cute cat by catmasutra

Cute cat art - the cat sketch

2012-01-31T18:03:00.000-08:00

catmaSutra cat sketch
of the day

There is a presence in all of us,

and this presence is the engine

that filters and magnifies...

Have a beautiful vision,

walk softly, live gently...

2011-12-09T18:24:00.001-08:00

It's that time of the year when the cats of CatmaSutra come out to play!Bright, quirky, and capable of levitation, the seventh installation of catmaSuta cat art exhibition is once again back at Utterly Art. The seven year itch has only served to cook up more mischief as the catmaSutra cat takes you to that sweet spot of whimsical bliss and light-heartedness.

"If we stop and observe how life flows, we'll notice how the universe is made up of individual moments which when appreciated fully, gains a shape akin to a smile from the heart - a personal heaven." Paul's paintings take his audience through these moments using the cat as the perfect allegory to create a personal space that tugs at the heartstrings!

Come check out some of the available catmaSutra collectibles and smile-getters (2012 catmaSutra calendar cards, tile coasters and keepsake boxes), the purr-fect gifts this festive season.

catmaSutra 7 cat art exhibition

CATMASUTRA: 7TH HEAVEN

Opening Reception:
Wed 14th Dec 2011 from 7pm

Exhibition runs from
14 to 24 Dec 2011
@ Utterly Art
229A South Bridge Road
2nd Level

Opening hours:
12 noon to 8pm,
Mon to Sat.
12 noon to 5.30pm, Sun

Or contact Keng Hock
for appointments:
Tel: + 65 6226 2605
Cell: 94872006

utterlyart@pacific.net.sg

Rainy days with Totoro

2011-10-18T07:38:00.001-07:00

if you can see beauty even when it’s not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence… If you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments, you will never be alone…

What the World needs...

2011-10-03T08:59:00.000-07:00

Saw the city from above… lights flickering like stars. The lights are alive, indicative of lives in the city; at the same time, it’s like a tiny cell in the body, each sustaining itself unaware of the view from above. Millions of cells come together, and a radiant design unfolds into a rarefied constellation of stars. Yet, individually we do not know what to do with ourselves. The busyness of life wear us down into a tiny flicker of light consumed by consumption. The urban city has no regard for the rhythm of life; it is relentless in keeping us earth bound, our wings clipped, unable to fly or dream. If the light in my eyes fade, then my life would have been in vain.

“Don’t ask what the world needs.

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

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

~ Howard Thurman

Fairy Tales

2011-07-14T08:56:00.000-07:00

"Some day you will be old enough to start
reading fairy tales again."
~ C.S. Lewis

catmaSutra cat Art!

"At every moment of our lives,
we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss."
~Paulo Coelho

Jerry Cai

The Milk

2011-07-11T09:20:00.000-07:00

In gratitude, I present you this offering of cookies and milk.

If you want me to eat them for you, give me no sign.

Thy will be done." ~ Homer Simpson

Oh, there are so many lives... How we wish we could live them
concurrently instead of one by one by one.
We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them
together like a strand of pearls. But that's not
how it works. A human's life is
a beautiful mess."
~ Gabrielle Zevin

Thank goodness it's Friday!

2011-07-07T10:12:00.000-07:00

TGIF! Get the latest
'No EVIL'

catmaSutra cat art iPhone covers

"Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying." ~ Studs Terkel

Fridays are a different kind of animal...

warm, fuzzy, quirky, zen, & blissful....

Stay this way and enjoy...

;)

Cat Dreams

2011-07-06T09:13:00.000-07:00

João Lauro Fonte

A suitably catmasutra-approved cat art!

One liner to live by:
invest your waking life with dream-world quality,

that's when the magic starts...

catmaSutra cat art collectibles...
Zen Quirky Bliss!

Super Cute Cat Art iPhone 4 cover!

