(this was originally a photo that I enhanced with digital paint)

i would rather have a mind
opened by wonder
than one closed by belief

gerry spence

Love seeketh not itself to please,

Nor for itself hath any care;

But for another gives its ease,

And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.
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So sang a little clod of clay

Trodden with the cattle’s feet,

But a pebble of the brook

Warbled out these metres meet.
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Love seeketh only self to please,

To bind another to its delight;

Joys in another’s loss of ease,

And builds a hell in heaven’s despite.

William Blake

Trying out a different look.

To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem
To meditate means to observe.
Your smile proves it.
It proves that you are being gentle with yourself,
that the sun of awareness is shining in you,
that you have control of your situation.
You are yourself,
and you have acquired some peace.

by Thich Nhat Hahn

Still in love with the Bush crowd? Check out this post:

How do we spell cover up?

This time I tried my hand at realism via still life.

This one was fun!

Similar technique (to Many Moons ), different colors, more subdued.

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”– Henry Ward Beecher

“The eye with which you see God is the same eye  with which God sees you”

Meister Eckhart

And another:

New work:

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

To comprehend and to understand God

above all similitudes, as He is in Himself,

is to be God with God, without intermediary,

and without any otherness that can be

come a hindrance or an intermediary.

Whosoever wishes to understand this

must have died to himself, and must live in God,

and must turn his gaze to the eternal light

in the ground of his spirit,

where the Hidden Truth reveals Itself

without means.

- Ruysbroek.