When you suddenly change the subject in your work, all you take with you are your brains and your confidence in your own ability to figure things out - Erez Lieberman

(Yes, I feel the same way too! When I entered the world of art and other fields I don't have any knowledge about all that I have is my gray cells and confidence to help me move forward!)

Limitations live only in our minds!

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it - Voltaire - French Philosopher

George Bernard Shaw :

"Life isn't about finding yourself, Life is about creating yourself."

Thank you for inviting my my dearest Master Artist, Have a lovely time.

be very happy please

"We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience"

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence - Robert Frost

Real education is the one that takes your heart and mind towards the right direction - Vivekananda

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army - Edward Everett

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination - Bertrand Russel

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is superstition - Jose Bergamin

The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell - Edvard Munch

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest - William Faulkner

In three words I can sum up everything I've learnt about life: it goes on.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car - Kenneth Tynan

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings - Henri Frederic Amiel

Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference - Charles Nalin

Never argue with a fool. He will not only drag you to his level but also beat you with his experience in foolishness!

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction - William Blake

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves - Bill Vaughn

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real - Lucian Freud

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door - Kyle Chandler

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better - Esther DysonThought of the Day

One need not be in a flock to fly by Thomas M Easley

Wisdom is the assimilated knowledge in us, gained from an intelligent estimation and close study of our own direct and indirect experience in the world by Swami Chinmayananda

Literature, music and the arts, all are necessary for the development  and flowering of a student to form an integrated total personality - Rabindranath Tagore

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change - Dr. Wayne Dyer
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools - Ernest Hemmingway
Love isn't finding someone you can live with, it's finding someone you can't live without - Anonymous
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence - Vince Lombardi
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism - Karl Marx

Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement - Fred Brooks

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come - Michael Jordan

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity - Ayn Rand

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted - David Bly

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire - William Butler Yeats

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it: or offer your own version - Salman Rushdie

Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve - Benjamin Franklin

Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it - Steven V. Thulon, US air force officer

I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free - Michelangelo

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation - John Ruskin

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do - Joel Osteen

Education is not preparation for life: education is life itself - John Dewey

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin - Denise Mc Cluggage

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one: Helen Keller is another - Erma Bombeck

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it- George Santayana

Success is the result of foresight and resolution; foresight depends upon deep thinking and planning  - Nahjul Balagha

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result - MK Gandhi

Education is the pssport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today - Malcolm X

A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman of the next generation - James Freeman Clarke

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom- Clifford Stoll (American Author)

There are those to whom talent seems to come effortlessly. But though the talent is real, the effortlessness is an illusion. Nothing just happens out of the blue. We have to work for it. And how can we work at something if we don’t believe it can happen in the first place? It all begins with a deceptively simple thing. A mindset.

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work ."........Thomas Edison

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not the truth, and truth is not the answer - Thomas M Easley

The art of the medicine : "We work in the dark - we do what we can -we give what we have .Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task .The rest is the madness of art ." Great Henry James!

Intellectualism : Belief that all knowledge is derived from reason.

Gnosticism : Belief that freedom derives solely from knowledge

Nirvana. The word is Sanskrit for "to extinguish." In this case, it means to extinguish ignorance, hatred and earthly suffering.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Enter love: Exit fear! Two can never dwell together - Dada J P Vaswani

To me the very essence of education is concentration of the mind, not the collecting of facts by Swami Vivekananda

True freedom means the power to be really you.

The main message of the Bhagwat Gita is "Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow and never stop questioning the existing system and the established order of the society."

"There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real" - Napoleon Hill.
Remember that people grow and mature differently as their life experiences mould them.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Give a kind word of encouragement to day. Someone needs to hear it!

Just as an inebriated person enjoys his deluded mind, the ignorant enjoy their pathetic condition.

