The eXchanger - The eXchangers' Thread - Quotes to Ponder

I did not sculpt the figures into the marble,

I released their form from the rock

sculptor (among many of his artistic talents)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)



unkown (a great art master ???)



It may refer to his carving of the “Bound Slave” and
the “Dying Slave.” Here is a paragraph quoted from
one of the many webpages on Michelangelo:

Two other superb statues, the Bound Slave and the
Dying Slave (both c. 1510-13), Louvre, Paris),
demonstrate Michelangelo's approach to carving. He
conceived of the figure as being imprisoned in the
block (Third Captive). By removing the excess stone,
the form was released. Here, as is frequently the case
with his sculpture, Michelangelo left the statues
unfinished (non-finito), either because he was
satisfied

with them as is, or because he no longer planned to
use them.

I love that quote.

Rick

**INSPIRATION**



The Dream You Are Living


The dream you are living is your creation. It is your
perception of reality that you can change at any time.
You have the power to create hell, and you have the
power to create heaven. Why not dream a different
dream? Why not use your mind, you imagination, and
your emotions to dream heaven?



Just use your imagination and a tremendous thing will
happen. Imagine that you have the ability to see the
world with different eyes, whenever you choose. Each
time you open your eyes, you see the world around you
in a different way.



What you will see is love coming out of the trees,
love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the
light. You will perceive love from everything around
you. This is the state of bliss. You perceive love
directly from everything, including yourself and other
humans. Even when humans are sad or angry, behind
those feelings you can see that they are also sending
love.



~~ don Miguel Ruiz ~~

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as
he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he
ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought
and could be.
~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything is laid out for you. Your path is straight
ahead of you. Sometimes it's invisible but it's there.
You may not know where it's going, but still you have
to follow that path. It's the path to the Creator.
That's the only path there is.

~~ Leon Shenandoah, Onondaga (Native American
tribe)

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite
capacity to NOT know what can't be done.

~~ Henry Ford

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

~~ George Eliot

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but
also dream, not only plan but also believe.

~~ Anatole France

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and
the delight in
the recognition."

-Alexander Smith

"Whatever your problem, define it clearly in writing
before attempting to solve it." -- Brian Tracy

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to
see happen." -- Frank Lloyd Wright

"When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up
every morning excited about life." -- Mark Victor
Hansen

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." -
John Lubbock

The late Arthur C. Clarke once said:
"Any sufficiently
advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

"If logic tells us that life is a meaningless
accident, don't give
up on life. Give up on logic." -Harold Kushner

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone
with
others. Unfold
your own myth." -Rumi

"Every object, every being,
is a jar full of delight.
Be a Connoisseur." -Rumi

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you help them become what they are capable of
being"
-Goethe

"You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and
build your wings on the way down."
- Ray Bradbury

Nothing real can be threatened,
nothing unreal exists
ACIM

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God,( the great spirt or great spirits) created me.
ACIM

When we lose the Knowledge
of the Light We Are...
we go insane

This is what is happening...
to the world around us

- Gerardus
www.soulwise.net

Confucius said wisdom was "when you know a thing, to
recognize that you know it, and when you do not know a
thing, to recognize that you do not know it."
1. what you want
2. what you feel
3. what you observe

"There is an Indian Belief that everyone is in a house
of four rooms:
A physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual.
Most of us tend to
live in one room most of the time, but unless we go
into every room
everyday, even if only to keep it aired, we are not
complete."

-- Rumer Godden

"I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world
discovered
that we were threatened by a greater power from outer
space from
another planet-- wouldn't we all of a sudden find that
we didn't
have any differences between us at all?" said Ronald
Reagon.

"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a
dancer's
body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the
imitated behavior
of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not
exotic
creatures from another planet, but something of a
miracle." by
Martha Graham.