NEWS FLASH!
We are the living FAITH of 'Humanity', and that faith is One's power, preparation, observation, willingness, excitment and reverence, whatever it is, we are doing it, because we are the faith.... We 'Artists' must continue to release and let go of holding onto anything of this creation. We are 'Human' Beings who have come into this world to 'Love' and 'Be'-loved! Forgive everybody everything all the time and prosper Beloved 'Artists' of this Universe. We, the 'Artisans' affirm everything is happening here and now in this incredible, unpredictable universe, and nowhere else as we know it. Indeed, all rights are reserved for its creations as it expands, encompassing and transforming all that IS. Although, we may tire of explaining the explanation's explanations of life, it is so wonderful to be alive and well. Many kindred spirit adhere to an adage, "I just want to live long enough to enjoy my life someday", then fade into oblivion. Trusting that one knows that one is doing exactly what one wants to do at all times for better and/or for worse, becomes ones experiences in one's creative process. Every time 'One' says "Everybody is... or People always...", 'One' is merely talking about OneSELF. The infinite variations of life Beings traversing within 'The Evolutionary Expressionism of Life Energy' as an extension of manifested realities are listening more clearly then every before to the inner voice of truth, honesty, character and integrity.
The 'Human' character must be impeccable even when 'One' succumbs to the qualities of ambition and greed as the dominate forces of dualistic pursuit. To be beguiled by aggressions into self-induced and created deprivation will render the results 'One' has created right here and right now. Think about it 'Artisans' of the Universe, we know the conscious awakening in wisdom and freedom directs creative actions to transcend all manner of doubt, chaos and confusion in the world surrounding the individual worlds. It isn't a revelation nor is it profound any more that the world does what the world does and will always do what the world does, and this isn't any big deal; in fact its just a momentary whimper not a bang at all. The world's mankind which inspires monotonous, banal, mundane and repetitive searches through mediocre attempts to override the universal unfoldment with manifesting illusions of reality at best is based upon the number one impediment of mankind's desperate motivation, namely called, FEAR!
The continuous search for life's definitude generates an artificial, superficial identity out of fear as the cause and effects of creative genius. What other species has the opportunity to deny themselves as supreme, devout and sovereign Beings in Human form? NONE! The divine, 'Human', comedy of errors, enforcing tragedy and producing drama is sublime. We know what we want and since we know what we want, then why aren't we getting it? We have it! but say...we aren't getting what we want because of FEAR! Sometimes we do not think to recognize the thoughts we think into manifestation, and take everything for granted. This is it. Do what one does, get it done. That which is undone, let it be undone, which means one didn't have to do it in the first place. When 'One' comes to understand the understanding of all the misunderstandings encountered throughout time and space. Then everything is happening with a blink of an eye. Therefore, 'Artisans' of this Universe....FAITH (feel as if the things has) been done!
Live before one dies,
Die before one lives,
But Live! Live! Live!
No matter what happens
Keep the Child's innocence,
It is the most important thing.
It's right here and now. It would be presumed to be ashamed to have grown old without ever having lived because of the delusion's fear. We must take courage 'Artisans' without courting the muse regret, for regrets are a waste of time in space. They are the past assumptions crippling the present-future-past moment to prevent and/or withhold the coming forth of greater creations. It's just a game. So, play it well! ...GO AND CREATE THE BODY OF ARTWORKS FOR ALL TIMES.
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Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
(1864 - 1901)
William Bouguereau
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Like many painters of the second half of the 19th century, Bouguereau made a careful study of form and technique and steeped himself in classical sculpture and painting. True to his serious and industrious nature, he worked deliberately and industriously: before beginning a painting he would master the history of his subject and complete numerous sketches.
The other day three pious egoists came to see me. The first was a sannyasi, a man who had renounced the world; the second was a orientalist and a great believer in brotherhood; and the third was a confirmed worker for a marvelous Utopia. Each of the three was strenuous in his own work and looked down on the others' attitudes and activities, and each was strengthened by his own conviction. Each was ardently attached to his particular form of belief, and all were in a strange way ruthless.
