Vision

DAY 25

journey into the truth
by kleoniki vanos

when do i stop... hoping, dreaming, reaching, growing, trusting...

storms

resistance

criticism???

the answer & the strength comes from within me. no one has my soul, the journey will continue as it must, in this i need to trust. perhaps i have mentioned this before but, i feel the need to reiterate it: "a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step". every moment is a step, sometimes crippled, sometimes a leap, or a crawl, or a skip, but never the less, a step.

moving toward ourselves is probably one of the many important reasons why we have been given this time on earth. it is also one of the hardest. how else can the creator be applauded for his masterpiece of continuous hard finally satisfying labour, than by the admiration & completion of his most magnificent work, YOU, ME, US?

sometimes we loose ourselves in the opinions that others have about us. sometimes, if not all the time, our affirmation comes from outside sources (success, failure, possessions, people, etc). none of us can escape this, somewhere on our journey it happens, but i would like to remind us... our affirmation comes from within.

STAY THE COURSE OF YOUR INNER KNOWING! this is truth... realise that all the people that have spoken over you or touched your life in some way, have never had the power to change your course or destiny, it has always been within you. interpret this as you will, your heart will tell you the truth which i cannot do.

freedom to journey... is the gift we give ourselves without fear.

Vision

DAY 24

who said what about happiness & joy?

websters on happiness: good luck; good fortune, prosperity; an agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended with enjoyment; the sate of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.
websters on joy: the passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune & the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire, gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.

may we live in all dimensions of being, without running away from the unpleasant, so that we can experience joy & happiness! knowing that joy is always here waiting for her moment to shine in all her glory. we are never crushed beyond the strength to rise up again.

albert einstein: joy in looking & comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

may we have vision to see the beauty around & within ourselves. the created uniqueness that indwells each one of us.

william shakespeare: love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. lawless, winged, & unconfined, & breaks all chains from every mind.

may we never learn to be disgusted by our ability to love.

c.s. lewis: i sometimes wonder if whether all pleasures are not substitutes of joy.

may our lives be filled with all kinds of pleasures that begin & end with joy.

khalil gibran: there are those who give with joy, & that joy is their reward.

there is a greek saying that goes something like this; once you've done a good deed, cast it into the sea. this means, don't expect a reward because your kindness is your reward.

plato: love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.

helen keller: we could never learn to be patient, if there were only joy in the world.

leonardo da vinci: the noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

william blake: he who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; but he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise.

john rhon: the wall we build to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

soren kiekergaard: there are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilisation. so it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

antoine de saint-exupery: true happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

leo buscaglio: worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

william blake yeats: joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

rene descartes: illlusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

honore de balzac: excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

aleister crowley: the joy of life consists in the exercise of ones energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. to stop means simply to die. the eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

c.m. forster: those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

joy to the world!!!

Vision

DAY 23

this year, 2012, i celebrate every authentic, genuine, truth of being, living, & people who inspire authenticity!

*paul gaugin said: "civilisation is what makes you sick. in art all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary, & it is they alone who are masters!"

this gets me right between the eyes every time i read it!

living authentically, without copy, without duplication, without repetition, without comparison!!!

*claude monet said: "the motif is insignificant for me, what i want to represent is what lies between the motif & me."

living authentically in truth!

*winston churchill said: "a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"to improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
"success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
"courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all others."
"continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
"NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP!"

*edgar allan poe said: "the true genius shudders at incompleteness - & usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
"they who dream by day are cognisant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
"we loved with a love that was more than love."
"were i called on to define, very briefly, the term art, i should call it 'the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul. the mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in nature entitles no man to the sacred name of 'artist.'"

*jackson pollock said: "abstract painting is abstract. it confronts you. there was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. he didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was."
"i have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own."
"a modern artist is working with space & time, & expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."
"the modern artist... is working & expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, & other inner forces."

i trust that these words will inspire an authentic growth & journey into dimensions unimaginable in the past, thrusting us into our authentic destiny & truth.

infinite happiness...