Square Root Love

“Don’t ask what the world needs. 

Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.

 from: http://www.lifelounge.com/gallery/view.aspx?id=9505

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

~ Howard Thurman

 catmaSutra cat art: Square Root Love

"Living well is an art that can be developed: 

a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings

and assurance that the world owes you nothing 

and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. "
~Maya Angelou

Ordinary Perfection

"For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music" Rain by Priscilla Ahn


I will seek elegance rather than luxury,
refinement rather than fashion.
I will seek to be worthy more than respectable,
wealthy and not rich.

 catmasutra cat art: afternoon cat


I will study hard, think quietly,
talk gently, and act frankly.

 catmasutra cat art: Come Fly Away With Me

I will listen to stars and birds, babes and sages,
with an open heart.
I will bear all things cheerfully, do all things bravely await
occasions and hurry never.

 catmaSutra cat art - Ordinary Perfection

In a word I will let the spiritual, unbidden and
unconscious grow up through the common.

~William Ellery Channing

Joy

"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."
~ Mark Twain

 

 

 

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

~ Rumi

 

 

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Serendipity

Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, 

an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, 

good silence and nothing too much.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Serendipity.

Look for something, find something else, 

and realize that what you've found is more suited 

to your needs than what you thought you were looking for. 

~Lawrence Block

catmaSutra cat art: serendipity

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Feel the rain...

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. 

 If you are attentive, you will see it

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

by James and Pink Gerbera / Helen 

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"Some people feel the rain.

Others just get wet."

~ Bob Marley  

"For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Life's bittersweet route

"Our individuality is all, all, that we have. 

There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for 

what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, 

but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star 

is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, 

in grace and love and wit, 

from peculiar station to peculiar station 

along life's bittersweet route."
~ Tom Robbins

Photo by Irene Suchocki

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; 

and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, 

which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only 

what lies in its own focus."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Footsteps in the snow

"Footsteps in the snow
suggest where you have been,
point to where you were going:
but when they suddenly vanish,
never dismiss the possibility
of flight..."
~ Diane Duane

 

Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk's flight
On the empty sky.

~The Creation of Éa"
~Ursula K. Le Guin

By mirjan.

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Zen Cat

catmaSutra - Zen art of cat living

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Dreamer

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. 

I hope someday you'll join us. 

 catmasutra cat art: Cloud 9

 And the world will live as one."

  catmasutra cat art: Colour My World

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, 

then there'd be peace."

~ John Lennon

Somewhere else...

catmaSutra cat art~ Top of the world looking

"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, 

and I intend to end up there."

~ Jeanette Winterson

catmaSutra cat art~ Changing the way time works

"It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. 

That the time is now and the place is here and that

there are no second chances at a single moment."

~ Jeanette Winterson

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Dance me to the end of love

 catmasutra cat art ~ Dance me to the end of love

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. 

People change so that you can learn to let go, 

things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,

and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
~ Marilyn Monroe

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Art of stretching...

 catmaSutra cat art: the Art of  Stretching

 

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?"
~ Rumi

 

 

 catmaSutra cat art: the Daredevil

 

 

Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind
when it only wants to see why.

~ Rumi

 

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Become nothing...

 catmaSutra cat art ~ Lotus Lullaby

Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you 

into everything.

~ Rumi

catmaSutra cat art~Square Root Love

 "Your task is not to seek for love, 

but merely to seek and find all the barriers 

within yourself that you have built against it."

catmaSutra cat art ~ Treehouse

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about."

~Verses by Rumi

Life is life, live it...

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it. 

Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it. 

Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
~ Mother Teresa

Art by Feric Feng

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Tao

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.

These three are your greatest treasures. 

 

catmaSutra cat art, Multipinkitties
 

Simple in actions and thoughts, 

you return to the source of being.

 

 catmaSutra cat art, Fire

 

 Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are. 

 

 catmaSutra cat art, Obedience School 101

Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
~ Laozi

 

catmaSutra cat art, Apple of my Eye

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Universe

A human being is a part of the whole 

called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. 