They told me, especially the Utopian, that they were ready to deny or sacrifice themselves and their friends for what they believed. They appeared meek and gentle, particularly the man of brotherhood, but there was a hardness of heart and that peculiar intolerance which is characteristic of the superior. They were the chosen, the interpreters; they knew and were certain.
The sannyasi said, in the course of a serious talk, that he was preparing himself for his next life. This life, he declared, had very little to offer him, for he had seen through all the illusions of worldliness and had forsaken worldly ways. He had some personal weaknesses and certain difficulties in concentration, he added, but in his next life he would be the ideal which he had set for himself.
His whole interest and vitality lay in his conviction that he was to be something in his next life. We talked at some length, and his emphasis was always on the tomorrow, on the future. The past existed, he said, but always in relation to the future; the present was merely a passage to the future, and today was interesting only because of tomorrow. If there were no tomorrow, he asked, then why make an effort? One might just as well vegetate or be like the pacific cow.
The whole of life was one continuous movement from the past through the momentary present to the future. We should use the present, he said, to be something in the future: to be wise, to be strong, to be compassionate. Both the present and the future were transient, but tomorrow ripened the fruit. He insisted that today is but a stepping-stone, and that we should not be too anxious or too particular about it; we should keep clear the ideal of tomorrow and make the journey successfully. Altogether, he was impatient of the present.
The man of brotherhood was more learned, and his language more poetic; he was expert in handling words, and was altogether suave and convincing. He too had carved a divine niche for himself in the future. He was to be something. This idea filled his heart, and he had gathered his disciples for that future. Death, he said, was a beautiful thing, for it brought one nearer to that divine niche which was making it possible for him to live in this sorrowful and ugly world.
He was all for changing and beautifying the world, and was working ardently for the brotherhood of man. He considered that ambition, with its attendant cruelties and corruption, was inevitable in a world where you had to get things done; and unfortunately, if you wanted certain organizational activities carried on, you had to be a little bit on the hard side. The work was important because it was helping mankind, and anyone who opposed it had to be put aside–gently, of course. The organization for that work was of the utmost value and must not be hindered. "Others have their paths," he said, "but ours is essential, and anyone who interferes is not one of us."
The Utopian was a strange mixture of the idealist and the practical man. His Bible was not the old but the new. He believed in the new implicitly. He knew the outcome of the future, for the new book foretold what it was to be. His plan was to confuse, organized and carry out. The present, he said, was corrupt, it must be destroyed, and out of this destruction the new would be built. The present was to be sacrificed for the future. The future man was all-important, not the present man.
"We know how to create that future man," he said, "we can shape his mind and heart; but we must get into power to do any good. We will sacrifice ourselves and others to bring about a new state. Anyone who stands in the way we will kill, for the means is of no consequence; the end justifies any means."
For ultimate peace, any form of violence could be used; for ultimate individual freedom, tyranny in the present was inevitable. "When we have the power in our hands," he declared, "we will use every form of compulsion to bring about a new world without class distinctions, without priests. From our central thesis we will never move; we are fixed there, but our strategy and tactics will vary depending upon changing circumstances. We plan, organize and act to destroy the present man for the future man."
The sannyasi, the man of brotherhood and the Utopian all live for tomorrow, for the future. they are not ambitious in the worldly sense, they do not want high honours, wealth or recognization; but they are ambitious in a much more subtle way. The Utopian has identified himself with a group which he thinks will have the power to reorient the world; the man of brotherhood aspires to be exalted, and the sannyasi to attain his goal. All are consumed with their own becoming, with their own achievement and expansion. They do not see that this desire denies peace, brotherhood and supreme happiness.
