Thursday, April 5, 2012

About this book (blog)


       This book (blog) came about when I tried to take a break from being an “artist / writer.”  I don’t think I did a very good job at it, because I constantly found myself jotting down what “that little voice” inside me was sharing. 
        Then, one day, I noticed that this “voice” gave birth to a big stack of little papers that I didn’t know what to do with.  But soon, that same “little voice” said, “Take those words to work.”  So I grabbed the pile of papers and headed out the door to my job as a janitor.  In the days ahead, I created and compiled the following until my “little voice” said, “It’s done.” 

NOTE: Although this book (blog) has been laid out alphabetically by letter (A, B…etc.), you might notice that the topics below each letter have been placed in an order to create its own flow.  However, it can be read in various ways — from beginning to end, by individual letter, by topics drawn from the index, or in whichever way one sees fit.  Enjoy!!!

Dedication


To all whom have helped me hear
“that little voice.”

Me to We A to Z


Painting the Past

My soul felt like pails of paint
pouring out pigments on the prior pages.
Be it a splat, a stroke, a smear, or even a spray
on any day when my word was my expressive way.

A


Advice
Be mindful of who you share the truth with and masterful of how you share it.
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If I withhold what is to be told about getting old, I will just feel more age slowing any enlightened stage.
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Be cautious of getting advice from weak minds that are just trying to be nice.
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Who am I to say another is wrong if I have not found myself right.

Answers
Don’t look for answers unless you have found the right question.
---
We don’t find answers they find us.

Alignment
In time, the body will align with the health of the mind.

Action
Be in action not for attraction or distraction but out of compassion. 

Art
Art shall exercise one’s ability to look at things differently.
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Without art, we are robots.
With art, we are humans.
---
Sometimes, art needs to age to diminish the expresser’s rage, and only then can it resonate and maybe fuel our fate.

Artist
An Artist’s Tools:
Head, heart, and hands
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Artists don’t worry about going crazy; they’re more concerned with not playing a “sane game.”
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It is hard to say, “I have a career as an artist,” yet it is easier to understand that “I have a life as an artist.”
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All else is part-time work, outside of my art.
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The artists who lack fear are the ones I respect.                                     
[How much do I respect myself?]
Audience
There are those who praise my passion and others who employ my passion. Then there are those who just pass by.
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Void of audience, love what you do, and someone will find a way to love you, too.
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Will my word ever be heard? Because so often ears that need to hear are so concerned with what to earn rather than what is to be learned.

America
The material justification nation.
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I slept with America last night, and I arose stimulated to share what I saw in my dream.

Americans
The blessed mess of people in the West, always in search of a bigger nest, not knowing how to rest, yet still feel they are the best.

American Masters
Many American masters reach the apex of eventful experiences by integrating entertainment with enlightenment.

The ATM
Many people want to possess
Attention, Time, Money, or Mind.

Attachment
Sever the cord that connects attraction to attachment.
---
Attachment finds ways to fight with faith.

Anxiety
Anxiety is energy’s thief.

Approval
Don’t just do enough to get others’ approval.
Do so to get yours.
Do even more to get God’s.

Acceptances
We only truly see what we accept.

B


Believe
Believe in something enough that you are willing to die for it.
Love something enough that you are willing to live for it.
---
None will believe in what you do unless you do.

Be Your Self
Be it a brush stroke or a bird but most of all may I be myself in my moments of movement.

Boundaries
Expressing your boundaries and be boundless.

Bosses
Does your boss want you to be better, busy, or blinded?
---
Be at your best for the boss above who forever loves.

Blessed
The more you feel blessed, the less you will feel stressed.

Balance
Sleep. Eat. Exercise.
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Love. Work. Heal.

Burp
The beauty of a bird’s chirp makes all else sound like a burp. 

Beauty
Is beauty a blessing or just a dressing? That makes others deliver lines, justify crimes, and time after time, beauty disguises the health of one’s mind.
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Seeing beauty is the blessing of one’s vision; finding the truth is the challenge.
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How we embrace beauty is our duty.
From woman to man in all the land, we each can be God’s greatest fan.

Body
Our body is the shell of our spirit.
---
The boundlessness of our body shall never be a burden.

Blame
What you have is an easy target.
What you don’t won’t sit still.
---
Don’t blame yourself on your lover.

Being There
By touch, voice, or a timely resistance remain in reaching distance.

Business & Service
Good business is an accurate assessment as to what is needed.
Good service lies in one’s ability of fulfilling a need.

Best
Do your best with what you got, and in time, you will be given your shot.

C


Creativity
Conquer creative feats by concentrating on content before the “cover.”

Choices
I can live a simple life and help others along the way, or I can just help myself and make life complicated each day.
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Listen to your body.
Listen to your voice.
Feel it in your heart to make the right choice.
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Shall I make “sure money” to spend, or shall I make “sure” I have something to say?

Conformity
Attending the class of conformity can cause confusion. As  many cram for clarity they are often involved in internships with individual’s inability to integrate. 

