Understanding

"He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees.... The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.... Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries knows nothing about grapes."

- Paracelsus

Butterflies

There is a Native American legend that says, " If you have a secret wish, capture a butterfly and whisper your wish to it. Since butterflies cannot speak, your secret is ever safe in their keeping. Release the butterfly, and it will carry your wish to the Great Spirit, who alone knows the thoughts of butterflies.

By setting the butterfly free, you are helping to restore the balance of nature, and your wish will surely be granted."

Listen

All answers,

to all questions,

are inside each of us

Plastic Bags

This image is from: www.gogreenbags.com/ gogreen.php

I chose to feel better

When things are not going well.

I can chose between two things:

Believe that things will get better, or Believe things will become

worse.

Believe that it will get better, makes me feel better.

I chose to feel better!

Man in the Mirror

"Man In The Mirror" - Michael Jackson

I'm Gonna Make A Change,

For Once In My Life

It's Gonna Feel Real Good,

Gonna Make A Difference

Gonna Make It Right . . .

As I, Turn Up The Collar On My

Favourite Winter Coat

This Wind Is Blowin' My Mind

I See The Kids In The Street,

With Not Enough To Eat

Who Am I, To Be Blind?

Pretending Not To See

Their Needs

A Summer's Disregard,

A Broken Bottle Top

And A One Man's Soul

They Follow Each Other On

The Wind Ya' Know

'Cause They Got Nowhere

To Go

That's Why I Want You To

Know

I'm Starting With The Man In

The Mirror

I'm Asking Him To Change

His Ways

And No Message Could Have

Been Any Clearer

If You Wanna Make The World

A Better Place

(If You Wanna Make The

World A Better Place)

Take A Look At Yourself, And

Then Make A Change

(Take A Look At Yourself, And

Then Make A Change)

(Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,

Na Nah)

Pomegranate

I decided to eat this pomegranate - VERY slowly.

It is amazing how different things tastes, if it is the only action - focused on.

Sometimes I eat, to eat, without thought - then I don't see, nor taste

Time to wear your crown?

Dancing the Love of My Life

My latest completed painting:

This poem was written by Beth Peterson

Dancing the Love of My Life

On a sunny day

I gave my prayer wings

I stared at the wind for hours

A child looked at the blue sky

and pointed out the pale moon

I looked my Patience in the eye

and asked it for evidence

of its usefulness

I found a burrow

where I could curl up my dreams

and the grass sang

I reached out a hand

to a woman in a veil

She lit a candle

for my Hope

and made a promise

to snuff out my fears

I rubbed gold coins in my hands

until they were hot

I wondered, what could I believe?

and a Starfish melted under my foot

I blew ashes into bubbles

but nobody saw this

I watched an egg laugh

I heard a song

no one has sung

and for a moment

an Owl smiled at me

I wrapped up my blessings

and put them in an envelope

I bought a stamp from a man

who sold flowers

I went to the park

when the cherry trees blossomed

and I waded into the waters

I burnt off my limbs and my face

and my hair and my heart

so that you can love me

Reflection

I had a epiphany the other day. The idea obviously comes from wise guru's stuff I read before:

Everything around me is a reflection of how much love I have for myself. What I eat, how I dress, the way my papers are organized - EVERYTHING is a reflection on my self love!

True Knowledge

"When true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right...; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, the the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world. From the emperor down to the common men, all must regard the cultivation of the personal life as the root or foundation." - Confucius

Full Moon 07/07/09

Thanks to Telkom, I am back on line.

Tonight is full Moon! Yet another important cycle in our lives.

Never try to do anything, just do it!

Internet Connect

I am not sure if my vodacom data card has been hacked or whether, there is a virus on my computer "eating" my data.

Between myself, Vodacom and Telkom's DHSL we are busy working to get me,connected again.

Do you know what it is you want?

I took this photo at Tsodilo Hills, Northern Botswana. This is where, according to the first man, man was made.

27 000 years ago people did not have much choice as to how they are going to occupy their time on earth. They wanted to survive, therefore they gathered food.

Lots of theories exists about our forefathers and their art.

For me, it is quit simple: drawing what you want is a way of manifesting, it is being clear. Once we know what it is we want, believe that we are going to get it. We will surely receive it. Wondering why modern man, has to relearn one of the first things he knew.

Just Begin

"You possess all the capabilities for self-enrichment,

You need only exercise the powers.

As you begin, have no concern whether you are proceeding correctly.

Just begin." - Helene Hadsell

yellow pepper

I once made paintings of peppers; green, yellow and red.

Divine Purpose

I am the caterpillar eating my peace lilly!

Encounters

"Everything we encounter is pointing towards the direction we need to take." - Davide De Angelis (Money Shaman)

Divine Purpose

I find difficult to love these caterpillars that purposefully destroy my garden.

