UPDATE: Come nominate us for Green Business of the Year!
Go_to_gaia_btn
Mygaia_btn
Comm_home_btn
Gaia_mail_btn
Remember me
Powered by Zaadz
Gaia+

rudyan : prairie light rudyan's Profile

rudyan

is 
neither here nor there

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)

Er, make that writings. Odd 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

 
“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.



************

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

 

************

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.”
Anonymous



Member Since: Wednesday, August 01 2007

Last Visit: Today.

Profile Viewed: 2356 times (last viewed less than a minute ago)

My Friends:

You have many friends!
66 of them are here at Gaia

Gaia Team : Gaia Team
Gaia Team
Rumi Wannabe : Poet-in-training pants
Poet-in-training pants
Joy Bringer : Visionary Creator & Artivist
Visionary Creator & Artivist
willowinthewind : listening
listening
Prashant : Seeker
Seeker
Sandra : Inspirational Ambassador
Inspirational Ambassador
Leonardo : artist-entrepreneur coach
artist-entrepreneur coach
Doug : Back Yard Artist
Back Yard Artist
Burt : DreamKeeper
DreamKeeper
Laura : gypsy movement
gypsy movement
Celtic Knot : Writer
Writer
ayla : Illuminated Skye
Illuminated Skye
Wil : unEYEr1
Wil
unEYEr1
sandy : Aussie Activist
Aussie Activist
jenni : searcher
searcher
Tom : Mesocosmic Traveller
Tom
Mesocosmic Traveller
Clare : Anam Cara
Anam Cara
Catherine : mildly metaphoric
mildly metaphoric
Liza : Transforming Relationships
Transforming Relationships

view all friends!

Our Sponsors

Got feedback?

Sponsor us!