2011-07-04T08:03:00.000-07:00

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This is one of a set of catmaSutra paintings entitled "See-no-evil" or Morning Cat. As you would have guessed, part 2 and 3 (hear-no-evil {afternoon cat}, and "speak-no-evil"{evening cat}) will soon follow. The design is also available for iPhone 4, iPhone 3, iTouch 2, iTouch4. I'll probably add in the iPad versions as well so stay tuned!

Here's the natural inspiration of the above painting - Halo doing her "See-No-Evil" stance. I think we can learn a lot from a cat, the way it stretches, the way it seems to live its life. Maybe it's a way of slowing things down as per lifespan, they age much faster than we do; but everything is relative, if we don't take time out to enjoy stretching and doing nothing once in a while, we may indeed live to regret it!

Fantasy, the escape route...

2011-01-19T07:26:00.000-08:00

catmasutra cat art

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory.
If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy,
don't we consider it his duty to escape?
. . .
If we value the freedom of mind and soul,
if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape,
and to take as many people with us as we can!
~ J.R.R. Tolkien

catmasutra cat art: Square root love

If you really wanna learn something,

you have to do so by feeling.

That's the fuel of life.

;)

Square Root Love

2010-12-28T07:34:00.000-08:00

“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

2010-12-02T08:34:00.000-08:00

"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

2010-11-28T08:04:00.000-08:00

"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

;)

Serendipity

2010-11-24T08:30:00.000-08:00

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

;)

Feel the rain...

2010-11-06T09:53:00.000-07:00

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

;)

"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

;)

Life's bittersweet route

2010-11-02T09:34:00.000-07:00

"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

;)

Footsteps in the snow

2010-10-31T03:35:00.000-07:00

"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.

;)

Zen Cat

2010-10-26T09:01:00.000-07:00

catmaSutra - Zen art of cat living

;)

Dreamer

2010-10-12T10:05:00.000-07:00

"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...

2010-10-10T09:42:00.000-07:00

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

;)

Dance me to the end of love

2010-10-07T09:03:00.000-07:00

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

;)

Art of stretching...

2010-10-05T21:37:00.000-07:00

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

;)

Become nothing...

2010-10-03T09:16:00.000-07:00

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...

2010-09-25T00:23:00.000-07:00

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

;)

Tao

2010-09-13T10:08:00.000-07:00

"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

;)

Universe

2010-09-06T10:03:00.000-07:00

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

2010-08-31T10:03:00.000-07:00

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

;)

Heart Space

2010-08-30T09:13:00.000-07:00

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

;)

Imagine-nation

2010-08-26T08:38:00.000-07:00

"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

;)

Big Mind, small mind

2010-08-25T07:24:00.000-07:00

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

;)

catmasutra cat art: Big Mind, Small Mind

;)

The Magician

2010-08-24T09:55:00.000-07:00

..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...

;)

Change

2010-08-19T09:18:00.000-07:00

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

;)

Maybe Baby

2010-08-17T09:20:00.000-07:00

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

;)

The Invisibles

2010-08-16T09:00:00.000-07:00

"...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

;)

Letting go

2010-08-04T08:30:00.000-07:00

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

;)

Universe

2010-08-03T08:17:00.000-07:00

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border,

allowing a crossing, a further frontier.

from: http://www.oyonale.com/image.php?code=319

The final frontier is just science fiction -

don't believe it.

Like the universe, there is no end.

~Jeanette Winterson

No One is listening

2010-07-29T08:39:00.000-07:00

If you listen and pay close attention to what is,

you will discover that there is no past, no future,

and no one listening.

catmaSutra cat art: Hear No Evil

You cannot hear yourself listening.

You live in the eternal now and you are that.

It is really extremely simple, and that is the way it is."
— Alan Wilson Watts

;)

Breathe

2010-07-27T09:08:00.000-07:00

"Breathe in, breath out.

Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span.

It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all.

from: http://www.ivoteforart.com/browse/artwork/abril/

Which of us doesn't do it?

