Dünyaya nasıl göründüğümü bilmiyorum
ama ben kendimi, henüz keşfedilmemiş gerçeklerle dolu bir okyanusun kıyısında oynayan, düzgün bir çakıl taşı ya da güzel bir deniz kabuğu bulduğu…nda sevinen bir çocuk gibi görüyorum. ~ Isaac NewtonJune 2011
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What do you think an artist is?
…he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.” ~ Pablo Picasso
Kişi, aydınlık figürler imgeleyerek değil,
karanlığın bilincine vararak aydınlanabilr. Ancak bahsi geçen ikinci yöntem tatsızdır ve bu nedenle tercih edilmez. ~ Carl Jung
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
The mind then gives form to the creative impulse or insight. Even the great scientists have reported that their creative breakthroughs came at a time of mental quietude.
The surprising result of a nation-wide inquiry among America’s most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking ‘plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself.’ So I would say that the simple reason why the majority of scientists are not creative is not because they don’t know how to think but because they don’t know how to stop thinking!
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some super-human accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way
but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form. The inability to feel this connectedness gives rise to the illusion of separation, from yourself and from the world around you. You then perceive yourself, consciously or unconsciously, as an isolated fragment. Fear arises, and conflict within and without becomes the norm.
I love the Buddha’s simple definition of enlightenment as “the end of suffering.” There is nothing superhuman in that, is there? Of course, as a definition, it is incomplete. It only tells you what enlightenment is not: no suffering. But what’s left when there is no more suffering? The Buddha is silent on that, and his silence implies that you’ll have to find out for yourself. He uses a negative definition so that the mind cannot make it into something to believe in or into a superhuman accomplishment, a goal that is impossible for you to attain. Despite this precaution, the majority of Buddhists still believe that enlightenment is for the Buddha, not for them, at least not in this lifetime.
~Eckhart Tolle
Enlightenment means ..
rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before.
~Eckhart Tolle
great insight Tori..and so true..
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.” ~Tori Amos
birikim
“Senin o kalın yalnızlıklarını biriktir,
Aman diyeyim,
kendini öyle bir sakla ki,
el süremesin bencilliklerine kimse.
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Günü gelir,
bozdurur bozdurur harcarsın.
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Birinin başını yakmadan,
tutuşmayacak aklının ucu.”
By 3 methods we may learn wisdom:
1st,by reflection,which is noblest;2nd, by imitation,which is easiest; 3rd by experience,which is the bitterest. ~Confucius
