carpe diem

DAY 38

CARPE DIEM!

"Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. it is later than you think." Horace

Ascension
by Kleoniki Vanos

"Anger cannot be dishonest." Aurelius (thought this was profound, just had to share it).

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." Aurelius

Moulded I
by Kleoniki Vanos

"Begin at the beginning & go on till you come to the end; then stop." Lewis Carrol

zorba: "Why do the young die? why does anybody die, tell me?"
scholar: "I don't know."
zorba: "What's the use of all your damn books? If they don't tell you that, what the hell do they tell you?"
scholar: "They tell me about the agony of men who can't answer questions like yours." Kazantzakis

Moulded II
by Kleoniki Vanos

"Keep me from the wisdom that does not weep & the philosophy that does not laugh." Gibran

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." Marcus Auralius

"Not everything that can be counted counts, & not everything that counts can be counted." Einstein

Brewing
by Kleoniki Vanos

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." Seneca

Vision

DAY 37

today has been waiting for you...

take a deep breath
by kleoniki vanos

do whatever your hands find to do & do it with passion!

rise to the occasion & make it count
by kleoniki vanos

keep your thoughts in check, make sure they don't sell you an option to opt out & settle. you can! you can! you are a success!

two souls meeting in mid-air
by kleoniki vanos

keeping the faith is sometimes all you can do, but do it & wait for the wonderful surprises that each day affords you.

the blues
by kleoniki vanos

allow yourself the freedom to experience life & people - you'll find there is more GOOD than bad. treasures that fear would have stopped you from finding.



mamma africa
by kleoniki vanos

make it your life's mission to find happiness & contentment within yourself.

taking a walk with purpose
by kleoniki vanos

be unyielding in your determination to stay the course, even if met with resistance & criticism from others, & stay true to yourself!

happy day...

DAY 36



Healing Wings
by kleoniki vanos

you were born with wings. you are not meant for crawling, so don't. you have wings. learn to use them (this will take time) & fly!

Elegance
by kleoniki vanos

simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
let's think about that statement for a while:
-clear out,
-get rid of unnecessary people & things that hinder & cloud the journey of truth toward self.

letting go - when i let go of what i am, i become what i might be.
as wonderful as this sounds, it is probably up there with one of the most difficult things to do for yourself. is where i am just a place of safety, complacency, stagnation, suffocation, death?

letting go of everything - void - blank out - everything that everyone has ever communicated to you pertaining to who you are! only you know who you truly are & what potential is within you.

re-write who you are. re-invent what you are.

What?
by kleoniki vanos

you can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. einstein.

so where to from here? one step at a time, keep moving forward, going back is not an option & staying where you are is not either!

continue on the journey towards the truth...

Continuum
by kleoniki vanos



DAY 35

in a life time there are moments, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years of:
yes & no
dark & light
love & hate
give & take
wrong & right


Encounter Moments
by kleoniki vanos

good & evil
happiness & sadness
joy & grief
gain & loss
silence & noise

Incubation
by kleoniki vanos

peace & war
safety & danger
seen & unseen
knowing & unknowing
breakthrough & walls
finding & loosing

From Here to There
by kleoniki vanos

holding & letting go
birth & death
friends & enemies


Enlightenment
by kleoniki vanos

kindness & aggression
patience & impatience


Heightened
by kleoniki vanos

health & sickness
endurance & giving up

Continuum
by kleoniki vanos

give & take
abundance & lack
satisfaction & hunger

Embalmed Essence of A Woman
by kleoniki vanos

alone & together
empty & full
acceptance & rejection
understood & misunderstood
listening & deaf
passion & lacklustre

celebrating a life time & more...

DAY 34

please excuse my silence, it's been a little hectic, to say the least.
a group of local artists are planning an exhibition to raise funds for orphans in the area. this event will take place tomorrow night, 3 May 2012 at 19h00, Stonehaven on Vaal.
i'm very excited!

i have been reading a book by clarissa pincola estes & these are the gems that i have gleaned from the journey. sharing some thoughts that i have been meditating on over the past 2 months. hoping that you in turn may be enriched.

• if we could realise that the work is to keep doing the work, we would be much more fierce & much more at peace!
• life & sacrifice go together. if you want to create, you have to sacrifice superficiality, some security, & often your desire to be liked, to draw up your most intense insights, your most far reaching visions.
• guard the treasures of your basic natures...
• it is not good to make choices when we are dazed, but we do.
• but, even if it is our own dismal choices that have blown us off course - too far from what we need - hold faith, for within the soul is the homing device. we all can find our way back.
• when not interfered with, the relationship between soul & spirit is one of perfect symmetry; each enriches the other in turn.
• we cannot overlook the fact that there is still much thieving & hamstringing of talents through cultural restriction & punishment of our natural wildish instincts.
• in the face of "too much' we gradually become dry, our hearts become tired, our energies become spare, & a mysterious longing for - we almost never have a name for it other than "a something" - rises up in us more & more.
• NOTHING MAKES THE LIGHT, THE WONDER, THE TREASURE STAND OUT SO WELL AS DARKNESS. night is when we are closer to ourselves, closer to essential ideas & feelings that do not register so much during the daylight hours.
• do not fear 'not knowing.'
• discontent is the secret door to significant & life-giving change.
• long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. it was also used as an oracle, as a way of listening to the inner self to solicit advice & guidance otherwise impossible in the din of daily life.

Comfort in the stillness of sound
by kleoniki vanos

To hamstring a horse
by kleoniki vanos

The butterfly spoke
by kleoniki vanos

• focus is composed of sensing, hearing, & following the directions of the soul-voice.
• in fairy tales, when something bad happens it means that something new has to be tried, a new energy has to be introduced, a helper, healer, magic force has to be consulted.
• your worn-out idea or endeavour can shine more brightly if you will take some of it & throw it away. it is the same idea as the sculptor removing more marble in order to reveal more of the hidden form beneath.
• to take a breath causes one to feel ones emotions, that when we wish not to feel we hold our breath instead.
• when laughter helps without doing harm, when laughter lightens, realigns, reorders, reasserts power & strength, this is the laughter that causes health.  when the laughter make people glad they are alive, happy to be here, more conscious of love, heightened with eros, when it lifts their sadness & severs them from anger, that is sacred.
• all emotion, even rage, carries knowledge, insight, what some call enlightenment.
• we want to use anger as a creative force. we want to use it to change, develop, & protect.
• when we are drawn to quests we know little about, this makes life & develops soul.
•  the important part of forgiveness is to begin & continue. the finishing of it all is a life work.
• your life may not have turned out to be a happily ever after, but most certainly there is now a fresh once upon a time waiting for you from this day forward.

Another country
by kleoniki vanos



• for the sake of your wild soul, it is better to cry.

Mannequin
by kleoniki vanos






till we meet again...