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached - Swami Vivekananda

The bird of love flies on two wings – Faith and Dedicated service. The stronger the wings, the higher the bird soar by Dada J P Vaswani

Success depends on the amount of energy we bring to bear on what we do. Will power directs energy. The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection - Buddha

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it” 
—Albert Einstein

Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged.. It’s how I arrange my mind.

Wasting an opportunity is stupid; waiting for an opportunity is lazy; looking for an opportunity is smart; creating an opportunity is genius.

“Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way” - Dr. Viktor Frankl

A man who is sure he can protect himself is more relaxed - Thomas M Easley (like me! - Krishna)

What we fear to lose is already lost to fear - Thomas M Easley

Culturally advanced people may not necessarily be civilised if there is lack of rationality, reasoning and control. Similarly, a so-called culturally backward people may not necessarily be socially backward. From ancient times we have struggled against obstacles. Struggle is the essence of life. With intellectual development there is cultural progress, but restraint and rationality have to be exercised on cultural expressions. Hence the need for constructive ideology that engenders evolution of advanced civilisations.

Lord Byron once said:

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

Beveridge offers a solution:

The best way of meeting this dilemma is to read critically, striving to maintain independence of mind and avoid becoming conventionalized. Too much reading is a handicap mainly to people who have the wrong attitude of mind. Freshness of outlook and originality need not suffer greatly if reading is used as a stimulus to thinking and if the scientist is at the same time engaged in active research. In any case, most scientists consider that it is a more serious handicap to investigate a problem in ignorance of what is already known about it.

Francis Bacon, pioneer of the scientific method, phrased it in a better way:

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted … but to weigh and consider.

(Hey, I do it in exactly the same way!-Krishna)

" Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is -
but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration,
akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. "
- Edward Hoagland
" Silence is like a river of grace inviting us to leap
unafraid into its beckoning depths.
It is dark and mysterious in the waters of grace.
Yet in the silent darkness we are given new eyes.
In the heart of the divine we can see more clearly who we are.
We are renewed and cleansed in this river of silence.
There are those among you who fear the Great Silence.
It is a foreign land to you.
Sometimes it is good to leap into the unknown.
Practice leaping. "
- MACRINA WIEDERKEHR,
" Great hearts are free of either want or wish;
They may be proud and richly clothe themselves
In lofty, burdenless, mysterious Silence."
- CARMEN SYLVA, "Out of the Deep"
" When you become aware of silence,
immediately there is that state of inner still alertness.
You are present.
You have stepped out of thousands of years
of collective human conditioning. "
- ECKHART TOLLE,

life is not about merely surviving – life is about living!

The quality of your life depends on something that lies within you.

Life's message!

"Achievers are like freedom fighters! They don't compromise."

Death is not the greatest loss in life.The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live ” - Norma Cousins “

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman, American author, philosopher, theologian, and civil rights leader

How is it that common elements such as carbon, nitrogen and oxygen happened to have just the kind of atomic structure that they needed to combine to make the molecules upon which life depends? Has the universe been consciously designed? - Richard Morris

Buddha
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: 1.) not going all the way and 2.) not starting.

Buddha
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

Buddha
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true.

Buddha
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Dada J P Vaswani
The pathway of love is paved with flames. It is only the brave who move on it, step by step.

Swami Vivekananda
We see that the apparent contradictions and perplexities in every RELIGION mark but different stages of growth. The end of all religions is the realizing of God in the soul. That is the one universal religion.'

Dada J P Vaswani
Love is not intelligent: love can only imagine.

Swami Sivananda
Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

Thomas M Easley
We must admit at least the possibility that everything we believe to be true is not true

Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

This deep self-confidence, uncompromising quest for Truth is a lesson for all of us by Swami Tyagarupananda

An experience teaches ably the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way by Andre Gide

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyse you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are - Bernice J Reagon

The Secret to Peace of mind is to not identify with anything other than your True Self - Robert Adams

Confucius said... "In the world there are many different roads but the destination is the same. There are a hundred deliberations but the result is one." by I Ching

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking - John Maynard Keynes

If you run into a wall .... figure out how to climb it - Michael Jordan ( Basket ball player)

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India - Max Mueller

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind - Wayne Dyer

Ramana Maharishi says: “For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination”.

