Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. Sun Tzu

The position of the artist is humble.  The artist is essentially a channel. ~ Piet Mondrian

“I paint not by sight but by faith.  Faith gives you sight.” ~ Amos Ferguson

“The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate - it is life, intensified, brilliant life.”
~ Alain Arias-Misson

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” ~ Pablo Picasso

“Experience, even for a painter, is not exclusively visual.” ~ Walter Meigs

“Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
~ Pablo Picasso

“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” ~ Georgia O'Keefe

“Inside you there's an artist you don't know about…Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.” ~ Jalal Ud-Din Rumi

I found a Gaia Blog that I wanted to put here:  Centria gave a beautiful insight into flowing power to GAIA - Thanks for this.  I feel quotes come from the Gaia Community and should be read as well as the masters.

A Gaia Story

Posted on Apr 24th, 2008 by  Centria

What is Gaia?  Gaia is a fireball of consciousness, extending out in all directions beyond time, a pulsating beating awareness of what is.  Everything in the universe is Gaia.  We are.  It is.  The universe is.  Gaia is the breath of the Infinite.

 

What is Gaia?  Gaia is an on-line community where people gather to blog, share ideas, join and explore in pods, discuss books, form and communicate goals, post photos and meet friends.  

 

What is Gaia?  Gaia is the energetic network of stories and ideas pouring forth, a continual stream of energy.  It is the songs, the teachings, the criss-crossing of human stories inspiring and breaking into new paradigms.  Many thoughts birthing new thoughts.  Many feelings birthing new feelings.  Many actions blossoming into new actions.  Many awakenings every day…..

 

What is Gaia?  Gaia is the individual from many places around the world.  The small individual life, attempting to make a difference.  The vulnerabilities, the strengths, the challenges, the thoughts, the desires….the fragmented piece of the whole writing its little stories, sharing its little triumphs and pains, attempting to connect with something larger than itself.

 

What really is Gaia?  Is it smaller individual separate selves meeting themselves as something much larger?  Could all the fragments of people on this website simply be the expressed larger Being of which we are?  When we meet Jane, Anna, Rachel or Mark, Thomas, Jake…..are we simply meeting those parts of ourself that we don't yet know?  

 

When we meet and like someone, are we not meeting and liking that part of ourselves?  When we meet and are challenged, are we not being challenged by that inside of ourselves that has not yet been met with peace, equanimity and love?  Are we not all each other, unique and different and multi-faceted?  

 

What is Gaia?  Wikipedia says:  The Gaia hypothesis is an ecological hypothesis that proposes that living and nonliving parts of the earth are a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism.    

 

The single organism of our joined small selves, pulsating and pulsating into infinity.  A mirror of what is.   A person typing in front of a computer.  A single action that resonates outward into the universe.

 

For a cool visual on this, check out:  http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

This is a cool view which looks at the earth from 10 billion light years away, and then zeroes in slowly until you get to the level of quarks.

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Enlightened.thinker said

 

When we meet and like someone, are we not meeting and liking that part of ourselves?  When we meet and are challenged, are we not being challenged by that inside of ourselves that has not yet been met with peace, equanimity and love?  Are we not all each other, unique and different and multi-faceted?

Absolutely! This is wonderful dear one…thanks..i enjoyed the whole thing, but loved this paragraph the most!

love you and love me too…LOL
Aley

ThePixellator said

 

I second that comment! What a rough life lesson to learn, that if you really don't like someone, you've got some work to do on yourself! It helps us put away the blame game and face our own shadow.

MorningStar said

 

I love this what you've written here, especially:

What really is Gaia? Is it smaller individual separate selves meeting themselves as something much larger? Could all the fragments of people on this website simply be the expressed larger Being of which we are? When we meet Jane, Anna, Rachel or Mark, Thomas, Jake…..are we simply meeting those parts of ourself that we don't yet know?

I have experienced this on Gaia, this feeling of meeting those other parts of myself through my friends. It's very gestalt for me (in terms of wholeness, presence, etc.), and, definitely therapeutic.

I also love the video link. It blew my mind! I found the subatomic world truly fascinating.

This “story” you've written here is something truly wonderful; I think everyone on Gaia should check it out.   :)

Satya-Seer said

 

What a lovely portrait you have painted of US.  You have captured beautifully this living piece of art.

What really stood out for me was the very thing that Aley (enlightened.thinker) about quoted.

Wonderfully nice awareness Centria and nice awareness that you witnessed.

Centria said

 

thanks to Morning Star for linking this blog.  As I witnessed the words coming out and the fingers typing on the keyboard and reading it simultaneously I remember thinking, “Really?  Oh how interesting to view it from so many different levels.”   I liked the part that Aley and Satya and the Pixellator liked, too.  Now, to just remember it more and more….
Love you guys!  Centria