I know that they must have a divine purpose, otherwise, they would not have been created.

I wish, I knew why they are eating my peace lilly?

Vegetables

I love winter.

Soup is my staple diet - vegetable soup.

The shapes and the colors appeal to me. I wonder if it is more nutritious to eat things that are beautiful.

A cow for example is very beautiful, but somehow a chopped cow does not have the same quality of visual fulfillment.

I wonder if I should become a vegetarian that eats salami?

Beautiful life

I am thankful for my beautiful life.

Dance me

LEONARD COHEN
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Powerful

I love you.

Perfect Harmony

I took this picture at Sesriem. Follow link for more info.
http://www.summitpost.org/canyon/196459/sesriem-canyon.html

How incredible is this earth!
Clever people say that the formations found here are 15 to 18 million years old.
The elements: Fire, Air, Water, Earth - working together in perfect harmony, creating...

Patience

"Infinite patience produces immediate results" - A Course in Miracles, from The Power of Intention, Dr Wayne W. Dyer.

I am probably the most impatient person, I know. I am sure it is mostly to do with my exaggerated ego, at times. 

"Patience is a virtue!"

Contrasts

I just love the contrast between this round red berries and these spiky green leaves of this asparagus fern (Asparagaceae)

Commit

"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred... unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way" - Johann Wolgang von Goethe

Disease

Disease is something that you are not "in ease" with. Dis-ease.

Stevie Wonder apparently said: "The fastest spreading disease is not cancer, is not aids, it is hatred"

If you feel that this little blog of mine can help to combat the disease of hatred - please send it to everybody you know. To read; daily/weekly/regularly.

Purpose

"Those who has failed to work towards the truth has missed the purpose of living" - Buddha

Smoking

I have been smoking for more than 23 years. In that time, I have stopped several times for a couple of weeks.

Apparently a person gets over the nicotine addiction within three days? 

Why is it then, that I find the first week of trying to quit, the easiest? 

It is in the second and third week of not smoking that I find most challenging. 

My conclusion; nicotine is not addictive.

(When googling this, I found many views saying it is addictive, and lots of articles stating that it is not addictive). The thing is, that I am not a scientist or chemical expert. 

I believe a person gets addictive to the action of smoking, the action of sucking. One of the first things as a new born baby does, is to suck. Their is comfort in sucking onto the mother's breast. Great love is shared between baby and mother in these early years. As toddlers we do the thumb sucking. As adults some of us takes to smoking.

I think we smoke because, we feel the need to be loved, the way our mother's loved us. I think, as smoking adults we need to realize that we are okay, we need to realize that it is okay to love ourselves, to regain our own self-respect, to honor ourselves. It is okay to be ourselves. 

I am now on 8 days of not smoking. I am at my personal difficult stage. I know that by loving myself affectively that I will be able to break this habit completely. 

I will respect my bodily temple. 

I LOVE myself.

Serve and thou shall be served

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep in from themselves." - James M Barrie

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself... serve and thou shall be served." - Ralf Waldo Emerson

Live

Anything, that once lived, can not die.

Abundance

Wish for other people, that which you would like for yourself!

Silphium - Aham Prema

Human beings has many things in common. The most obvious of these things are probably love. 

The ability to give and receive love, and the absolute necessity of it.

"Aham Prema" is a Shakti Mantra meaning: "I am Divine Love"

This sculpture is for sale on "Bid or Buy"

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery

Bob Marley:

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? ooh!
Some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.

More than one part

I love avocado pears.

When cutting this one open, a small tree revealed itself.

The growth would not been able to take place in half an avo.

It is remarkable that we, humans, sometimes regard our selves as being one part of our selves only. For example, the part of myself that is concentrating the most in writing this is probably my brain, but my brain would not be able to do this without my finger, typing. Or my eyes seeing, or the fact that I am constantly breathing, to feed it oxygen. My creative expression cannot be complete if I only use one tool, I have to use all my tools, I have to use feeling, knowledge, remembering, inspiration etc. The examples can carry on forever. We are many parts working together! When all our parts work together, we are whole, then we can grow like this small tree!

You're gonna have to serve somebody

Bob Dylan:

You may be an ambassador to England or France,
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance,
You may be the heavyweight champion of the world,
You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls

But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.

Death

One thing is certain in life, we are all going to die.

A friend of a friend passed on in a motor car accident two days ago. 

Was she peaceful that last day on this earth? 

Am I living my truth everyday?

Living Stones

Spurts of positive energy!

"living stones"

I am grateful that I can see.

Thank you

Peaceful

I made this painting of "Peaceful", last year. At that time I was so inspired, so positive and in so much in peace. 

Today I am going to re-live being completely peaceful, knowing that everything I need for today, has been provided.