I got that photo from The Universe in Color, a magnificient collection of stunning photos by Robert Gendler. Go check it out!
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Integrity recognizes itself.–
The power of the inability to learn a lesson is the multiplier of the cost to fix it.–
The ego is a useful vehicle, if you get to know the driver.
Those are from Bradisms. Brad regularly expounds on various subjects ranging from politics to trust to caring to love, all with an inimitable style which can only be described as “pithy”, meaning tersely cogent. He also has a webpage featuring a collection of his best work, also worth visiting. Brad recently commented on my post Truth and Being, where I attempt to summarize large patterns in life, and which I almost deleted because of its intractable pithiness. But Brad seemed to understand my obscure logic. Then I found this post, “Life is…” on his website, and realized I think a lot like him. Yet he allows himself much more freedom in the realm of pithiness than I! Thanks Brad, for showing us how playfully rich truth can be.
(0)David Depape has a blog he cleverly calls “God is Love“. I’m sure he intends those words’ various echoes of meaning, from completely ironic to absolutely and literally true.
His voice is as subtle and complex as the title. He is neither religious nor atheist. The hypocrisies of organized religion get no mercy from him, but nor do rabid atheists. Somehow he finds inspiration in the ambiguous truth of neither/nor.
Take his post, The Religion of Science.
Religion is a form of stagnant science. Christianity is based on science. The priests were the scholars and scientists or their day. They observed the world and came up with a theory of existence based upon what they could observe. They didn’t know about atoms, cells and the quantum level. They came up with the best theory they could with what little they knew. Religion is science that got stuck on proving old theories. Now atheism is doing the same. Atheism is stuck on proving a point and it’s clinging to theories that are becoming antiquated in the face of new discoveries.
Instead of admitting what we know and admitting what we don’t know and moving forward from there.
I think you’ll find his views as refreshing as I did.
(5)I enjoy finding blogs (sort of) similar to mine. It’s taken me awhile to find my niche; a peculiar blend of personal experience, spiritual advice, philosophical explorations, poetry, gardening, food and general inspiration. Yesterday someone named Titus-Armand commented on my site, so I checked out his blog, Project Armannd. I was pleasantly surprised to fine a quality blog, one which isn’t prepackaged to a particular audience as so many are these days. He explores a variety of subjects toward living a better life; “about today’s society, issues of today’s world, tips on self-improvement, spiritual advices, inner peace, general psychology, happiness, and some other things…” The topics he chooses are intriguing and unique, like the psychological meaning of certain eye movements. But he doesn’t just report. He interprets. I like that. Welcome Titus-Armand (TA?). I like your style.
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The idea of emptiness is usually quite lonely and frightening but you have managed to make emptiness appealing…This concise piece is magnificent…Thanks for the link to the pictures as well;)
Oblivion is a place with no disturbance, no strife, no fear. As such, it is an appealing idea. But it is also a place of no joy, no love, no life. What price peace?
Tammi- Hello, thanks for stopping by. For some reason, I get solace from the emptiness of space. It doesn’t seem as empty as the occasional emptiness I feel in my soul.
Ned- Good point. Oblivion is neutral. As a meditation, it calms me. The I can see joy and fear as opposites, not exclusive of each other.
Thanks to all that exhaling, youu help us ‘inspire’ peace. A beautiful thought- so well communicated.
This is lovely Garnet…
Excellent find David. I love space photography but his images on earth are incredible. Thanks for sharing such a treasure.
What a mesemerizing display of beauty, in the picture and in your words. I have recently began chanting and this is a wonderful reminder that emptiness is positive.
–I’m almost 70% back to my old self, blogging and such. I’ll frequent more often!
Mmmm…
Hello Hungry- Glad you’re getting your old swagger back. I’m still very distant from blogging. But I’ve found a balance I can sustain.
MB- Mmmm Hmm!
Made me laugh!
Happy Valentine’s Day sweet Garnet!
Good luck! I hope you feel better!! : )
Oh my! What a picture! Amazing indeed. Yes emptiness is important. Not to feel attached to anything and also blissful. The dream of every human being, but that can be achieved nonetheless.
Keep up the good work!
Well, this photo certainly puts things in perspective, or should at least. A vast galaxy before our eyes, among innumerable vast galaxies, suspended in the vast universe.
yes, loneliness can be scary, intimidating but not if you change teh old paradigm of needing someone to define who you are.
we are so conditioned we never pause to think we came in alone through the canal of birth, stayed there alone, frightened(?) shivering, bobbing in a turbid unclear matrix, just waiting for something to happen, suspended in a vacant destiny, but we MADE it. so why the loneliness of physical space? we’ve been there before. came out calm, yet epectant and then get so tarnished by the applied layers of soceity, imagine atiger feeling lonely?
I fret, gluttonize,to fill up the empty space but maybe you are right, I’ve started enjoying my asceticism, it makes me feel strong, inviolable and yes. it’s given me a sense of humor, like a an eagele soaring , taking in the prespective. That’s what we lack sorely perspective. It’s a practice taht grows. it’s okay to have company but it’s equally ok not to.