Clarity
Clean up when you wake up, thus creating an uncontaminated confessional.
 ---
A clear mind leads to a clear motive and fuels a meaningful movement.

Comfort
Sole desire for comfort can lead to confusion, yet a united motive for happiness leads to clarity.

Civilized
Only the uncivilized possess the power to make the civilized as themselves.

Currency
Choice is the king of currency.
Change is the queen.

Change
How one handles the repetitiveness of events will expose one’s change.
How one handles the variety of events will expose one’s endurance.

Compassion
Cultivate compassion while killing confusion.

Confidence
If we force confidence, we can fear pain. If you ride humbly with confidence, you can honestly ride through pain.

Coach
We all need some one to walk into the locker room and tell us that we can win, yet no matter what the result, we believe them the next time.

Credit 
The less you have to prove, the more you can move.

Conditioning
Be cautious of conditioning that concentrates on creating credit.


Cell Phones
Are we any different than the birds that freely fly? Yet in recent hours, I see many on cell phone towers.  Often unaware of what radiates and rationalizing the words that resonate.

City Sensitivity
Searching for silence, hoping that vibrations don’t turn into violence.
Viewing the vast variety of separating souls, sensing sounds of sighs. 
Making it harder to say goodbye.
Afraid to die.
Because you keep sharing city lies.

Concrete Jungle
The cadence of the concrete jungle cannot cure the confused, although it can bring clarity to the calm yet complex cranium.

Class System
Often the “upper class” is too afraid to experience suffering.  Whether it be in themselves or witnessing it in others.    

Often the “upper/middle class” wonders whether it was worth doing whatever they did to get to be where they are.

Often the “middle class” is trying too hard to become upper and is full of fear to fall lower.

Often the “lower/middle class” struggles with balancing choices of helping those below. Or do they try to get higher?  

Often the “lower classes” time is too consumed with struggle, enabling them to educate themselves, to properly give, receive, and rest energy.

Capitalistic Transformation
Transform capitalistic motives into compassionate action. 
(Example: NYC parking meters)
Children
Children should not be put in positions to fill personal, parental voids.
---
May a mix of mom and dad deliver a dynamic, diverse destiny.

Common Man
I’m just a common man with common concerns in hopes to conceive cures.

Caregivers’ Recipe
Mix intellect and reason in a bowl of compassion.

Conversation
The comfort of conversation can cure the common catastrophe.

Communication
Even if it is a climb, let me communicate: Dreams, Feelings, and Ideas.

“C” People
I “C” People. Some create, others construct, and many complain rather than communicate.

Complaining
Every time I complain, I feel like I’m insulting God. But when my request for reasoning is answered and I acquire an achievement, I feel I’m complementing our creator.

Criticism
Criticism only torments the impatient mind.

Creativity and Business  
I’d rather have material with no deal,
then have no material with a deal,
yet having both would be ideal.

Celebration
There is a line to cross when one is to be proud or when one is worthy of celebration.

Controlling

The more time one tries to control nature, the less time one has to give to nature.

Cancer Questions 
Could this cure countless cancers?
Cleanse your closeness to chemical creations, along with cane of the refined kind, so you can soulfully strengthen circulation.
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Can a cancer cell live in an environment of oxygen?
Answer: It’s impossible for a cancer cell to live in an environment solely of oxygen. (After consulting with numerous oncology departments)
Conclusion: If we increase the flow of oxygen, we decrease the chances of cancer.

My notes: Environments that contain love manifest and move more oxygen. 

Can and Can’t
There is only one thing that “we can’t do.”
It is to listen to those who tell us that “we can’t do it.”

D


Dreams
My daughter woke up this morning and told me she had a dream where all people were puzzle pieces. I asked, “Did every one fit perfectly?” She responded, “Not really.”
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There are no words for the tangle dream.

Dream Killers
A dream killers desire is to destroy dynasty.

Desire
Love’s devil is disturbed desire, drinking false feelings of getting higher.
---
A mind dominated by desire will lack the goal of giving.
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Be above desire and extinguish the frustrating fire.

Days Off
When a rookie plays hooky, all may go astray. Yet a vet may take a day or two as wisdom adheres the crew.

Dating
Don’t be fooled by the free meal,
fancy wheels in efforts to conceal.
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Drugs
Drugs interrupt my conversations with God.

Down
Don’t let feeling “down” divert itself towards defeat.

Downfalls
Transform “downfalls” into “wake-up calls.”

Disease (Hereditary)
Fear and guilt is just as hereditary as any disease, yet if you heal the mind, you can change your bloodline.
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If you can find the emotional trend that depletes one sprit and threatens the flow of oxygen, odds are you can find the cause of the disease.

Death
Every life has its highs, lows, and its own flow to expose that one never knows when they shall go.
---
Be with death yet without discouragement.
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Death deems discovery.
---
How far off is our soul than that of a library book?
There will be times to renew yet eventually it must be returned.
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God, you can take me away.
I know I will be ok.
Even without all, I shall not fall.
Because I trust your call.

Decisions
My daughter asked me, “Do I do what I think feels good, or do I do what I feel is right, like when I have a mosquito bite?”