SANSKRIT PROVERBLook at this day, for it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the realities and verities of existence, the bliss of growth, the splendor of action, the glory of power. For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today, well lived, makes every day a dream, a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day |
PHILOSOPHY
LIVE MINDFULLY FOR THE HEALTH OF IT.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Dalai Lama - Mission Statement
“He frequently states that his life is guided by three major commitments:
1.) the promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness,
2.) the fostering of inter-religious harmony, and
3.)the welfare of the Tibetan people, focusing on the survival of their identity, culture and religion.”
1.) the promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness,
2.) the fostering of inter-religious harmony, and
3.)the welfare of the Tibetan people, focusing on the survival of their identity, culture and religion.”
Friday, October 7, 2011
Patience is the beginning of Mindfulness
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 20 August 430)
(As quoted in Distilled Wisdom: An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 270)
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Beginner's Mind
Sit down before facts like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly whatever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
- T.H. Huxley
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Calm Abiding
“If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. It’s your restlessness that causes chaos.”
— Nisaragadatta Maharaj
Monday, August 15, 2011
Blog or Sites to visit and edit this entry
ART BLOGS
- 50 Watts
- Airform Archives
- Antique Prints
- Antiques
- Art and the Aesthete
- Art blog by Bob
- Art Inconnu
- Bearded Roman
- Bibliodyssey
- Block and burin
- Blue Lantern
- Bookplate junkie
- English Buildings
- Etsen
- Feuilleton
- Figuration feminine
- Floating Bridge of Dreams
- Flux at Lumen Lake
- Graphic Arts
- Green Chair Press
- It started with a jug
- Japonisme
- L'Affichiste
- Le Beau Vice
- Librairie Loliee
- Lines and Colors
- Ma galerie
- Making a mark
- Meridian Gallery
- Modern Kicks
- Modern Printmakers
- Persephone Post
- Praeterita
- Recto/Verso
- The Art Point
- The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus
- The clever pup
- The Linosaurus
- The Textile Blog
- Underpaintings
LITERATURE BLOGS
MISCELLANEOUS BLOGS
- A nice cup of tea
- Aesthete's Lament
- Age of uncertainty
- Artifact collectors
- Bohemian Ink
- Chrissy Styles
- Czech Republic
- Designer BS
- Faux Naif
- Invisible wilderness
- It started with a jug
- James Russell
- Liberal England
- Life in the Cotswolds
- Lords of the Blog
- Magic Lantern Show
- Maison Conti
- My Darling Bubu
- Pictures
- Pinakothek
- Smartypants goes to France
- Spitalfields Life
- Unmitigated England
- Vesna
- What I saw today
- Where the lights end
- Wilful ways of C.J. Duffy
- Woolgathersome
- Yarnstorm
LITERATURE AND OTHER WEBSITES
- Alan Garner
- Apollinaire
- Baudelaire
- Beth Tondreau Design
- Blackden Trust
- Erica Wagner
- Folklore and mythology texts
- Fortnightly review
- Idbury
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Neil Gaiman
- Neil Philip
- Oliver James
- Philip Pullman
- Philip Wilkinson
- PN Review
- Poetry Archive
- Project for innovative poetry
- Sacred Texts
- Sarah Werner
- Ted Hughes
- The Daily Mash
- The North American Indian
- The Private Library
ART WEBSITES
- Abstract Expressionism
- Achenbach Foundation
- Affordable Art
- Allinson Gallery
- Americollector
- Anne Hedley Fine Art
- Annex Galleries
- Armstrong Fine Art
- Art and Popular Culture
- Art History Resources
- Art of the Print
- Artcyclopedia
- Ashmolean Museum
- Bibliotheque Nationale
- British Museum
- Cambridge Prints
- Childs Gallery
- Collins and Kent
- Fitzwilliam Museum
- Fondation Custodia
- German Expressionism
- Getty Museum
- Goldmark Art
- Green Art
- Idbury Prints
- Illustration
- Joconde
- Julian Hartnoll
- Koopman Collection
- La petite mort
- Liss Fine Art
- Louvre
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- MOMA
- National Gallery
- New York Society of Etchers
- Nineteenth-century Art Worldwide
- Paramour Fine Arts
- Pasquali Iannetti
- Peintres Orientalistes
- Print Council of America
- Printeresting
- Prints and printmaking
- Public Catalogue Foundation
- Public Lettering
- Raisonne
- Saatchi
- Spaightwood Galleries
- St Judes Prints
- Stoneman Graphics
- Tate Gallery
- this is tomorrow
- vads
- Van Gogh letters
- Victor Arwas Gallery
- Victoria & Albert Museum
- Visual telling of stories
- William P Carl Fine Prints
- Wolman Prints
- Xylon
- Yaneff Gallery
- Zeroland
SINGLE ARTIST BLOGS AND WEBSITES
- Andy English
- Belinda del Pesco
- Chas Laborde
- Emma Bradford
- Eric Ravilious
- Gus Bofa
- Jacques Beurdeley
- Jay Dee
- Jean-Pierre Velly
- Lacrime di Rospo
- Liam O'Connor
- Marc Chagall
- Marcel Roux
- Matias Amici
- Maurice Achener
- Michael McCurdy
- Ravilious and Bawden
- Renefer
- Thomas Groslier
- Tom Naylor
- Woodblock dreams
- Zorn Gallery
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Friends
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Logic may be limited in its scope.
