling in the air looking to either land or take off and perhaps uncertain which one I’ve been heading for. I’ve been this way before a few times, usually before pretty intense life changes. Perhaps a new cycle may be about to begin. I find one thing about this feeling heartening. I have more patience with myself, with whatever emotions may flow through, even with whatever life may bring than I have had before. I trust the universe. It hasn’t let me down before. I only hope ultimately the reverse may be true also.
Namaste, G

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Seated by G A Rosenberg

Seated2 by G A Rosenberg

Rainbow Mandala

A bonus picture…

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Rainbow Mandala by  G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 23 2012

“You can’t cross the sea merely by staring at the water”
–Rabindranath Tagore

For too long I have stood here, looking out, knowing that one day i need venture forth one more time and journey not only in the inner way that I’ve grown so good at but externally as well. Each moment the adventure awaits yet which of us has the courage to take that first step? If we speak honestly we admit that each moment has been part of the journey and this latest step yet another in line yet why do some steps seem so much more difficult than others? Yet very often those are the ones most worth taking. Part of it is also acknowledging where and who we are without resistance. Only by doing this can we get to where we’re going. Namaste, G

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Flying through Strange Landscapes by G A Rosenberg

Entering a New Dimension by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 22 2012

“We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art… Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace. “
–Carl Jung

I would like to just be with my thoughts and feelings. Do I mean be like the eye in the hurricane,calmly fixed in the centre while all my thoughts and feelings dance around me. Who knows what magic might spring up? I can journey with my wildest imaginings without worry that judgement could curtail it. I could be wrathful, lustful, beatific, blissful without opposition sometimes all at once. Ah that I may have the grace to find myself perceiving from the view of the witness, just on occasion, to not live from my past or for my future but present, fully present in the now. Namaste, G

A word on tonight’s pictures: Both of these came from dancing with a series of 3-4 brush strokes and seeing what I could make of them-complicated simplicity as it were,

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Primitive Owl by G A Rosenberg

Glow Play 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 – January 20 2012

“When you’re touched by magic, nothing’s ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They’re too busy, or they just don’t hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.”
– Charles de Lint

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The View From the Window in My Mind by G A Rosenberg

Infinity by G A Rosenberg