Bits of Bliss

Encoded Within You

2010-11-13T12:10:00.000-08:00

“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released”

Jean Houston

Image One: Lyubov Popova, Painterly Architectonics with Yellow Board

Image Two: Cel Overberghe

Beyond Fear

2010-11-04T22:07:00.000-07:00

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed - Michael Pritchard

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way - Babe Ruth

Image One: Richard Serra

Image Two: Mark Leuthold

Act on Ideas

2010-09-29T09:58:00.000-07:00

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important

than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

Buddha

Start Here

2010-07-31T12:01:00.000-07:00

Our Visions begin with our Desires.

Name your desires and draw your visions boldly.

Audre Lorde remix

Images: Wangechi Mutu

Long Tail Thriving

2010-07-12T07:46:00.000-07:00

"Perseverance is not a long race. It is many short races one after the other." When running multiple short races simultaneously, keep in mind that stamina comes from the effort to endure and the ability to care for one's self along the way: No marathoner has ever won a race without stopping periodically for water and replenishment.

Walter Elliot remix

Rocks in Water by Jag

Seaweed Splash by Wendy Middlemass

"Stars of Everything"

2010-07-02T06:52:00.000-07:00

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Panjali

Images: Truths 2 and Stars of Everything by Thornton Dial

For Sonic Stars see Stars of the Lid

Conquering Fear

2010-06-10T08:40:00.000-07:00

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

Old Woman Bay by Mandy Budan

Fighting Cock by Charlie Lightcap

Mindfulness Makes the World

2010-05-30T18:32:00.001-07:00

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Brain by Kazuya Akimoto * Should be viewed at full scale - the details are stunning.

"Pelvis" by Georgia O'Keefe

Wild Sky & Joy

2010-05-24T05:25:00.000-07:00

"Joy delights in joy.” Ignite yourself with a smile, a gentle giggle, a deserved laughter and feel it ripple throughout your spirit into the purview of the day.

Shakespeare extended

Wild Blue Yonder Richard Luschek

Square Swirls David Kozlowski

Compassion's Cure

2010-02-17T09:25:00.000-08:00

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'

Conor Oberst

Take some time this week to literally or figuratively hold someone's hand as they seek to heal or recover from life's challenges. Extend compassion to the life of another knowing that compassion heals not only those we express it towards, but ourselves as well.

Right Image: Composition by Wayne Sleeth
Left Image: Abstracted Water Color by PopArt Machine

2010-02-01T10:25:00.001-08:00

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

Image 1: Painting Sky by bdmaroon
Image 2: Painting Quads by Blueberry Mom

Speaking in the Butterfly Effect

2010-01-19T19:00:00.001-08:00

*, originally uploaded by lilion (J.Meszoly Beatrix).
'All change, all production and generation are effected through the word'...and bear affects throughout the world. Be aware then, of the world at large in which you live, and know that you too contribute to the creation of what is seen as well as what is possible.

Leopold Senghor Maroon Mashup

Image 2: Violet by Harwell

Trust Your Divinity's Intentions

2010-01-14T18:18:00.000-08:00

Si se Bondye Ki voye. Li pey fre ou.
If it is God who sends you, she'll pay your expenses.

What appears impossible is only waiting for your faith to ignite its realization in being. When it's the divine who has called you to your task Trust that the Divine will help you see that task through. No matter how bleak the everyday of it appears, no matter how unlikely the end goals may seem, Trust the Divine's call and have Faith that what is needed will be given in kind.

Haitian Proverb avec Maroon Remix

Image 1: Raoul Mathieu Untitled
Image 2: Haiti Arts Cooperative Spirit Flag

Bursting Wild Joy

2010-01-08T10:56:00.000-08:00

"All things can be used even anger" so "Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear," because Joy demands your brave and wildly vibrant attention.

Audre Lore/Zora Neale Hurston/ Maroon remix

Image 1: Litang Monastery China by Kevin Kelly
Image 2: Pigments at market in India

Exuberant Choices

2010-01-05T08:44:00.001-08:00

Georgia, originally uploaded by judy stalus.

Everyday is a field of paths, of directions beckoning, of succulent calls toward the unknown. Choose your actions as if they will bind you to forever. Yet live through your actions knowing they are but momentary steps toward the transformative, for our paths to peace are infinite and transcendent.

b.d.maroon

Artwork 2: Fork in The Road by Patrick Smith

Touch

2009-11-16T16:22:00.001-08:00

WonderWing, originally uploaded by Mr. Greenjeans.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
-- Buddha

New and Bold

2009-09-04T08:38:00.001-07:00

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasgow

String of Spheres by Ann Aldred

Abstract Blue and Green by an anonymous Miles Davis Listener

Your Trail of Inspiration

2009-08-21T07:07:00.001-07:00

'Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.' Easily written, easily said. More challenging to carry out. Whenever stopped by fear of the unknown or thwarted by the ease of the familiar remember; becoming one's own 'never before seen Destiny' is an extraordinary act of organic inspiration not only for yourself, but for all those around you. Live in the truth of who you are and the road will follow...

Ralph Waldo Emerson Remix

Illustration: Hangin Out by Marian Johansen Ellis

Bamboo: Grounds of Tenryu-ji temple, in Arashiyama.

Quiet Inspiration

2009-08-11T13:23:00.001-07:00

“I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”

Brenda Ueland

Traditional Warli Painting

Notebooks - hyperlinked. Fifteen accounts of life, death, and everything that interferes., by Jenna Carver .

Fierce Peace

2009-08-06T16:17:00.001-07:00

"Everyday we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive." Know then that Peace is a fierce struggle, which can only be waged with peaceful action.

Thich Nhat Hahn Remix

The Freedom Dove, by Mohammad Reza Rostami.

Andy Goldsworthy Wall

Bursting With Being

2009-07-28T11:01:00.000-07:00

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

Peach Cobbler by Lauren Zorn
Color of Words II by Wosene Worke Kosrof

Courage Stands Up & Goes On

2009-07-21T07:40:00.000-07:00

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage
to continue that counts."

Winston Churchill

Fearless Joy

2009-07-11T09:28:00.001-07:00

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Abstract Peacock: Ndesign Studio

Caramel Geometry: Angelina Cornidez

Obstinate Calm

2009-06-30T07:05:00.001-07:00

Fluid Life, originally uploaded by givemetofu.

Obstinate fidelity to peaceful steps will bear your Hopes into the future's light; So turn gently your back on the temptations of anger's unpleasant paths.

Bahiyyih Maroon

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Scatter Some Joy

2009-06-11T07:57:00.000-07:00

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy...around us

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kissing Tea
Swirl: Cherie Hanson