"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Act, Dream, Plan and Believe; the Journey is the Reward so Live Mindfully.
Act, Dream, Plan and Believe; the Journey is the Reward so Live Mindfully.
These are words that summarize some of what I have learned reading self-help literature, Positive Psychology of Seligman, R.E.T.of Albert Ellis, Existentialism of Victor Frankl, Albert Camus, Sartre, Ernst Becker, and others, Zen and other Buddhist thoughts along with Chinese and Indian Philosophies; and my experience living many years and making my share of mistakes.
Habit Change was my original interest when I began writing journals of my daily thoughts and activities. My understanding of change has grown to encompass 'Change as a Constant' and the need for flexibility living in a constantly changing world with the constantly changing vehicle that is our human body, mind and soul.
These are words that summarize some of what I have learned reading self-help literature, Positive Psychology of Seligman, R.E.T.of Albert Ellis, Existentialism of Victor Frankl, Albert Camus, Sartre, Ernst Becker, and others, Zen and other Buddhist thoughts along with Chinese and Indian Philosophies; and my experience living many years and making my share of mistakes.
Habit Change was my original interest when I began writing journals of my daily thoughts and activities. My understanding of change has grown to encompass 'Change as a Constant' and the need for flexibility living in a constantly changing world with the constantly changing vehicle that is our human body, mind and soul.
Swimming Pool Theme
Swimming Pool because I worked as a Life Guard at beaches and swimming pools so water is a big theme in my early life.
Living in a beach shack during my childhood taught me about the ocean's changing tides and its many life forms. Bullheads to barnacles and everything in between found in tidal pools around our beach playground.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
2006
This is a year when things started to be recorded in one binder mostly. This will be the start of what I find in this years notes that is still of interest.
2005 and Before notes
I have always kept notes of things I'm reading and thinking but never keeping things together in a single binder like I do now.. Some of the stuff was lost. This will be a post of old stuff when I get it from the storage....
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Journal Notes: Now is it! Be Here Now
I have kept a journal of my day's activities consisting of notes about books or articles that I'm reading and pressing thoughts about my situation vis-a-vis health, money and learning about the World Wide Web.
My journal follows few rules and has evolved over the last 6 years into a consistent place to write about what is on my mind.
This blog is a place to write notes as I review the journals which are kept by year and by month they were written in loose leaf binders.
The system is getting awkward as the binders accumulate. Depending on activity some years require two 2" binders. Space is at a premium because I have more than a thousand books. I am in the process of culling much of my accumulated clutter. Minimalist and orderly living space is the Vision.
One step at a time, small tasks repeated, will create the order and space to live required for a calm mind.
Now is it! Be Here Now.
My journal follows few rules and has evolved over the last 6 years into a consistent place to write about what is on my mind.
This blog is a place to write notes as I review the journals which are kept by year and by month they were written in loose leaf binders.
The system is getting awkward as the binders accumulate. Depending on activity some years require two 2" binders. Space is at a premium because I have more than a thousand books. I am in the process of culling much of my accumulated clutter. Minimalist and orderly living space is the Vision.
One step at a time, small tasks repeated, will create the order and space to live required for a calm mind.
Now is it! Be Here Now.
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