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rudyan

quiet

Title: quasar

Age: Ageless

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’d do it. I just can’t do it! And that is why I’m just a little crazy.
Rembrandt Van Rijn

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

Er, make that writings. Interesting how much these painter-quotes resonate with me…


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


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Here's the thing, I love to write. In fact, playing in the word sandbox is just about my favourite thing to do in the world. I love to make words fit together just so, I love to split their atoms apart, I love to wallow in the muck of them. I love to stretch the rubbery silence between them to see how much give I'll get before they all go smuckety-smuck and topsy-turvy, colliding, bouncing against one another like the little numbered balls in a lottery bubble. Who will be the next big winner? What new megastar or constellation or even universe will I find glowing, twinkling, winking at me when the dust settles?

What do I write? I write blogs, stories, haiku, poetry. I write whatever comes up. I do my best writing in freefall mode, similar to the method taught by Sandra Jensen in Diving Deeper: A Writing Workshop. In her words (well, not exactly, but the gist is there):
Show up, write what occurs.
Don't edit, don't go back.
Go fearward, go where the energy is.
Give all the sensuous detail.


*****


The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
Richard Bach


And this from my friend Ramsses, with permission:

It's like converting water into wine,
This notion that I can reform myself,
Or a volcano blowing its lid off
And becoming a tropical island.

I love that! Here's where I found it.


Do it yourself. Be an explorer.
An explorer does not merely take
The guided tour.

Zen saying


There have been no dragons in my life, only small spiders and stepping in gum. I could have coped with the dragons.
Anonymous


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Some Self-Quotes

Sometimes clouds temporarily block our sun. I've never known clouds to stay, I've never known the sun to stay away. (Mar '09)

In retrospect, a nightmare is just another town we passed on the way to wholeness, and peace. (Sep '08)

Think about it: if every individual in the world were rippling peace, where would war start? (Aug '07)

Some people shut others out with noise, others with silence. Neither promotes peace.

Loving myself unconditionally means loving myself when I show compassion for my neighbour and when I react in anger to his actions, with no judgment that one is better than the other.

When I accept myself, it is irrelevant whether anyone else accepts me.


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Favourite Other-Quotes

The highest form of spiritual practice is self-observation without judgement.
Swami Kripalvananda

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.
Tilopa

The soul is its own source of unfolding.
Heraclitus

I don’t develop; I am.
Pablo Picasso

The real trick is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.
Fred Alan Wolf

There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietsche

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviors. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself.
J. Krishnamurti

Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können. (If you want to give birth to a dancing star, you need chaos in your soul.)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietsche

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

There is no way to peace, peace is the way.
A.J. Muste

The end of the war with the mind is the end of war.
Byron Katie


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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.


When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase
each other
doesn't make any sense.


Rumi


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