spiritual

 

 

 

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

shadow

 

 

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one if the shadow of the other.

Carl Gustav Jung

cruelty

 

 

 

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Seneca

space

 

 

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Viktor Frankl

darkness

 

 

If you're in pitch darkness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

question

 

 

 

There are two sides to every question.

Protagoras

home

 

Home is not where you were born or grew up. Home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Naguib Mahfouz

hardest

 

 

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

not a king

 

 

 

NOT A KING!!

NOT A KING!!

beauty

 

 

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Amit Ray

dancing

 

 

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

bitterness

 

 

 

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Zora Neale Hurston

dismiss

 

 

The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding and absurd and not worth thinking about.

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird

Happy Pride

 

HAPPY PRIDE, NYC

service

 

 

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edleman

age

 

 

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age and certain memories can never fade. 

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird

get

 

 

Folks, I'm telling you. birthing is hard and dying is mean-so get yourself a little loving in between.

Langston Hughes

aim

 

 

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

devour

 

 

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

alert

 

 

 

Unlike the stomach, the brain doesn't alert you when it's empty.

Arabic Proverb

pictures

 

 

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Elliot Erwitt

price

 

 

 

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

inside

 

 

 

It's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.

Clarice Lispector

changed

 

 

 

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Malcolm X

life

 

 

 

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting of of it.

 Carl Jung

time

 

 

In any case, time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar, "it's a sea on which you float."

Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

feelings

 

 

Feelings can be like wild animals - we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage.

Richard Paul Evans

fear

 

 

 

Where your fear is, there your task is.

Carl Jung

86 47

 

 

 

the face of chaos

86 47

86 47

life

 

 

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

Tennessee Williams

truth

 

 

 

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

George Orwell

dreamer

 

 

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as An Artist

look

 

 

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming of.

Alice Walker

fools

 

 

The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.

Eramus

purpose

 

 

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

guilt

 

When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Hannah Arendt

truth

 

 

 

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Simone de Beauvoir

we the people

 

 

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

reality

 

 

 

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

Aldous Huxley

perfection

 

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

half

 

 

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

life

 

 

 

Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.

Gwendolyn Brooks

soul

 

 

 

The soul becomes dyed with color of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

 

 

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Malcolm X

mistook

 

 

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre

death

 

 

 

Death is a drawing together of two worlds, not an end. We are the bridge.

Carl Jung

noise

 

 

 

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

Thelonious Monk

hypocrites

 

 

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

Noam Chomsky

present

 

 

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston

wish

 

 

 

Be careful what you wish for lest it come true.

Aesops