Either we loll in anaerobic stupor,

too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty,

By Audrey Kawasaki

or we roll out fire like dragons,

destroying the world we love..."

— Jeanette Winterson

catmaSutra cat art: Come Fly Away with Me

Walk softly, live gently...
Breathe

;)

Karma Repair Kit

2010-07-26T08:23:00.000-07:00

Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.

catmaSutra cat art: Soup Inspector

1.Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.

catmaSutra cat art: Lotus Lullaby

2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.

catmaSutra cat art: Five Elements: Fire

3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.

catmaSutra cat art:Ordinary Perfection

4." "

— Richard Brautigan

Karma

2010-07-20T09:28:00.000-07:00

What can i tell you about the choices we make?

Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision,

and so much of life reads like fate.

Descendants from Goro Fujita on Vimeo.

The pull of past and future is so strong

that the present is crushed by it.

We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited

and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior.

~Jeanette Winterson

catmaSutra cat art - Blue Blue Sky

How people treat you is their karma;
how you react is yours. "
— Wayne W. Dyer

;)

A second of wakefulness

2010-07-17T09:48:00.000-07:00

"Do you wake up as I do,

having forgotten what it is that hurts or where,

until you move?

There is a second of consciousness that is clean again.

A second that is you, without memory or experience,

the animal warm and waking into a brand new world.

There is the sun dissolving the dark,

and light as clear as music,

filling the room where you sleep

and the other rooms

behind your eyes."

Quotes- Jeanette Winterson

Dream well tonight...

Don't Resist the Flow

2010-07-14T08:44:00.000-07:00

from: http://creill.com/tom-bagshaw.html

"...The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom.

From: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Yokai-Dreams-Show/504269

When there is no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness. 'I am he and/ He is me:/ Spring nightfall.' Abandon the self, and there you are."
— Haruki Murakami

catmaSutra cat art, Far East Rhapsody

"Precipitate as weather,

she appeared from somewhere,

then evaporated, leaving only memory."

;)

There is this other place...

2010-07-09T09:44:00.000-07:00

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice,
the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

*quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Time that withers you will wither me.

We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together.

Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds

until the earth covers us and we are gone.

;)

That Secret Nothing...

2010-07-08T08:39:00.000-07:00

from: http://suzywire.tumblr.com/page/3

"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

catmaSutra cat art - Imagination

I tell everything, but I do not say it,

because my friend, it is better

your secret be spoken by you.

~Rumi

The Reset Button

2010-07-04T09:56:00.000-07:00

Quoted from: http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?cat=8

"...I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore.

It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep,

and someone came, disassembled me,

and hurriedly put me back together again.

That sort of feeling." ~Murakami

It's time to press

the re-set button.

From: http://ffffound.com/image/3c735e50026e3ae3ba5668ed1466f....c14918

Let's fly...

There's a system here somewhere

;)

We'll fly tomorrow

2010-07-02T09:59:00.000-07:00

Quoted from: http://www.fu-photo.ch/index.php?id=14#c32

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream.

You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it.

But even if you go to the ends of the earth,

you won't be able to escape it.

Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world.

There's something you can't do unless you get there...

Murakami

Will it make a difference anywhere else

when you know you are the place you need to visit?

Quoted from: http://galadarling.com/

Sleep now...

We'll fly tomorrow...

;)

The Mad Jester

2010-06-30T08:44:00.000-07:00

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn.

Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

An you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."

Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

;)

Constellation

2010-06-19T09:56:00.000-07:00

Quoted from: http://maddyblu.stumbleupon.com/

With constellations in the night sky, some look up

and point. Others can be guided by the arrangements

the Sagittarian bow piercing enemies, the Water Jar

soaking fruit trees, the Bull plowing its truth,

the Lion tearing darkness open to red satin. Use

these words to change. Be kind and honest,

and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.

