rudyan
Title: prairie light
Gender: Female
Age: Ageless
Sun Sign: Aries
Chinese Sign: Wood Rooster
Location: Victoria, BC
About Me:
Who, what, where, when, why?
I, am, here, now, pure being,
Is all that matters!
(RAD, Jan '08)
“Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and try to paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I'll tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it! And that is why I'm just a little crazy.”
Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-69)
True, that's Rembrandt, but if you insert the word 'live' (or even 'be') where he uses 'paint', you've got me, in a nutshell. Nobody knows how hard I tried to be what they wanted me to be. And nobody can even imagine how grateful I am that I couldn't do it. Let's hear it for failure! (Yeah!!!) And yes, here's to “just a little crazy”-ness!
“Anyone who wants to know something about me ought to look carefully at my pictures.”
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”
Allen Ginsberg
“I don't develop; I am.”
Pablo Picasso
“The soul is its own source of unfolding.”
Heraclitus (5th century BCE)
Do it yourself. Be an explorer.
An explorer does not merely take
The guided tour.
– Zen saying
And I thought over again
My small adventures
As with a shore-wind I drifted out
In my kayak
And thought I was in danger
My fears,
Those small ones
That I thought so big
For all the vital things
I had to get and reach
And yet, there is only
One great thing,
The only thing:
To live to see in huts and on journeys
The great day that dawns,
And the light that fills the world.
– INUIT SONG
I thank my friend Rusty (a.k.a. Wind Song) for bringing this song to my attention; he tells me he learned of it through his “enlightened, Buddhist cousin” at www.kichu.com. I think it's awesome.
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Some Self-Quotes
“Think about it: If every individual in the world were rippling peace, where would war start?” Aug '07
“Some people shut others out by noise, others by silence. Neither promotes peace.” Aug '05
“When I accept myself, it is irrelevant whether anyone else accepts me.” Nov '06
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Favourite Other-Quotes
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The end of the war with the mind is the end of war.”
Byron Katie
“There is no way to peace, peace is the way.”
A.J. Muste
“The highest form of spiritual practice is self-observation without judgement.”
Swami Kripalvananda
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.”
Tilopa
“The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.”
Fred Alan Wolf
“Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können.” (You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietsche
“There have been no dragons in my life, only small spiders and stepping in gum. I could have coped with the dragons.”
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