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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Pablo Picasso
"You must do the things you think you cannot do"
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
anybody who makes stuff up and sells it is an artist.
-frank zappa
...to me, painting a pure abstraction is like playing tennis with out the ball.
I am learning about myself—not according to some psychologist or
specialist—I am watching and I see something in myself; but I do not
condemn it, I do not judge it, I do not push it aside—I just watch it.
I watch that I am proud—let us take that as an example. I do not say,
“I must put it aside, how ugly to be proud.”—but I just watch it. As I
am watching, I am learning. Watching means learning what pride
involves, how it has come into being. I cannot watch it for more than
five or six minutes—if one can, that is a great deal—the next moment I
become inattentive. Having been attentive and knowing what inattention
is, I struggle to make inattention attentive. Do not do that, but watch
inattention, become aware that you are inattentive—that is all. Stop
there. Do not say, “I must spend all my time being attentive”, but just
watch when you are inattentive. To go any further into this would be
really quite complex . There is a quality of mind that is awake and
watching all the time, watching though there is nothing to learn. That
means a mind that is extraordinarily quiet, extraordinarily silent.
What has a silent, clear mind to learn?
J.Krishnamurti
"To me there is no past or future in art. The art of the great
painters who lived in other times is not an art of the past; perhaps it
is more alive today than it ever was."
--Pablo Picasso
You have to have this extraordinary feeling, this sensitivity to
everything—to the animal, to the cat that walks across the wall, to the
squalor, the dirt, the filth of human beings in poverty, in despair.
You have to be sensitive—which is to feel intensely, not in any
particular direction, which is not an emotion which comes and goes, but
which is to be sensitive with your nerves, with your eyes, with your
body, with your ears, with your voice. You have to be sensitive
completely all the time. Unless you are so completely sensitive, there
is no intelligence. Intelligence comes with sensitivity and
observation.Sensitivity does not come with infinite knowledge and
information. You may know all the books in the world; you may have read
them, devoured them; you may be familiar with every author; you may
know all the things that have been said; but that does not bring
intelligence. What brings intelligence is this sensitivity, a total
sensitivity of your mind, conscious as well as unconscious, and of your
heart with its extraordinary capacities of affection, sympathy,
generosity. And with that comes this intense feeling, feeling for the
leaf that falls from a tree with all its dying colours and the squalor
of a filthy street—you have to be sensitive to both; you cannot be
sensitive to the one and insensitive to the other. You are
sensitive—not merely to the one or the other.
j.krishnamurti
Democracy don`t rule the world, You`d better get that in your head;
This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that`s better left unsaid.
Bob Dylan
To
be alone is essential for man to be uninfluenced, for something uncontaminated
to take place. For this aloneness there seems to be no time, there
are too many things to do, too many responsibilities and so on. To learn to
be quiet, shutting oneself in one's room, to give the mind a rest, becomes a necessity.
Love is part of this aloneness. To be simple, clear, and inwardly quiet, is
to have that flame.
Krishnamurti
You can't deny, the other side
Don't want to die anymore then we do
What I'm trying to say is don't they pray
to the same god that we do?
And tell me how does god choose
whose prayers does he refuse?
Who turns the wheel
Who throws the dice
on the day after tomorrow
I'm not fighting, for justice
I am not fighting, for freedom
I am fighting, for my life
and another day in the world here
I just do what I've been told
We're just the gravel on the road
And only the lucky ones come home
on the day after tomorrow
And the summer, it too will fade
and with it brings the winter's frost dear
And I know we too are made
of all the things that we have lost here
I'll be 21 today
I been saving all my pay
And my plane will touch down
on the day after tomorrow
And my plane it will touch down
on the day after tomorrow
[ Day After Tomorrow Lyrics by Tom Waits ]
One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment.
But first you must learn how to keep it in mind
GI Gurdjeff
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
-Robert Frost
Meditation
is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one
cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it. It has
no technique and therefore no authority.
— Krishnamurti
Awakening is not the conquest of a state of higher consciousness. It is a movement, repeatedly attempted and repeatedly denied, a return to the consciousness of what is.”“
.......Because the only thing you get to keep is what you give away...
