Visible

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."

---Robert Bresson

Listen

"Sit, be still, and listen...because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof."

---Rumi

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Discipline

"Ecstasy is a discipline."

---Margot Anand

Architects

"Every man is the builder of a temple called his body."

---Henry David Thoreau

Me

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."

---Tallulah Bankhead

What we are

"In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more, we have to be able to be more; in order to be more you have to face rejection."

---Farrah Gray

Take Aim

"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself."

---Joel Hawes

Why?

"If they say 'why, why?'
Tell 'em that it's human nature.
Why, why, does he do me that way?
If they say 'why, why?'
Tell 'em that it's human nature.
Why, why, does he do me that way?
I like living this way."

---Michael Jackson, from the song "Human Nature"

(They say "it always happens in Threes"...Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and now...)

Temptation

"I can resist anything but temptation."

---Oscar Wilde

Undisguised

"I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,: I am mad for it to be in contact with me."

---Walt Whitman

Routine

"Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine."

---Shunryu Suzuki

Three Stages

"All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident."

---Arthur Schopenhauer

Focus

"If it's in focus, it's pornography. If it's out of focus, it's art."

---Linda Hunt as 'Billy Kwan' in the 1982 film "The Year of Living Dangerously"

Excellence

"With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must also try to have and use it."

---Aristotle


photo: screen legend Yul Brynner

Now

"Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now."

---from "Suite Judy Blue Eyes", by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Exposure

"What you see, you become."

---Tom Bianchi (from the Vedas)

Ocean of Truth

"I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered."

---Isaac Newton

The Mirror

"The human body is above all the mirror of the soul, and from the soul comes it's greatest beauty."

---Auguste Rodin

The Field

"Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."

---Rumi

Inside

Phil Donahue: "Where do you go for advice?"

Shirley MacLaine: "Inside."

Devotion

"I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life. I had and have no guilt whatsoever when it comes to pleasuring myself."

---Gloria Stewart, the actress who played 'The Old Lady' in James Cameron's "Titanic".

Creations

"We are so narrow-minded that we show war, murder, and rape on TV, but we are not allowed to show one of the most wonderful creations (the human body) in it's natural form."

---Mario Roman

Laugh!!

"Of course I know what a lesbian is! Wasn't Danny Thomas one?"

---'Blanche' (Rue McClanahan), on the TV sit-com "The Golden Girls"


R.I.P. Beatrice Arthur 5/13/22 - 4/25/09

Gemini

"You only live twice or so it seems
One life for yourself and one for your dreams.
You drift through the years and life seems tame
Til one dream appears and love is it's name.
And love is a stranger who'll beckon you on.
Don't think of the danger or the stranger is gone.
This dream is for you, so pay the price.
Make one dream come true, you only live twice."

---John Barry (title track to the 1967 'James Bond' film "You Only Live Twice")

Confidence

"True style comes from having the confidence to know yourself, your body, and feeling comfortable in your skin."

---Donna Karan

Fifty-Fifty

"Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got."

---Sophia Loren

Priorities

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes."

---Desiderius Erasmus

Volunteer

"We're in a free-fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. And as always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective...joyfully participate in the sorrows of the world and everything changes."

---Joseph Campbell, "Sukhavati--The Place of Bliss"