14 Jul The Purpose of Rain
We are drops of water raining from the sky. Why wonder why as it's clear when we die in the ground, river or sea our purpose is just to be....
13 Jul The Present Guides Us to the Future
It's hard to see forward when looking back at the past. Those who understand the present in the context of the past are poor at seeing the future. Those who know the present are best at seeing the future. For example, let's say a stock is trading now at a price of $45/share. If we know everything about the history of the stock and how it traded relative to other stocks, relative to its earnings and all other metrics; we will not be as good at predicting the price at which it will trade next week as will the person who knows only that it is trading now at $45....
12 Jul Pablo Picasso
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." A corollary: don't do anything today you can put off and do tomorrow; tomorrow may never come, so why have regrets of having wasted your time in life doing something that didn't need to be done; this is wisdom, not laziness. Taken together, Picasso's proposition and the corollary guide us to live without regrets....
11 Jul Big city, small minds
Those who live in a city and view others who live in the suburbs as provincial are themselves provincial, viewing the world through simple categories....
09 Jul The Wonder of Creation
Between the drum beats of the pulse between the motion of breathing there is an empty space where all is still. When young, I anxiously waited in the empty space for the next beat or breath to engage my attention. Now, I rest in the empty space where nothingness reigns. From here, I can appreciate the wonder of creation....
08 Jul Charles Bukowski
"You have to die a few times before you can really live." Every evening we die, every morning we are born again; some resemblance to the person we were yesterday. Other than the similar to yesterday's circumstances in which we find ourselves when we are reborn in the morning, everything is completely new today, unique. This newness stirs us and we can awaken to really live the only life we ever have which is today. When we identify with the person we were in past lives (passed days of our lives as it's conventionally known) and believe that person never died (that we are that same person today), we experience today in the context of our past; a life based on stories our mind has created. Unless we recognize we died heretofore, we cannot really live....
01 Jul Discerning or Sophisticated
When we purchase an artwork, we are in fact purchasing two things, the thing and its price. The discerning buyer knows that. The sophisticated buyer does not. The discerning buyer, by definition, has good judgement; can see the quality of something and it's relative price. The sophisticated buyer knows much about fashion and culture. However, they are often a sucker for sophism, a specious argument used for deception. They look at an artwork with their ears, not their eyes....
29 Jun Enlightenment
Enlightenment is simply being one with light. Light, the visual form of energy, is the essence of everything. Enlightenment is being one with everything. To the enlightened, this realization is manifested in the many faces of enlightenment. As E=M*C*C (energy equals mass times the speed of light squared) is M=E/C*C (mass (all that there is) is energy divided (slowed down) dramatically by the speed of light squared), all things are essentially infinite manifestations of light. As energy is all there is, all things (however seemingly real and independent of energy) are just an illusion disguising energy. As energy is all there is, the Big Bang is all there is. The Big Bang happens at one time. Hence, there is no such thing as time. The appearance of things sequentially is an illusion that creates the illusion of time as well....
23 Jun Albert Einstein
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." When the mind is calm it doesn't engage us in a wrestling match. We can then deploy it to observe the infinite manifestations of the universe and create an order of things that make temporary sense of it all. In the preceding sentence, the second "it" is ambiguous; unclear if "it" refers to mind or universe or both or neither. Maybe all that can be said is that it is what it is whatever it is....