Ambition in any form–for the group, for individual salvation, or for spiritual achievement–is action postponed. Desire is ever of the future; the desire to become is inaction in the present. The now has greater significance than the tomorrow. In the now is all time, and to understand the now is to be free of time. Becoming is the continuation of time, of sorrow. Becoming does not contain being. Being is always in the present, and being is the highest form of transformation. Becoming is merely modified continuity, and there is radical transformation only in the present, in being.
–J. Krishnamurti
How does one connect and/or make contact with fellow Human Beings via the World Wide Web when the spam craze of dirty data has tainted the genuine efforts put forth by legitimate individuals and organizations using cyberspace to reach the population? Everybody must be responsible in order to pick out, understand and grasp the essential information that may enhance their life endeavors without becoming attached and/or reactive to the things that may not pertain to them and their individual interest.
This is the risk we take when communicating with anyone via the internet. We are living in the information age where public access impinges upon the field of privacy due to technological advancement. We cannot be naive nor enraged when we are focused and calm with a polite remove or delete that should suffice. Mutual respect is the order of the day, (yes or no), Voila!
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From the Artist/Poet
"The Timeless Account of a World Gone Awry...." Heaven On Earth: Web Weaving 101: If one lives long enough, one will see just about anything, and everything. But how long is life? And is one truly living? Questions, always questions! Sometimes it seems that they only bring more questions, definitely opinions and views of infinite sort, but rarely, again it seems, answers! Yet once again it seems the answers are that which brings forth the questions because we are never satisfied with seeing answers, and definitely not with hearing them. So the "Show must go on" and on, and on, and.....
Recently with a visit to "Not One Damn Dime!" [Boycott Bush's inauguration by not spending any money on inauguration day] site, link provided in the ‘news’ at Earthlink home page, I read some responses to the idea presented. I don’t know if anyone else really reads comments, yet was inspired to add one:
"My vote was not to vote nor participate in the external affairs of mental pursuits of right/wrong, for/against, pro/anti, all of the confusion of concepts of separation. I write simply to say that yes, fasting and prayer/meditation/visualization on this day may spark one to continue to explore the inner being and how it manifest, say, by it's inner 'vote', it's external reality and is a power that influences the results with which the external is motivated. Why it might actually be part of the intent that becomes the 'movement' with which this site is involved. And 'personally' any one who does the inner exploration may find that they will continue fasting, etc. as a way of life, and yes, even carrying one's lunch daily and not just as a 'special event' of protest, rather as a continual 'voice' for simplicity ....and even eliminate 'cable tv' from their life altogether, or whatever other 'distractions' of the mind that take one away from the inner spirit, whether it be 'causes' as for and against - abortion, gays, blacks or whites, this or that religion and their dogmas and creeds that are designed to be distractions of the mind to keep 'fear' at the forefront as another opposite to supposed 'faith' and the spirit is nowhere in sight! Oh, man, awaken from the slumber and simply 'love' from within. It might present a surprise, that which we already know, and that is 'we are one' indeed! NAMASTE.
PS. Thank you for 'being there', writing here has inspired the beginning of this month's Monthly Newsletter on my site."
No, I did not add a link to get ‘more traffic’ to my site. However I did look at the use of the word "love" in various comments of the visitors. It is amazing to see what constitutes "love" in the minds of readers, from actually it’s opposite "hate" to "love to slice your head off" and of course the inevitable "love your country" used in support of war and killing, and "I love America" in favor of returning to Democracy, the latter two having very opposing views, that show that "America" is certainly a concept that can be used to support any position that opposes another position. So.....
More Questions arise. What of "Love Of Country?" and, Does anyone truly understand what "Unity" is? .....
Love of Country
Yes, and the City as well. Sometimes the Suburbs seem like the "gutter" between the "frames!" That is, it seems the ‘greater part’ in between the frames is where what is visible is only what seems to have reality and that which is beneath it is unseen. So we surf site to site and never uncover the vastness of billions of pages on the web, and never find what we are truly looking for, and settle for close proximity while we spend our lives surfing without ever having lived.
