Let the Sun Shine Growth

 "Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resemble more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are from...."-Michelangelo (1475-1564)

Mother Teresa

"If we have no peace in this world, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."  - Mother Teresa

I Missed You, So I Painted You

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Ode to Songbirds

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing coulds of glory do we come From God, who is our home..." - William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"

Home Sweet Home

"It's not what happens to you, it's what you do with what happens!" Bashar

Serenity

"The bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." Maya Angelou

The Mothers

"Behold, I have opened a door for you which cannot be shut!" Revelation 3.8

My Execution for Mr. Big Time Hollywood

"It is not that people won't betray you. It is not that your heart won't break again and again. Opening to whatever is present can be a heartbreaking business. But, let the heart break, for your breaking heart only reveals a core of love unbroken." - Gangaji, The Diamond in Your Pocket

Strength

"You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion."-Dalai Lama

The Hanged Man

"Out of the strong came forth sweetness." - Judges 14.4

Dedicated to my Minotaur

"Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do."
- C.G. Jung

Death of a Painter

"For that which is born death is certain and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable." Bhagavad- Gita

Love for Breakfast

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
George Bernard Shaw

The Angel

"At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise from death, your numberless infinities of souls." - Holy Sonnets, VII John Donne

Lovers and Three Vials of My Blood

"My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears and true plain hearts do the faces rest. Where can we find two better hemispheres without sharp North, without declining West? Whatever dies was not mixed equally; if our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die." - John Donne

Beyond Suffering/The Resurrection of the Three

"We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid of it. We have ingested everything to get rid of it. Finally, when one has tried enough, there arises the possibility of spiritual maturity with the willingness to stop the futile attempt to get rid of and instead, to actually experience suffering. In that momentous instant, there is a realization of that which is beyond suffering, of that which is untouched by suffering. There is the realization of who one truly is." - Gangaji

"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God." - Mary Daly

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Invited to the Party/Drink Me

"I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside." - Louise Nevelson

Betty's Roses

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." - Henry David Thoreau

Tradewinds

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." - William Blake

Blessings

"When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting." - Fernando Botero

The Magician and I.

"The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention. Where you direct your attention creates your life experiences, and brings a new course of events into being. Where you habitually put your attention is what you worship. What do you worship in this mindstream called your life?" - Gangaji

Renewal

"Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land." - Song of Solomon 2.10

"Prosperity"

"The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." - Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Enchantment"

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."-Walt Whitman (1819-1892)