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Posts from the ‘Self Awareness’ Category

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.” –Gautama Buddha

Tree Poem 1A philosopher, a saint and a sex therapist walk into a…

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” –Ludwig Wittgenstein Read more

“All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.” –Paloma Faith

Glass Imagery 1In the beginning, out of darkness blooms a picture-perfect day in a garden of beauty’s light. By the weekend, though, it’s afterglow, and before you can say fig leaf, dark.

An age is called dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people fail to see it.” –James A. Michener

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“May the inherent stress and peril of unfolding a beach chair not sabotage your plans to relax this summer.” –Anonymous

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Unfolding a beach chair releases the tension of school bells announcing summer vacation. 

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.” –Nhat Hanh 

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“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” –Matsuo Basho

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We rock-and-roll home on a tongue-in-cheek prayer, in Janice Joplin’s Mercedes Benz, and swing home with a band of angels, in a gospel choir’s sweet chariot.

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“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” –Anton Chekhov

WINTER   On a nude beach, a digital instant is too cool, a kodak moment too warm. A polaroid season is just right. Like old love at first sight.

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“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” –Pablo Picasso

sunspotsAstronomers complain that the great ball of fire of our golden age is only a yellow dwarf star.

“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.” –Randall Jarrell

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“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others” –Jonathan Swift

  red  Today’s arts and quotes are brought to you by the colours people feel.

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“One eye sees, the other feels.” –Paul Klee

2 When opposites see eye to eye, there is attraction.

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” –Jim Carrey

EB4When intuition and imagination see eye to eye, there is beauty.

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.” –Rabindranath Tagore

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When character and humility see eye to eye, there is vision.

“Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.” –Helen Keller

When hindsight and foresight see eye to eye, there is insight.

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?” –Henry David Thoreau

 

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” –George Bernard Shaw

PERSONAS2We know 007 is an illusion, but a woman? Read more

“Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.” –Vilfredo Pareto

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