Francis Dunnery
This much I know
Brian Wilson, musician, 66, London
The big disappointment I feel about my life is that I didn't have more wisdom when it came to taking drugs. Drugs laid me out for years.
Applause sounds good.
You start to believe people really like your stuff when they give you a
10-minute standing ovation. I don't know when it would get boring -
maybe after half an hour.
When I was eight I used to copy Rosemary Clooney singing, 'The evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly, the trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly.'
A beautiful horn is my favourite sound in the world. If I could play a saxophone, that's what I'd be doing. But I can't play a saxophone.
Big Brian isn't scared of anybody and Little Brian is scared of everybody.
Only my left ear works properly, the right is deaf.
So I've never heard music in stereo, or both sides of the audience
together. It's kind of depressing, but it's all right. One advantage is
I can lie on my left side in bed and not be bothered. I like peace and
quiet very much. I really do
Every night now I say this:
'The night was quiet and nature was resting and I was at peace.' And
then I can sleep. I made it up myself. Isn't that great? Saying it now
my eyes feel a little tired.
First thing in the morning, at seven, I wash my face.
I have my breakfast - an egg and Kellogg's cornflakes with skimmed milk
and Sweet'N'Low - and I try to get on with it. I work in my armchair
with a leg rest and I have my synthesiser on my lap. I'm a morning
person, creatively. I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices
saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and
they're usually worse in the afternoon.
Making music is like brain surgery - very sensitive, very delicate. Genius is the ability to make something very complex seem very simple.
If we'd been called the Peach Boys,
I don't think it would have made much difference to our success. We
were going to be the Pendletones, after a sweater everyone was wearing,
or the Beach Bums. A group's name is not very important. For one year
[1969] I owned a health food shop I called the Radiant Radish. I spent
too much money on produce, there wasn't much money coming in and we
went bankrupt. But that was a great name.
When I hear really fabulous music by somebody else, I can feel as small as the dot in the 'i' in nit.
I used to run laps around the park, now I walk laps. Exercise is my hobby.
It will only take a slight little idea, a starting melody, to make my whole day.
When the child was a child
It was the time of the following questions
Why am I me and why not you
Why am I here and why not there
Why did time begin and where does space end
Isnt what I see and hear and smell
Just the appearance of the world in front of the world
Isnt life under the sun just a dream
Does evil actually exist in people
Who really are evil
Why cant it be that I who am
Wasnt before I was
And that sometime i, the i, I am
No longer will be the i, I am
Van Morrison/ Peter Hanke
When you get to the fork in the road, take it
Yogi Berra
An image of hell; a stylish shoe.
G.I Gurdjieff
Conscious love evokes the same in response.
Emotional love evokes the opposite.
Physical love depends on type and polarity.
G.I.Gurdjieff
They say that patriotism is the last refuge
To which a scoundrel clings;
Steal a little, they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they'll make you king
Bob Dylan
It seems to me that one of the greatest stumbling blocks in life is this constant struggle to reach, to achieve, to acquire. We are trained from childhood to acquire and to achieve – the very brain cells themselves create and demand this pattern of achievement in order to have physical security, but psychological security is not within the field of achievement. We demand security in all our relationships, attitudes and activities but, as we have seen, there is actually no such thing as security. To find out for yourself that there is no form of security in any relationship – to realize that psychologically there is nothing permanent – gives a totally different approach to life. It is essential, of course, to have outward security – shelter, clothing, food – but that outward security is destroyed by the demand for psychological security.
J. Krishnamurti
"When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a
child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away
childish things." I Cor. xiii. 11.
"The brain deals exclusively with camouflage
patterns, transforming vitality into physical environmental camouflage
patterns. The mind deals with basic principles inherent on all planes.
The brain is itself part of the camouflage pattern, and can be
interpreted and probed by physical instruments. The mind cannot be
probed by physical instruments. It cannot even be found by physical
instruments. The mind is the connective. It is here that the secrets of
the universe will be discovered, and the mind itself is the tool of
discovery."
Session 19, Page 137 Jane Roberts/ Seth
"Only a shallow man refuses to judge by appearances"
Oscar Wilde
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. Matthew 15:11
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