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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…

death is the wildfire

that rips through

the forest of our life

it scorches the ground

it chars the the rocks

it engulfs the trees

death is the fire

that comes to consume

everything…

I'm not afraid

of evil

because

it can only kill

me once

~ but if I stand

against evil

I get to live

100,000 times

oh, Great Spirit,

help…

I am a human, not a robot. A living person on this part of the world, where springtime is about to come. I am longing for the beautiful early evenings, the return of the songbirds, the cranes. The return of hope and life after pandemic.

Winter is about to leave its grip, letting the first snowdrops pop up from the…

That's the portrait that started my friendship with Stephen Alcorn. I liked his work, called him up, and commissioned a linoleum cut for the jacket of my forthcoming CD, released in the autumn of 1997. Sure, I'm a visionary too, however only cultural heroes applied to the Almanac project he asked me to write for him a few years later.

It's a…

 I just listened to this 15mins message to the Canadian truckers and thought to post it.. its about holding fast to integrity and human dignity..

 Dr. Robert Malone's Urgent Message To Freedom Convoy About Canada's Fascist Globalist Government - Rumble

It says in the Tao, “Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.”

The way I hear this in psychology is: motivation affects perception. When I’m hungry I see what’s edible. If I’m horny, I see what’s makeable. If I’m tired, I see what’s soft, you know, my motivation selects out of the infinity of the universe what it is that fits…

Dalai Lama

I am now 86 years old. At the age of 16…

This body of mine will disintegrate, but my actions will continue me… If you think I am only this body, then you have not truly seen me. When you look at my friends, you see my continuation. When you see someone walking with mindfulness and compassion, you know he is my continuation. I don’t see why we have to say “I will…

"This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died. Over there, the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies all manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which…

Beloved engaged Buddhist teacher and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away today, at the age of 95.

The International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism writes, "our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away peacefully at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam, at 00:00hrs on 22nd January, 2022, at the age of 95. We invite our global spiritual family to take a few moments to be still, to come back to our mindful breathing, as we together hold Thay in our hearts…

Sat there and drove

Dreamed the car was freshly painted

the world round and good

as the Buddha

The sky through the box was the same color

as a pale slide from the 70's

I was not crazy

Not locked up

Self-chosen loneliness and in it I traveled

Without apology, I drove out through dreamy streets

Captured a thriving…