Is it that "Search Engines" give us all the results we don’t want, or is it our not being specific in the search? Ah, "The Needle in the Haystack!" So wherever one goes, there one is. And we ask "how did I [we, one] get here?" without truly wanting to see the answer, lest we acknowledge our own creation.
No theatre, gallery, nor museum of import, and certainly no opera nor ballet, nor is there mountain, sea nor wildlife to speak of, but of course there is always the mall if one wants to go deeper into sleep. So what does one do? We hop into the car and go see a movie or to the fast food store, or get a video and popcorn to ‘fill in the time’ until morning to drive to work. After all, we must fulfill the need to pay for the car and gasoline to get to work to earn the money to pay for the car and gasoline to support the company who makes the car and gouges us for the gasoline and who no doubt had a brilliant idea to invest in or promote the ideas of real estate and create something called a suburb that will continue to grow and ensure continued earnings, and market it as "the good life" even if it destroys life of the country [both non-city and nation] in the guise of patriotism where even war boosts it’s monetary ends and brings controversy of those for and against, who likewise drive to meetings or give to causes in support of whichever position makes one think one is right, and gives a sense of ‘freedom’ within the programed state. All in hopes that one shall be saved, some day, from some imaginary hell, and all the while living in it’s nightmare, sleepwalking where one thinks one is alive as one has bought into everyone’s dream of "the good life" and "mass-think" which bars one from living and being what one truly is.
Unity? One! Not Two.
Can we begin to see that indeed what we do to another we do to ourselves? Yes, it has become "another concept" that is so often spoken, but the "reality" of it seems to escape us. Do we not know that we are each other manifest in different masks? So, we go on and on, saying that "God Is the Only Reality" yet deny it by our beliefs that are confirmed by ideas of separation, that is, that you and I are wholly different, that there is a you and I, when I am Thou and Thou Art I, when "I AM" creates itself in all things as the "Only Reality". The Sublime is beyond the oppositions that seem to exist and that arise from it in the field of creation as the ‘reflective’ and ‘inflective’. And as one recorded concept of is stated, "created" and pronounced it with "And It Is Good!" Can we see with the single eye that it is good, and that that good is within yet beyond the good/bad of dualistic thought? If we can see that we might find ourselves "Being in the World, but Not Of It!" and Discover [Dis-Cover], to see what was always there [Here and Now], Heaven On Earth, and have "Life" more abundantly. That is to truly Live and Love without conditions, even unto the end of time.
...And in Stillness...See!
JV Harvey
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Poetry #393
REASONS NOT THE NEED
The Infinite shines
Through all the days of our lives.
We are indeed shining
Examples of the infinite light
As it permeates the forms
Which we seem to inhabit
That arise from it's passing trail.
If it seems that
We attempt to catch the light,
It is that we appear
As though a memory
Of it's passing in an instant
Of its passing.
So we seem to remember
Ourselves being who
We become,
Yet we are one
With the light
And this is
The flicker of the candle,
The fleeting quality
Of the flame of life
That emerges from the eternal
And itself
Then is eternal.
United in the Divine
Nature of All
That Is,
We are Blessed,
We are Light,
We are Eternal,
We are One,
Love!
Poetry #326
THE PAST IS...
No doubt,
Sensed effects...
Trees, memories
Years prior life cycle.
Rocks, mountains,
Anchors nature
Time in a degree.
A day with vastness
Creativity happening,
Motivations freely channeled,
Directed toward the purpose
To be fulfilled.
The inner reality sets in motion
All support.
What want?
Where focus attention?
What choices made, and what
Totally change the moment?
Subtle or bold!
Back brisk walk
Pond and woods,
Quite a distant longer
Than the time it took.
Trees, sun, birds,
Amazing
After home,
The past is a changing memory.
The past is a memory changing!
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