THE [NOT SO] STARVING ARTIST: thoughts

thoughtful inspirations and what not

5/25/12

"Awareness of our mortality makes every moment precious so the purpose of life can become the expansion." -Deepak Chopra
"See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and Karma." -Neem Karoli Baba
"Religion is exclusive, spirituality is inclusive." -Deepak
"All that ever was & all that will ever be is also now." -Deepak
"He who looks outside dreams; he who looks within awakens." --Jung
"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"Consciousness is universal. Perspective is personal." -Deepak

5/6/12

I need to live by this one more often. "Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener" -Deepak Chopra
"Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives." - Ram Dass
"Don't compare your path with anybody else's. Your path is unique to you. Whatever path you take, it's God calling you." - Ram Dass
Affirm today that you can feel loved within yourself, even after a great loss. Break through the illusion of despair.-"Deepak Chopra

11/15/11 "Be mindful of how you release your negativity so that it does not reflect back into your reality." -Deepak Chopra #Leela
11/2/11 "The source of our existence is the source of all existence. By transcending our ego identity, we connect with it." -Deepak Chopra
10/31/11

"Occupy Your Mind" - my hubby
"I Am The Universe" - Deepak Chopra
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." -Eliz. B. Browning
"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie." -Bob Dylan
"Consciousness regulates and becomes the flow of energy and information in your body, your relationships, and your world." -Deepak Chopra
"The universe is experienced in consciousness alone & we are all part of that one consciousness." -Deepak Chopra
"Addiction in my opinion is a spiritual search for exultation of spirit or God. The only solution to addiction is spiritual." -Deepak Chopra
"At all times your world is a projection of yourself. Expansion of self to universal awareness is enlightenment." - Deepak again!
"I could be martyr'd for my religion/ Love is my religion/ And I could die for that." - Keats

7/2/11 "Poetry is a raid on the inarticulate." - TS Elliot
7/2/11 "Instead of looking for the right person, become the right person." "In every ending is a beginning." "Every boundary is conceptual & therefore imaginary." -Deepak Chopra
7/2/11 "I make it a point to take time with my food:)" Samantha Lamb
6/20/11 "There is One consciousness -- God consciousness more or less awake to its identity. When an artist comes into alignment with the primal creative force, they are moved toward expressions of depth and authenticity, and their works are in service to the Great Creation." - Alex Grey and Allyson Grey

6/20/11 "Throughout history it has been the artist's role to look for patterns of perception and new ways expressing our sacred connection. With this awareness, new realities have formed in the mind of humanity." - Alan Steinfeld

6/20/11 "Relinquish the need for approval & control. This means your actions are independent of the opinions of others & detached from expectations." -Deepak Chopra

6/6/11 "I am exactly where I need to be. I need to be exactly where I am. I am not aimlessly exsisting see. I am in perfect harmony with universal energy and I am truly free when I except my own divinity." Amy Steinberg
5/2/11 ‎"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." Jessica Dovey... "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -Martin Luther King Jr
4/27/11 "Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions-they pass no criticisms." -George Eliot
4/27/11 "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May/ And summer's lease hath all too short a date." - Shakespeare
4/20/11 "A closed mind is a dying mind." -Edna Ferber
4/4/11 "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become." - Buddha
3/30/11 "We need silence to be able to touch souls." -Mother Teresa
3/26/11 "Forever is composed of nows." - Emily Dickinson
3/17/11 "In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." - Deepak Chopra
3/15/11 "Happiness is inward and not outward; so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are." - Henry Van Dyke
3/15/11 Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." - Les Brown
2/9/11 “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” -Buddha
2/1/11 "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." - George F. Burns
1/26/11 "Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." - Titus Livius
1/6/11 "I was always fascinated by people who r considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all." -Johnny Depp
1/6/11 "Today you are you, that is truer than true, there is no one alive that is youer than you." -Dr. Seuss
12/27/10 "Live, think and act for today. Tomorrow may be too late." -my fortune cookie at dinner.
12/19/10 "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
11/21/10 "If what you seek you find not within, you will never find it without." -bumper sticker I saw in Edmond
10/19/10 "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." -Dumbledore (JK Rowling)
10/14/10 "It is our choices... that show what we truly are,far more than our abilities." -JK Rowling
10/10/10 "Realize that true happiness lies within." -Lucian
10/10/10 "In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." - Deepak Chopra... love this guy!
10/8/10 "Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are." - Henry Van Dyke
10/1/10 "The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James
9/27/10 "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
9/15/10 "One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
9/13/10 "Sociability is just a big smile, and a big smile is nothing but teeth." Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums
9/13/10 "Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream" Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums
9/13/10 “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” Jack Kerouac On The Road
9/7/10 "It is better to burn out than to fade away." Neil Young
9/5/10 "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha
9/1/10 "Love what you do. Do what you love." - Wayne Dyer
8/31/10 "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung
8/27/10 "I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process." - Vincent Van Gogh
8/25/10 "You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." CS Lewis- one of my favorite authors, such a great quote!
8/25/10 "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." - Maya Angelou
8/18/10 "We are what we think. With our thoughts, we make our world" Buddha
7/30/10 "Only truth can set you free. Be the one you want to be." The Orb
7/25/10 "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds." Bob Marley
7/13/10 "Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." John Lennon
7/5/10 "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
7/4/10 "Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, toughness begets a greater toughness." MLK
7/4/10"Imagine there's no countries; It isn't hard to do; Nothing to kill or die for; And no religion too; Imagine all the people; Living life in peace." John Lennon This is one I live by.