A Quote from Albert Einstein

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."

A Haiku

I am like a tree
Leaves, no leaves, then leaves again
Again and again

Exegesis of Mind 1.3: Compassion Matters

I'm not going to solve all the world's problems, neither are you.  Pain and suffering are happening and are going to happen, it's the ultimate Catch-22, we can't conceptualize peace/pleasure/bliss without knowledge of strife/pain/unrest.  Compassion matters though.  Compassion is a statement of connection, of awareness, and ultimately of metaphysical cultivation and maturation; because it's also a clear, unabashed acknowledgment of the deficits and depressions of the human condition, and a willful enterprise towards lessening them as much as possible.

Art too, can serve this role.  Excelsior.

Song of the Week: "Tenderly" by Chet Baker

Drawing: Ship Wheel w/ Swallows

Graphite on Strathmore Drawing Paper
Another drawing that was designed to be a tattoo.

Song of the Week: "The Enchantment" by Sheila Chandra

Exegesis of Mind 1.2: The Seeming and The Meaning

I note the interaction between the seeming and the meaning, but in my daily life; what I need to be sacred.  I note it, but do not always enjoy it.  How can the existence of God be arbitrary, when some find it in everything, and some do not find it at all?

In other words, this is not a pipe.

It is the mystery.  If there were no mystery, no dynamic between the seeming and the meaning, life itself would be indelibly dull, aside from the more sensual-based stimuli of food, the elements, or copulation, which clearly have their merits, but subside.  The strings that pull on the heart are attached to the seemings and the meanings.  They are attached to ideas intermixed with instincts, the nebulous intertwined with the known.  This alchemy is made seen, heard, felt, in art.  God is art. Art is nature.  God is nature.  Art is the mystery, nature is the mystery, the work is the mystery, the art is the mystery, the mystery is God.

Excelsior.