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IMMORTALITY SOLVED

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Eve of Eden

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Painting:  “The Golden Serpent” (2000) Copyright © by Michael Parkes

AMAZING MOTHS!

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A MOTH is an insect related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Most of this order are moths; there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth (nearly ten times the number of species of butterfly), with thousands of species yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal. The variety, color, shapes and sizes of moths is truly incredible!

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TESTING ART

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Three artists whom I admire more than most are  Stanley Kubrick, Gustav Klimt and Michael Parkes.  Art, like every other opinion about Life, Universes and Other Stuff is a personal opinion.   Since I write a Blog, I express my personal opinions here.  You may not agree with me, but you may also have affection for the work of these artists.
“Wien”, (above) is  a Stone Lithograph by Michael Parkes (born in 1944)  is an American-born artist living in Spain who is best known for work in the areas of fantasy art and magic realism.  (Visit the website for Michael Parkes here:  http://www.theworldofmichaelparkes.co...

“( Gustav Klimt) most definitely he has, along with the entire Viennese Secessionist movement, influenced my work. If my spirit is based in the Renaissance, my heart is based in the designs of the Viennese at the turn of the 19th century”. — Michael Parkes, 2013.  Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) who was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer and cinematographer.

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YouTube – Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit

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American Idol…eat your heart out…..

YouTube – Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit.

MILAREPA

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Jetsun Milarepa  (c. 1052 – c. 1135 CE) is generally considered one of Tibet’s most famous yogis and poets.

Milarepa is famous for many of his songs and poems, in which he expresses the profundity of his realization of the dharma. Through the illustration of his own life, Milarepa set for all Buddhists an example of the perfect Bodhisattva, and a model of the incorruptible life of a genuine practitioner of Buddhist Tantrism. His life is an unmistakable testimony to the unity an interdependency of all Buddhist teachings – Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana – for Buddhahood is not attainable if any of the three is lacking. He made it clear to all that poverty is not a kind of deprivation, but rather is a necessary way of emancipating oneself from the tyranny of material possessions; that Tantric practice by no means implies indulgence and laxity, but hard labor, strict discipline, and steadfast perseverance; that without resolute renunciation and uncompromising discipline, as Gautama Buddha Himself stressed, all the sublime ideas and dazzling images depicted in Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism are no better that magnificent illusions.

TEARS OF JOY!

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10,000 VOICES and Orchestra performing “Ode To Joy” by Beethoven…..   Turn up the volume on your speakers to make the windows shatter!!!!   Tears of Joy!!!  Tears of Joy, My Beautiful Friends!!!!

The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (sometimes known simply as “the Choral”), is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best-known works of the repertoire of classical music. Among critics, it is almost universally considered to be among Beethoven’s greatest works, and is considered by some to be the greatest piece of music ever written.  The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony (thus making it achoral symphony). The words are sung during the final movement by four vocal soloists and a chorus. They were taken from the “Ode to Joy”, a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additions made by the composer.

30 LESSONS LEARNED BY GANDHI

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Mahatma Gandhi needs no introduction. In India, his name is pronounced with the same sincere respect as the names of the saints. The whole world knows the man who led his country to independence from Britain back in 1947.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.The future depends on what you do today.The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ’still small voice’ within me.The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.’Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.Find purpose, the means will follow.Live simply so that others may simply live.Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.An ounce of patience is worth more than a tonne of preaching.In a gentle way, you can shake the world.Nobody can hurt me without my permission.Where love is, there God is also.What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.A ’No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ’Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.’True beauty lies in purity of the heart.You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

LIMITLESS LOVE

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What pretensions of purpose or meaning are conjured to sustain the lives of human beings who exist within the unremitting brutality of microcosm and macrocosm: An Eternal Void of Insentient Energy?

Automatons unaware of the extent of their diminutive dimension within the
Cosmic All yet assuming they are the ultimate attainment of an Omniscient
– yet Unknowable – Creative Force?

Impotent Illusions contrived to assert that we may possess an Essence of Immortal Power and Volition attributed to the Divine Influences, or Limitless Love?

~ © Lawrence R. Spencer. 2016

IMAGINE THE DOMAIN

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