15 posts tagged “treasure”
'Not only are we traveling through the universe, but the universe is traveling through us. It needs to feel us, what we are feeling, our marvels and infatuations and heartaches;... to know what that stuff is, how it came to be and find its instrument, the source of its music; to experience itself in us or through us. But most of all, and forever, the mystery and the wonder.... To record and memorialize that, why we are here at all.
'Playing in the lot behind the house one day when he was still a little boy, Neruda discovered a hole in a fence board. "I looked through the hole and saw a landscape like that behind our house, uncared for, and wild. I moved back a few steps, because I sensed vaguely that something was about to happen. All of a sudden a hand appeared - a tiny hand of a boy about my own age. By the time I came close again, the hand was gone, and it its place there was a marvellous white toy sheep.
'The important thing about despair is never to give up, never wrap up and put away a sterile life, but somehow keep it open. Because you never can know what's coming; never. That's the great thing about life, the crucial thing to remember. You may beat your fists on a stone wall for years and years, and every consideration of common sense will say it's hopeless, forget it, spare yourself; and then one day your bleeding hand will go through as if the wall were theatrical gauze; you'll be in another realm where birds are singing and love is possible, and you'd have missed it if you'd given up, because it might be only that one day the wall was not stone.'
'So you tell yourself
'Each of us is the curator of his or her life. In our galleries of meaning, certain displays may be chaotic at times, but meaning emerges by the very act of trying to arrange our treasures, even by accepting what cannot be rearranged. More important than the final result is our willingness to work at our lives in the same way a curator might work on his or her collection, keeping the storage rooms in order, rehanging this gallery or that. As curators we are also artists. We can paint new canvases and restore old ones, as well as mounting and displaying them. Setting priorities and holding to them is more important even than the materiel given us to shape or the talent we are born with. There are limits to life itself, but no expiration date on making of finding meaning within it. For the things that matter most - the parent project, the child project, the partner, friend, and God projects - the only limit lies in our willingness to take such projects seriously. When instead we neglect them, reacting helter-skelter to every little demand life imposes, we squander the most important gift we are given both as artists and as curators of meaning, the gift of time.'
'What of those two famous antonyms, dream and reality? Can I really say that dreams are necessary to live a complete life? Can I say that dreams are real and that reality as we know it has its root in dreams?...
WHAT SHE WANTED
'From the time I was a little girl I loved every minute of the success. And it felt more wonderful than I could have ever imagined.'
'In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.' - Vincent van Gogh'Kiss them for me, I may find myself delayed.' - Siouxsie and the Banshees
It's not about the way I feel
When you open up a book
For the first time
It's not about the first line, is it?
It's not about the imagery in a poem
Not about the melody when there is none
It's not about means I can afford it with
It's not about me at all
Because its all about us
All about us
And that’s all
Me, too,
I wanna have a swimming pool
And a house in the country and one in the city
And one in brazil
It's not about the way that I can pay for it with
It's not about me or you
It's all about us
All about us
You me him you over there, them me all of us'
