"My camera is the window through which I build extraordinary friendships which in turn deepen my perceptions, teach me meaning, and encourage me to disentangle from my thin, frayed safety-lines.
. The Creators quoted below were all blessed with a passion for discovery.
…that camera needs to be there with you.
Andy Warhol said it first, and I’m saying it again—carry Her with you everywhere you go, for you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
Ansel Adams was able to describe experience that relates to the spiritual awakening of discovery.....
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." - Ansel Adams
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
Diane Arbus
I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heart of the known awaits just around the corner.
Alex Webb
The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.
Brassai
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Henry Miller
Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).
Henri Cartier-Bresson
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's ) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.
-Susan Sontag,
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
-Peter Adams
Beginner's Mind
This is the real secret of the arts:
Always be a beginner.
Then we can really learn something.
In the beginner's mind
There is no thought,
"I have attained something."
If you keep your original mind,
The precepts will keep themselves.
- anon
All humans when searching in wonder
and awe can find wisdom
- that possibility lies in all the arts - but without self knowledge all is hollow and empty.
Nicholas Hlobeczy, from A Presence Behind the Lens
In the end, the relationships we form with each other and with the people we photograph are much more important than stories or pictures.
Erich Lessing
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
Dorothea Lange
Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the seeking of truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.
Leonard Freed
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Gandhi
"Being photographed does not make a man a good writer. It doesn't make a man anything."
Jimmie Dale Gilmore Led Zeppelin Johnny Horton Buck Owens... Et all.
Movies
Spider baby
Television
Dr Who
Books
Some short stories by William Jablonsky, the indestructible man , Tao Te Ching- Lao-Tzu. Hemmingway , Salinger, Rand, Clarke, Niven. Steven Kings; the dark tower series, Illusions,The Dharma Bums. The Prophet, Descartes Error,The Gnostic Gospels, Flannery Oconner, Harry Crews, The Fountianhead, Atlas Schrugged , A movable feast, Frannie and Zooey, History of everything, Ken wilber. Anything by J.W.Coetzee. et all
I've been told that I'm my own worst enemy. After years of careful consideration I think that this just might be true.
I can also be sidetracked by bright shiny things. Especially if they are just out of my reach....
I strive for moderation, but continue to miss it horribly.
TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real, life is earnest,
And the grave is not its goal,
Dust you are, to dust returnest,
Was not said about the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
Be not dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time.
from A Psalm of Life (1839) by Henry Wadsworth
Theres never nothing going on...Socrates
In remembrance of The People as they were
of Customs, of Pride, of Rituals
In remembrance of the Animals as they were
of Substance shared, of Teachings offered
In remembrance of the Birds as they were
of Grace, of Majesty, of Mystery
In remembrance of the Insects as they were
of Living Wisdom, of Necessary order
In remembrance of the Plants as they were
of Flowers, of Grasses, of Trees
In remembrance of the Reptiles as they were
of Eerie Beauty, of Natural Purpose
In remembrance of the Heavens as they were
of Clarity, of Seasons, of Spirit World
In remembrance of the Waters as they were
Of Abundant Life, of Sacred Purity
In remembrance of the Lands as they were
of Freedom, of Harmony, of Oneness
Shirley Loatman Pharis 1995
Come, weigh me the weight of the fire
or measure me the measure of the wind
or recall me the day that is past.
IV Ezra
Life piled on life..
We are all too little, and of one of me,
Little remains; ...yet every hour is saved
from that eternal silence, something more...
A bringer of new things: And vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this grey spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond that utmost bound of human thought.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down.
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Archilles, whom we knew.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
-- ULYSSES
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The dude abides." Jeffrey Lebowski- The Dude
" Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly." (Eskimo proverb).
""I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
Henry Miller
"Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble.
is one of the most essential parts of spirituality."
-osho
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."
-- Lin Yutang
Do you feel a desire to simplify your life?
If you say yes, then set an intention to reduce the demands, stimuli, interruptions and busyness in your life. We each have the power to do this we simply have to begin to say no to those activities that dont directly serve what we want for our lives.
Everyone of this planet deserves to have some free time to think, relax and have fun. If you long for this, begin now to clear your plate and allow a new level of experience to happen in your life. Take charge. Eliminate time wasters. Make some decisions about what matters to you.
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
-- Hans Hofmann
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"To move forward clinging to the past is like dragging a ball and chain. The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. We are all guilty of crime, the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power." Henry Miller
The voice of past harm is a liar. By all the powers that roam this galaxy, you are forgiven. Step forward and find your own maximum. You will be a long time reaching, for you are unlimited...
the poetic edda - havamal - 6th century
That man is fortunate who, in himself,
keeps his reputation and wits while he lives;
for men have often received bad advice
from another's heart.
unknown
"Be careful how you live; you may be the only Bible some people ever read".
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." - Charles Dickens
"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge." Audre Lorde
"Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love." Virgil
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." Sophocles
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"There is no remedy for love but to love more." Henry David Thoreau
"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Maria Rilke
"We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another." Luciano de Crescenzo
"Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need."
Mary Baker Eddy
“For as long as space endures
And for as long as living beings remain,
Until then may I too abide
To dispel the misery of the world.”
"I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love." Mahatma Gandhi
"you have come for knowledge. there will be pleasure. because knowledge is sexy. there will also be pain. because knowledge is torture.
Jeff Noon
I Am Done With Great Things by Desolate Places.
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride. . William James
"judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven. - luke 6:37
"There is a reason this moment is called the present -- because every opportunity you get to pay attention to what's going on is truly a gift. So if a circumstance is intense or feelings are running high, learn to focus on the reality going on in front of you rather than running away or trying to soften it with some illusion of your own making. Comprehending the totality of an experience is invaluable beyond words". -
Living beings are without number;
I vow to row them to the other shore.
Defilements are without number;
I vow to remove them from myself.
The teachings are immeasurable;
I vow to study and practice them.
The way is very long;
I vow to arrive at the end.
four vows of the bodhisattva
I am of the nature to grow old.
There is no way to escape growing old.
I am of the nature to have ill-health.
There is no way to escape having ill-health.
I am of the nature to die.
There is no way to escape death.
All that is dear to me and everyone I love
are of the nature to change.
There is no way to escape being separated from them.
My actions are my only true belongings.
I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.
My actions are the ground on which I stand.
Buddha
Matthew's Gospel ends with the marvellous statement: Know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.
Do everything with a mind that lets go.
Do not expect any praise or reward.
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace.
If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.
If you let go completely, you will know complete peace and freedom.
Your struggles with the world
will have come to an end.
hey Jeff, thanx for the nice comment! we will have a baby girl in mid july- if god will- will be back in nashville around may next year- with our baby.... all the best- will keep in touch- your friends from germany Eric and Silky
I am happy to get between my friends ! Today by pure chance i found you . I hope you're well and i wish you a peacful and happy weekend . Affectionately and friendship Mari
Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly -- not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. N.T.
Hello! Nice to hear from you! Actually, my day is gray, chilly and rainy! Damn Seattle! LOL!! But, thank you for the sentiments! Hope you are doing great!!