To experience life as it exists, to experience happiness and ecstasy, one has to go beyond all thoughts that anchor us to so-called reality. These thoughts are figments of imagination churned out by an overactive mind.

We tend to believe everything that our mind tells us via thoughts and we act and live our lives according to our belief in these thoughts, most of which are only random raves and rants of the mind. Byron Katie says: “I used to believe my thoughts and I suffered. The day I stopped believing my thoughts, my suffering ended.” Her entire teaching, called ‘the work’ is based on deeply questioning each and every thought, till the falsity of the thought is established, so that we can throw them away, leading ourselves to break free of imprisonment.

You have absolutely NOTHING to give up, nothing to surrender, nothing to let go of. You are already the totally free liberated Self - Robert Adams

“Creative people may see stressors more as challenges that they can work to overcome rather than as stressful obstacles they can't overcome” - Turiano

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at, change - Wayne Dyer

Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful by Rajuda

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living by Miriam Beard

When you are at peace with yourself and you love yourself, it’s virtually impossible for you to do things to yourself that are destructive by Wayne Dyer

Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you really are -Felix Baumgartner

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes possible in a very narrow field - Niels Bohr

In politics stupidity is not a handicap - Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to find your-self is to lose yourself in the service of others... All other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy by M K Gandhi

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy by Ralph W Emerson

What is true creativity and how is it different from that which is so considered in popular culture?

What is generally called creativity is manmade -- painting, music, literature, romantic and factual, all the architecture and the marvels of technology. And the painters, writers, poets, probably consider themselves creative. We all seem to agree with that popular idea of a creative person. Many manmade things are most beautiful, the great cathedrals, temples and mosques; some of them are extraordinarily beautiful and we know nothing of the people who built them.

However, now, with us, anonymity is almost gone. With anonymity there is a different kind of creativity, not based on success, money -- twenty-eight million books sold in ten years! Anonymity has great importance; in it there is a different quality; the personal motive, personal attitude and personal opinion do not exist; there is a feeling of freedom from which there is action.

Yet most manmade creativity, as we call it, takes place from the known. The great musicians, Beethoven, Bach and others, acted from the known. Writers and philosophers have read and accumulated; although they developed their own style they were always moving, acting or writing, from that which they had accumulated -- the known. And this we generally call creativity.

Is that really creative? Or is there a different kind of creativity which is born out of the freedom from the known? Because when we paint, write, or create a marvellous structure out of stone, it is based on the accumulated knowledge carried from the past to the present. Now, is there a creativity totally different from the activity that we generally call creativity?

Is there a living, is there a movement, which is not from the known? That is, is there a creation from a mind that is not burdened with all the turmoils of life, with all the social and economic pressures? Is there a creation out of a mind that has freed itself from the known?

Generally we start with the known and from that we create, but is there a creative impulse or movement taking place that can use the known, but not the other way round? In that state of mind, creation, as we know it, may not be necessary.

Is creativity something totally different, something which we can all have - not only the specialist, the professional, the talented and gifted? I think we can all have this extraordinary mind that is really free from burdens which man has imposed upon himself.

Out of that sane, rational, healthy mind, something totally different comes which may not necessarily be expressed as painting, literature or architecture. Why should it? If you go into this fairly deeply, you will find that there is a state of mind which actually has no experience whatsoever. Experience implies a mind that is still groping, asking, seeking and therefore struggling in darkness and wanting to go beyond itself.

There is a complete and total answer to the question if we apply our minds and our hearts to it; there is a creativity which is not manmade. If the mind is extraordinarily clear without a shadow of conflict, then it is really in a state of creation; it needs no expression, no fulfillment, no publicity and such nonsense. Courtesy: KFI

From:

What We Mean By Creativity

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Courage is grace under pressure - Ernest Hemingway

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak - Epictetus

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself by Gautama Buddha

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby - Langston Hughes

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety - Rene Daumal                                                                                                                         "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough" - "Mae West" 

 You are what you believe yourself to be - Paulo Coelho

Humans are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason - Ashley Montagu

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant - Henry David Thoreau

J.L.Liebman:
''Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.''