~Rumi

© All Rights Reserved by Flickr member Victor Oliveira

catmaSutra cat art:
My Sweetest Constellation

Speak the greatest truth you know
and let the uneasiness heal...

;)

Unexpected Illusions

2010-06-17T09:38:00.000-07:00

the world is never a mechanical thing,

set in its course and monotonous,

but rather, it's always expanding

and pregnant with possibility...

Don't part with your illusions.

When they are gone, you may still exist,

but you have ceased to live.

;)

Cat Tales

2010-06-14T08:00:00.000-07:00

"People are looking for their tales inside themselves.

Without tales people can’t live their lives.”

“That’s the beginning of the story.
We have rooms in ourselves.
Most of them we have not visited yet....
From time to time we can find the passage.
We find strange things...old phonographs, pictures, books...
they belong to us, but it is the first time we have found them.”

~Haruki Murakami

;)

Imperfect World

2010-06-13T09:21:00.000-07:00

"All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. We don't live with the mechanical precision of a bank account or by measuring all our lines and angles with rulers and protractors."

"Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course."

Bearable Lightness of Being

2010-05-31T04:36:00.000-07:00

Enjoy now fully

from: http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http://sperli....._9.jpg

No matter how much time you have in an experience or with someone you love, it will never feel like enough. So don’t think about it in terms of quantity—aim for quality, instead. Attach to the idea of living well moment-to-moment. That’s an attachment that can do you no harm. ~Lori Deschene

;)

Truth of Being

2010-05-29T04:31:00.000-07:00

Define yourself in fluid terms

We are all constantly evolving and growing. Define yourself in terms that can withstand change. Defining yourself by possessions, roles, and relationships breeds attachment because loss entails losing not just what you have, but also who you are. ~Lori Deschene

;)

Catch yourself before something else catches you...

2010-05-27T04:17:00.000-07:00

Call yourself out.

from: http://tebe-interesno.livejournal.com/88993.html

Learn what it looks like to grasp at people, things, or circumstances so you can redirect your thoughts when they veer toward attachment. When you dwell on keeping, controlling, manipulating, or losing something instead of simply experiencing it.. ~Lori Deschene

;)

This is NOW...

2010-05-25T04:16:00.000-07:00

Believe Now is Enough

It’s true—tomorrow may not look the same as today, no matter how much you try to control it. A relationship might end. You might have to move. You’ll deal with those moments when they come. All you need right now is to appreciate and enjoy what you have. It’s enough.. ~Lori Deschene

;)

Momentary Lapse of Reason

2010-05-23T04:11:00.000-07:00

Accept the moment for what it is.

Don’t try to turn it into yesterday; that moment’s gone. Don’t plot about how you can make the moment last forever. Just seep into the moment and enjoy it because it will eventually pass. Nothing is permanent. Fighting that reality will only cause you pain. ~Lori Deschene

;)

Dizzy

2010-05-17T09:17:00.000-07:00

Pic of the Day

Zen Phrase of the Day

Hundreds of thousands of impressions

from the invisible are wanting to come through...

I get dizzy with the abundance. When life

is this dear, it means the source is pulling us.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,
but what we are unable to say.
~Anaïs Nin

Open the Window

2010-05-14T10:22:00.000-07:00

Pic of the Day

Zen Phrase of the Day

Keep knocking, and the joy inside

will eventually open a window

and look out to see who's there...

;)

Star-crossed and from the beginning once more...

2010-05-14T09:18:00.000-07:00

Pic of the day

From: http://haze.tumblr.com/page/15

There is a world, forming out of Nothing,

and out of Nothing will come a tree,

and the tree will sit a bird,

and under the tree there walks a man,

and that man will learn the language of birds,

and find that the buried treasure is really there.

And when he has dug it up, he will spend

the jewels and the gold, and last of all

he will find a bag of seeds and

when he plants them they will

grow into a forest whose leaves

are a canopy of stars.

And one day

he will climb the tree,

and put his hand out to a star,

and the star will be his home.

