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You should know that life is lonely. You come out alone and you go out alone. If you know that, it will get better. Some people will love you and some won't. That's life. If you know that, it's a pretty good life.

Yoko Ono

IMAGINE PEACE

You can sweep up the dust of a thousand ruined civilizations in this breath. You can gather the ashes of your ancestors in this breath. Whisk the DNA from all the microbes that ever swarmed the gut or swam the blood of rodent, honeybee, or leprous medieval peasant in this breath. You can…

"THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER”

The girl in the photo is Anne de Gaulle; the third daughter of Yvonne Vendroux and General de Gaulle. She was born on New Year's Day in 1928. Her features, as you can appreciate, are characteristic of what we now call Down syndrome, and in Anne's case it was severe, so much so that she could barely walk…

CLAIR DE LUNE

Your soul is a chosen landscape

Where charming masquerades and dancers are promenading,

Playing the lute and dancing, and almost

Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.

While singing in a minor key

Of victorious love, and the pleasant life

They seem not to believe in their own happiness

And their song blends with the light of the moon,

With the sad and beautiful light of the moon,

Which sets the birds in…

EARTH SONG

Listen to things more often than beings.

Hear the voice of the fire, hear the voice of the water,

Listen in the wind to the sighing of the bush:

This is the ancestors breathing.

Those who are dead are never gone;

The dead are not down…

I lied and said I was busy.

I was busy but not in a way

most people understand.

I was busy taking deeper breaths.

I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.

I was busy calming a racing heart.

I was busy telling myself I am okay.

Sometimes this is my busy,

and I will not apologize for…

The famous Italian diver Enzo Maiorca dove into the sea of ​​Syracuse and was talking to his daughter Rossana who was aboard the boat. Ready to go in, he felt something slightly hit his back. He turned and saw a dolphin. Then he realized that the dolphin did not want to play but to express something. The animal dove and Enzo…

You start dying slowly ;

if you do not travel,

if you do not read,

If you do not listen to the sounds of life,

If you do not appreciate yourself.

You start dying slowly :

When you kill your self-esteem,

When you do not let others help you.

You start dying slowly ;

If…

There’s so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who doesn’t. There’s a lot of wonderful time to be spent discovering yourself without hoping someone will fall in Love with you along the way, and it doesn't need to be painful or empty. You need to fill yourself up with Love. Not anyone…

"Today was a Difficult Day," said Pooh.

There was a pause.

"Do you want to talk about it?" asked Piglet.

"No," said Pooh after a bit. "No, I don't think I do."

"That's okay," said Piglet, and he came and sat beside his friend.

"What are you doing?" asked Pooh.

"Nothing, really," said Piglet. "Only, I…

Patti Smith on the biggest misconception about her...

"The thing that bothered me the most was when I had to return to the public eye in ’95 or ’96 when my husband died. We lived a very simple lifestyle in a more reclusive way in which he was king of our domain. I don’t drive, I didn’t have much of an income, and without him, I…

The greatest achievement is selflessness.

The greatest worth is self-mastery.

The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.

The greatest precept is continual awareness.

The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.

The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.

The greatest magic…

In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other:

“Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”

“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would…

“People and the Souls Near Them” - Romania

- photo. ©Vlad Dumitrescu

I never intended to work on a project that brings together people and animals. But people have always been my main subject, and the animals have always been around. I have always found them alongside people in moments of rest or work, but they were always there, almost as life partners. This topic quickly began to attract me. Portraits together or simple moments of life gatherd in a collection that…

Rotatory

thy, my, thour

shared prayer spinning

distinguish,

then collapse distinction separating our appeals to the gods and

men moving soldiers ~~~~~

Life force flowing obstructed,…

Art is a universal language. Through our understanding of that language, we connect ourselves with each other, and come together, even without knowing that we do. It is not one artist who has a great message. By connecting ourselves to each other, we become part of the greatness.

~ Yoko Ono

Create connections rather than disconnections

Create belonging rather than separation.

Create co-operation rather than discord.

Every time you open your mouth there is an opportunity to choose to plant fertile seeds of connection or sour seeds of disconnection.

In today's times, we need all the collective connections we can…

Luna, calm me down.

Moon calm me - I need your light.

Get me drunk on whatever you want, but get me drunk.

I am a spy forgotten in the house of someone else's love.

I've lost touch with the world that doesn't exist.

Rain in the North, snow in the…

Me: Hey God.

God: Hey John.

Me: What should I say to somebody who is about to die?

God: The exact same things you should say to everybody else whenever you have a chance.

Me: What’s that?

God:   I love you.

          I love you so.

          I forgive you.

          I’m…

after the war

     we will wring our hands

and wonder how humans

could show so little humanity

to each other

after the war

     we will tie ribbons on trees

and shake our heads whenever we

see pictures of hospitals that were

bombed into inhospitable ruins

after the war

     we…