I posted my Mantra!
Posted on Jan 3rd, 2006
by 
Heather
Heather
This is my personal daily mantra: one of my favorites!
"Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Formal art is essentially rational. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. These sentences comment on art, but are not art."
-Sol Lewitt 1969
(he wrote this, *there is alot more than this*... but this part he wrote the year and the month I was born...cool huh? Well I think it is, so there :)
www.badkittyartstudio.com
I just put this permant on my front page, because I have it everywhere I go...I have a copy of it in my wallet, one in the car...and a couple by Buddahs, and MLK...and Bruce Lee...man, it's really a fat little book...but this one...this one...has brought me down to the place I need...everytime I read it....there is magic there...in the line between...what is and what is yet to be.
What was I before these words pierced the darkness?
I was
waiting for
the light.
***
Now I see...everything and nothing.
The glory of not knowing what's next is fun now...
no more pain...here,
where it is and isn't all at them same time...
there is my nirvana...I just saw it run around the corner...I was peeking thru my fingers, while counting...the moments til I woke up....I woke up, one day....whole.
How did I get there? I really did wake up one day and arrived at my own platform...I found myself...that long, lost person...the one I was always trying to find, the one that sings, and dances, and creates, and heals and loves and hurts and just keeps rolling on.
***
One of the ways is thru this portal...ZaadZ....Brian's Newsletter...it was a small thing really, to sign up for it, because I was surfing the web and found it...
before it was ZaadZ...and the ablity to find words that made magic happen inside myself...the collection of quotes here...it's not just a "cool" thing...it changes you....keep reading them, just scroll around...check it out...and a few days later, sure enough a quote will come to your mind, in those moments when you are lost....in the maze...asleep and feeling your way along...stumble and they are they are...24/7...they never leave and forget to gve you a forwarding address...look it up. Magic is what you make it, it's right under your fingers....feel it?
***
Truth is Power...self control is nothing more than a new habbit...practice becoming more, use the tools at hand, and make it happen. This is a big part of the path I took, and it worked for me...maybe it'll help someone else out there to know...I FAIL...all the time...yet I still have a "can-do spirit"...why?...Once upon a time...in a dark bend in my road, I came across another way....it transformed my entire being to the cellular level...I am new...thru a simple little thing....moment to moment...I bloom, I understand...I want more...because of a seed that was planted once by a stanger...he didn't have to take the time...he didn't have to do anything at all...he was being the change he wanted to see in the world....like I said...it's a happily addictive way to live...I have an addiction now to power...of self. True white hot power. "Stand back...hot stuff coming thru!"
***
Just do it! Brian told me...the first time I wrote to thank him for creating the site in the first place...there is magic where you are...right now...BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED!
Love to all, The Ever Creative, can't make my freaking mind stop.....and I'm still gowing and grateful...Heather
"Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Formal art is essentially rational. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. These sentences comment on art, but are not art."
-Sol Lewitt 1969
(he wrote this, *there is alot more than this*... but this part he wrote the year and the month I was born...cool huh? Well I think it is, so there :)
www.badkittyartstudio.com
I just put this permant on my front page, because I have it everywhere I go...I have a copy of it in my wallet, one in the car...and a couple by Buddahs, and MLK...and Bruce Lee...man, it's really a fat little book...but this one...this one...has brought me down to the place I need...everytime I read it....there is magic there...in the line between...what is and what is yet to be.
What was I before these words pierced the darkness?
I was
waiting for
the light.
***
Now I see...everything and nothing.
The glory of not knowing what's next is fun now...
no more pain...here,
where it is and isn't all at them same time...
there is my nirvana...I just saw it run around the corner...I was peeking thru my fingers, while counting...the moments til I woke up....I woke up, one day....whole.
How did I get there? I really did wake up one day and arrived at my own platform...I found myself...that long, lost person...the one I was always trying to find, the one that sings, and dances, and creates, and heals and loves and hurts and just keeps rolling on.
***
One of the ways is thru this portal...ZaadZ....Brian's Newsletter...it was a small thing really, to sign up for it, because I was surfing the web and found it...
before it was ZaadZ...and the ablity to find words that made magic happen inside myself...the collection of quotes here...it's not just a "cool" thing...it changes you....keep reading them, just scroll around...check it out...and a few days later, sure enough a quote will come to your mind, in those moments when you are lost....in the maze...asleep and feeling your way along...stumble and they are they are...24/7...they never leave and forget to gve you a forwarding address...look it up. Magic is what you make it, it's right under your fingers....feel it?
***
Truth is Power...self control is nothing more than a new habbit...practice becoming more, use the tools at hand, and make it happen. This is a big part of the path I took, and it worked for me...maybe it'll help someone else out there to know...I FAIL...all the time...yet I still have a "can-do spirit"...why?...Once upon a time...in a dark bend in my road, I came across another way....it transformed my entire being to the cellular level...I am new...thru a simple little thing....moment to moment...I bloom, I understand...I want more...because of a seed that was planted once by a stanger...he didn't have to take the time...he didn't have to do anything at all...he was being the change he wanted to see in the world....like I said...it's a happily addictive way to live...I have an addiction now to power...of self. True white hot power. "Stand back...hot stuff coming thru!"
***
Just do it! Brian told me...the first time I wrote to thank him for creating the site in the first place...there is magic where you are...right now...BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED!
Love to all, The Ever Creative, can't make my freaking mind stop.....and I'm still gowing and grateful...Heather
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July 2008
Beautifully put Heather.
I love the way you write.
The quotes are so much more than words. Some can change the way I look at reality.
The way I think. Interact.
We all fail, and that, to me is part of success. How much truth is in failing? How does that humble us and show us patience? Everything that happens to me is just another curve in the road that brings me right where I need to be in every moment. “Good” or “Bad”.
It’s hard to “fail” when I look at failure in this way.
Thanks for getting me thinking.
You are the change!
Peace,
David
Thanks David! I’m just glad to know we connected…thats all the change is…new connections…growing in general is cool when the gray matter is engaged…thanks for reading David, keep having a soul FULL day,
Love, Heather
“there is my nirvana…I just saw it run around the corner…I was peeking thru my fingers, while counting…the moments til I woke up….I woke up, one day….whole.”
My gray matter is engaged. And Sense and Spirit and Self.
Very very grateful for your words tonight…
Whole Heart
Christiana
So glad we can connect thru the magic of wordsmithing my friend…hope you had a good Holiday, and I look forward to more great…gray matter engaing words…coming from you soon…reading your poetry makes me want to paint…and color Happily OUTSIDE the lines while doing it.
Christina…we are out of the box…no going back now, might as well dive in…and just keep swimming…upstream people…upstream.
Love,
Heather
Upstream, indeed!! :)
Just keep swimming! :)
Very uplifting, Heather. I don't know how I got here, but I'm glad I did.
A quote, by a fella named Krishnamurti, that is not quite a mantra for me: “It is no sign of good health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.”
The quote that I have on my bizness card: “It is harder to live by our beliefs than it is to die for them.” That one is mine. Love peace and hope to you, today and always, RicH