He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling 

as something separated from the rest, 

a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. 

 

This delusion is a kind of prison for us, 

restricting us to our personal desires 

and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. 

 

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison 

by widening our circle of compassion 

to embrace all living creatures and 

the whole of nature in its beauty."
~Albert Einstein

Timelines

There were timelines branching and branching, 

a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. 

Billions? Trillions? 

 catmasutra cat art: Incidents within the lines

The universe split every time someone made a decision. 

Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. 

Every choice made...was reversed in the universe next door."
~ Larry Niven

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Heart Space

Be like a cat,

concentrating on being asleep...

  catmaSutra cat art: Lotus Lullaby

what stays in your heart will stay; keep them,

and what vanishes will vanish."
~Haruki Murakami

catmaSutra cat art: In-between Love

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Imagine-nation

"Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, 

and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. 

So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, 

at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside."
~Haruki Murakami

catmasutra cat art: imagine-nation

"If you have to choose between something that has form 

and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. 

That's my rule. 

Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule,

and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time."
~Haruki Murakami

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Big Mind, small mind

The opposite of love is not hate, 

it's indifference. 

The opposite of art is not ugliness, 

it's indifference. 

The opposite of faith is not heresy, 

it's indifference. 

And the opposite of life is not death, 

it's indifference.

~ Elie Wiesel

catmaSutra cat art: Tree of Life

 "I've learned that people will forget what you said, 

people will forget what you did, 

but people will never forget how you made them feel."
~Maya Angelou

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catmasutra cat art: Big Mind, Small Mind

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The Magician

..And you know, this thought crossed my mind at the time: 

maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. 

Those kinds of coincidences are happening all around us, 

all the time, but most of them don't attract our attention 

and we just let them go by. 

It's like fireworks in the daytime. 

You might hear a faint sound, 

but even if you look up at the sky you can't see a thing. 

 catmaSutra cat art: The Magician

But if we're really hoping something may come true 

it may become visible, like a message rising to the surface. 

Then we're able to make it out clearly, decipher what it means. 

And seeing it before us we're surprised and 

wonder at how strange things like this can happen. 

Even though there's nothing strange about it. ..."

~Haruki Murakami

catmaSutra cat art: Wishing

In reality there are no separate events...

it's all connected to the source...

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Change

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself 

until you have mastered your breathing space. 

It is not possible to change anything until you 

understand the substance you wish to change."
~Jeanette Winterson

 catmaSutra cat art: heartbeats

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
~ Pablo Picasso

 

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Maybe Baby

Maybe, baby, the promised land was there and I missed it. 

Look at it glittering in the light. But the truth is I am inventing 

the maybe. 

I can only make the choices I make, 

so why torture myself with what I might have done, 

when all I can handle is what I have done.

The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life."
— Jeanette Winterson

 catmaSutra cat art: The Jester

I think we need more emotion, not less. 

But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. 

Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. 

We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, 

it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. 

We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems 

would be solved if only we had no emotions

to cloud our judgement."
— Jeanette Winterson

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The Invisibles

"...know the value of the world and not its economic potential. 

It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles 

never counted by the GDP and the census figures. 

It means knowing that life has an inside 

as well as an outside. 

And I think it means love."

~Jeanette Winterson

catmaSutra cat art: Apple on the Inside

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Letting go

People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, 

feeling that if things are going wrong, 

that means that they did something bad 

and they are being punished. 

That's not the idea at all. 

 

 catmaSutra cat art: Mirror, mirror on the wall

 

The idea of karma is that you continually get 

the teachings that you need to open your heart. 

To the degree that you didn't understand in the past 

 

 catmaSutra cat art: Fire

 

how to stop protecting your soft spot, 

how to stop armoring your heart, 

you're given this gift of teachings 

in the form of your life, 

to give you everything you need 

to open further."
~Pema Chödrön

 

 

catmaSutra cat art: The Pilgrimage

 

Intensity is the desire to receive. 

Open yourself to light and you will become light.

 ~jw

 

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