Sometimes

Sometimes I feel like I’m running out of time, maybe this is the universe’s way of telling me that I’ve reached to end of my life, this would explain the urgency I feel to do something worthwhile with my life; before my time is up. Maybe my time is already up and the realization of this is just now dawning on me.

Things in life

Things in life go according to how the universe wants them to; not how we want them to or how we think things should be.

As I go

As I go through life I have had various people tell me, set a goal for yourself, then make it happen. Well that is a lot easier said than done. You can write down your plans all you want, that doesn’t mean your life is going to go according to your plan, you can even take action and work to achieve your goals, but that doesn’t mean things will go in your favor. You are just one step closer, to achieving what you want. But there could possibly be hundreds or thousands of steps to take, before you can finally say I’ve achieved my goal or made it happen. In hindsight: it could take a lifetime to achieve just one goal.

There is

2012

There is a yearning in my soul to be beyond whatever this is-ness is that I am currently experiencing, I need to be okay with “just being”.

We are Spiritual beings

January 2012

We are spiritual beings having a human experience.When we die our spirit or soul rejoins with that of the universe, the creator what could be more beautiful than that? Death is not the end, we are going back to that which we came from. At death we truly come full circle in Samsara, the wheel of life, we are whole again and the mysteries and secrets of the universe reveal themselves to us with perfect clarity.

My favorite quotes

Some of my favorite quotes
The following quotes are from Carlos Castaneda’s book a Separate Reality:

“You must wait patiently, knowing that you are waiting and what you are waiting for. That is the warrior’s way”

“What makes us unhappy is to want”

“He was very careful to establish that the world was whatever we perceive, in any manner we may choose to perceive. Don Juan maintained that perceiving the world entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us.”

“At times you really have no control and the forces of your life take you freely.”

“And thus the warrior treats the world as an endless mystery and what people do as an endless folly.”

“The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.”

“You have to come back to yourself, because there is no other way to live.”

“A man of knowledge is free…he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived.”

“The nightmare of materialism oppresses the soul of modern man.”
~Kandinsky

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“You can’t sell dreams on pieces of paper”
~anonymous

“The flipside of fear is, understanding”
~Rick Steves

“There is no I.”
~In every Buddhist Text

“The Real American Dream: We praise people who win and the losers get lost in obscurity.”
~Vietnam Veteran

“We live our entire lives so we can look good on paper”
~Kenny Little

“Success is how other people perceive you, Excellence is personal.”
~Quote taken from a self-help book

“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
~Steve Jobs

The following three quotes are taken from the book: Life Lessons by: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler

“It’s the life that was not lived that we regret.”

“You are whole and complete just the way you are”

“Let it go”

Untitled

Untitled

Medium: stretched canvas, acrylic paint, India ink

Year: 2008

work tablecloth

photo of my work tablecloth

Another World

Title: Another World

Medium: canvas board, acrylic paint, latex paint, string, mixed media

Year: 2011

Aqueous Motion

Title: Aqueous Motion

Medium: unstretched canvas, acrylic paint, latex paint, snow tex, high strength universal tinting colorants, tint mixing base

Year: 2012