If a tree falls in the woods, and there's no one there to hear it, how will the environmentalists react ? - Anonymous

"Life gives you what you settle for."

There are times when you will only make the problem worse with your continued presence.

"Your thoughts are limited by your vocabulary."

'It is more honorable to catch and hold onto a Tiger's tail than a Fox's head.'

Do not be afraid to take advice from those that have tried something and failed. Do not take it from those who have never tried anything.

When you get married, you are marrying into the whole family.

"you will never regret a kindness" ( Somebody said this but i did regret my kindness once when the person I helped took me for granted thinking that was foolish and started to pestering me again and again for money!)

"You only really own what you can hold under your left arm at a dead run."

Don't take abuse at work.  And don't get so dependent on a job that you have to suffer abuse.  If you have a boss that screams yells and insults you, quit.  And always be able to be able to quit.

Don't wait for something to happen. Or suddenly you're 40 and nothing has happened.

"You're different. Stay different."

"Never ever keep your eye away from your goals. If you always keep getting distracted, imagine yourself winning the accolade which provided you the motivation to fight in the first place. Cover your surroundings with people who always bring you closer to your goals."

"Always act as if you own the place."

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India! - Max Mueller 

Ideas are not set in stone. When exposed to thoughtful people, they morph and adapt into their most potent form.

"Hands that help are holier than mouths to pray."

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

When you travel towards your objective, be sure to pay attention to the path. The path teaches us the best way to arrive and enriches us while we are traveling along it - Paulo Coelho

It's only when we silence the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can hear the whisper of truth that life reveals to us - K T Jong

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky - Rabindranath Tagore

What is the use of a house if you don't have a decent planet to put it on? - Henry D Thoreau

"What Comes Easy Won't Last Long, And What Lasts Long Won't Come Easy"

Design is intelligence made visible - Alina Wheeler

Tough times never last, tough people do.

Be grateful for whomever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond - Jalaluddin Rumi

If you want to think out of the box, you need to ask different questions.

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature"
Cicero
Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)

"Do or do not. There is no try."

"Don't try...DO!"

Rain showers my spirit and waters my soul - Terri Guillemets

Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either - Helen Keller

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time - Voltair

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you are always walking on tiptoe - Marion Blakey

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly - Francis Bacon

You will worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do - David Foster Wallace

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away - Phillip K. Dick

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect -Benjamin Franklin

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances --- Herodotus ( A pessimist)

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter". -- Benjamin Disraeli (An Optimist)

Abraham Lincoln phrased the secret of success as “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other”

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service by Henry Ford

George Bernard Shaw, "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities by Jean Houston

'Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present'
Jim Rohn

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does - Josh Billings

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking - John Maynard Keynes

Love is not gazing at each other but looking together in the same direction - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The price of anything is th amount of life you exchange for it - Henry David Thoreau

An optimist would say the glass is half full, while a pessimist would say it is half empty. I have a third point of view. For me the glass is always full - half with water and half with air - Narendra Modi

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein: it rejects it - Peter Medawar

The man whi insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides - Henri Frederic Amiel

People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have  - Anne Celestial

No one should ever love their idea so much that it becomes detached from reality.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct - Benjamin Disraeli

The best scientists themselves are usually artists -  Einstein                    A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others' Ayn Rand

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment by Buddha

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought by Peace Pilgrim

 'It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light'

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.
Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
“When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.”
“Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.”
“I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers.”
“I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.”
“I just love it when people say I can’t do it, there’s nothing that makes me feel better [than proving them wrong] because all my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.”
“When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead. I don’t want to live thinking about how I’ll be remembered.”
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