autumn leaves (11 May 2012)
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Inside each of us,
there’s continual autumn.
Our leaves fall and are blown out
over the water.
contours (05 Jan 2012)
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Wherever we look
we see what is not there … thus
creating our world.
In the dark, dripping
oleanders crowd around,
ivy sluices my
shirt-sleeves, crushed geranium
sprigs perfume the gravel path.
cmyk volume 52 – cover
You have no friends.
You have no enemies.
You only have teachers.
(James Victore)
Recently described as “part Darth Vader, part Yoda,” James Victore has gained a reputation for “timely wisdom and impassioned views about design and its place in the world” – views he expresses through his numerous lectures, workshops, and writings. (The Wikipedia article is cited on page 92 of CMYK magazine, Volume 52)
Victore continues: “Teach your tongue to say, ‘I don’t know.’ Ask for help. Search out mentors. For anything you want to do in your life there is someone who has gone before. Ask for help and seek good advice.” (James Victore, on page 90 of CMYK magazine, Volume 52)
A page of a copy circa 1503 of the Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i
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Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you.
Unfold your own myth.
Speak a new language so
that the world will be a new world.
The work is always inside you.
This knot does not get untied
by listening to the stories of other people.
Everything in the universe is within you.
Ask all from yourself.
(Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī).
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The text of this post has been assembled using quotations from poetry by Rūmī.
The image depicts Shams of Tabriz (Rūmī’s spiritual master) as portrayed in a 1503 painting in a copy of Rūmī’s poem dedicated to Shams.
When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change. (Mel Hantz)
No, this isn’t about altering your appearance – it’s about our ability to change how the world appears, how things seem to us … how life affects us. And it’s also about the impact we can have on those around us, those we work with, those we love.
“How you experience your life depends on how you look at it,” according to Neale Donald Walsch. “If you look at it as a constant stream of difficulties and challenges, messes and problems, it will show up that way. If, on the other hand, you see it as a continuing flow of good fortune, one good thing after another, that is what you will encounter.” (Neale Donald Walsch)
“Be the person you are,” Osho urged his followers. “Never try to be another.”
“Do or do not,” Yoda told Luke Skywalker. “There is no try.”
Osho talked about “accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself …”
But take careful note: no way do I see this as an excuse for behaving badly! Accepting responsibility for my actions is crucial.
And do you remember how the scene ends?
“I don’t … I don’t believe it,” Luke admits.
“That is why you fail,” says Yoda.
Northerly blowing;
citrus moon plays peekaboo
behind wind-torn clouds.
This is no divine
pronouncement, not the voice of
God – just opinion.
Out at the edge of
what I see clearly, something
flutters, half-perceived:
red plaid shirt, spiked black hair … ah!
there! a monarch butterfly.
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