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MY ARTWORK = S O L D

“I felt the most burning desire for once to be quite alone with my thoughts for a little while.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Though I may seem at times somewhat distant from you - through the gray mist of my own moods - I am never far. My thoughts always circle around you.”

"And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever." — Edmond Rostand

"Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it." — Osho

"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened." — Jorge Luis Borges

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"Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all." — Vincent van Gogh

"It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters," — Amit Ray

"Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears." — Rudolf Steiner

"She could've been a poet or she could've been a fool."

"One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." — Albert Einstein

"Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.” ― C.G. Jung

Some nights I wish I could go back in life, not to change things, just to feel a couple of things twice.

We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

“Truly to sing, that is a different breath." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Viet Cong (2015)

Timber Timbre - Run from Me

“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.” — Rumi

“When your energy vibrates at a frequency that is in direct alignment with what the universe has been attempting to deliver your entire life, you begin to live in the flow and true miracles start to happen.” — Panache

Love can be found in many places, but it can only be started with one look.

“Clouds show me the nature of my world. Rivers show me the nature of myself.” — Ringu Tulku

“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.” — Yasutani Roshi

“It is your show. It is your universe. There is no one else here, just you, and nothing is being withheld from you. You are completely on your own. Everything is available for direct knowing. No one else has anything you need. No one else can lead you, pull you, push you or carry you.” — Jed McKenna

“When the door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller

“Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.” — Byron Katie

“When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.” — Rumi

“A peaceful mind generates power.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.” — Rumi

“You are your own teacher. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.” — Ajahn Chah

“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”

“My advice to anyone in any field is to be faithful to your obsessions. Identify them and be faithful to them, let them guide you like a sleepwalker.” — J.G. Ballard

Basically all I want to do in life is kiss you and lay with you...

My Obsessions define me…

“That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.” — Albert Einstein

Gem Club - Breakers

the VELVET UNDERGROUND " Oh! Sweet Nuthin' " 1970

“Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.” - Charles Bukowski

“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.”

“Whatever circles comes from the center.” — Rumi

"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness." — Thich Nhat Hanh

Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. The new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, and open.

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” — Mary Oliver

"We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye." — Pablo Neruda