"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it."
-- Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
“The most exquisite paradox…. as soon as you give it all up you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”
— Ram Dass
"A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it.
Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself."
—Gary Zukav & Linda Francis (The Heart of the Soul)
Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself."
—Gary Zukav & Linda Francis (The Heart of the Soul)
Seems like I'm constantly in a cycle of strangling something I have delusions I can control to surrendering to once again discovering infinite power within myself. Your drawing looks like an eyeball to me. Is that intended?
ReplyDeleteNo, the drawing wasn't intended to be an eyeball but people often "see" lots of things in my drawings that I did not intentionally put there....which is one of the intersting things about this kind of drawing. An eye certainly fits with the theme of looking to the powwer within...
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