;)

Look at me...

2010-05-13T09:07:00.000-07:00

Pic of the Day

Don't turn your head. Keep looking

at the bandaged place. That's where

the light enters you.

And don't believe for a moment

that you're healing yourself...

;)

KARMA

2010-05-09T07:25:00.000-07:00

Pic of the Day

By Ahimsa

Karma is the law of cause and effect which governs all phenomena.
We are all where we find ourselves because of karma -
because of actions we have performed in the past.
The universe is such a balanced instrument that any act
immediately sets corrective forces into action.

;)

Reality vs Illusion

2010-04-19T09:19:00.000-07:00

Pic of the Day

Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.
~Albert Einstein

Zen Quote of the Day

Each moment is only a play of patterns.

;)

Checkmate

2010-04-10T01:28:00.000-07:00

I TRUST YOU

The soul is a newly skinned hide, bloody

and gross. Work on it with manual discipline,

and the bitter tanning acid of grief.

You'll become lovely and strong.

If you can't do this work yourself, don't worry.

You don't have to make a decision, one way or another.

The Friend, who knows a lot more than you do,

will bring difficulties and grief and sickness,

as medicine, as happiness, as the moment

when you're beaten, when you hear Checkmate,

and can finally say with Hallaj's voice,
I trust you to kill me.

~Rumi

A silver of mirror shines out

from under a felt covering. Think how

it will be when the whole thing is open

to the air and sunlight! There are

mysteries I'm not telling you.

;)

Freedom of Madness

2010-04-02T09:28:00.000-07:00

Pic of the Day

Verse of the Day

Look for someone else to tend the shop.

I'm out f the image-making business.

Finally I know the freedom

of madness.

~Rumi

The Cat Files

2010-03-28T04:42:00.000-07:00

Curious Curatorship of the catmaSutra Cat!

catmaSutra likes this!

Adapted from Andrea Galvani's work

Zen quote of the Day

Alas! the world is full of enormous lights and mysteries,
and man shuts them from himself with one small hand!....

~Baal Shem Tov.

Andrea Galvani'

It's the facts that lie,

never the stories...

...they become true when

we're interested in the pursuit of truth

;)

2010-03-25T21:01:00.000-07:00

Pic of the Day

from the photo collection of SlyviaLadycat @facebook

Zen Quote of the day

Sense the surrounding space that connects you to everything.

Verse of the Day
You could be moving in a circuit without wing,

nourished without eating, sovereign without a throne.
No longer subject to fortune, you could be luck itself,

if you would rise from sleep, leave
the market arguing, and learn that
your own essence is your wealth.

~rumi

;)

No better love

2010-03-22T01:36:00.000-07:00

Pic of the Day

from the photo collection of SlyviaLadycat @facebook

Verse of the Day

No better love than love with no object,

no more satisfying work than work with no purpose,

If you could give up tricks and cleverness,

that would be the cleverest trick!

~adapted from Rumi

"The Explorer"
New catmaSutra Tile Coaster!

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in

are different from the things we do.
~ Freya Stark quotes (French adventurer and explorer 1893-1993)

;)

Remote Control

2010-03-20T01:35:00.000-07:00

Pic of the Day

from the photo collection of SlyviaLadycat @facebook

Zen for the day

Recognize your inclinations,

but resist the pull to be controlled by them.

"This is not a Pipe"

catmaSutra painting of the day

Verse of the day

Walk to the well.

Turn as the earth and the moon turn,

circling what they love.

Whatever circles comes from the center.

;)

love-wings

2010-03-07T06:01:00.000-08:00

Pic of the Day

from the photo collection of SlyviaLadycat @facebook

Verse of the day

Test your love-wings and make them strong

Forget the idea of religious or physical ladders

Love is the roof, the vital core of the soul,

And of all you see, only love is infinite

~adapted from Rumi

"Serendipity"

New catmaSutra Tile Coaster!

Dance, when you're broken open.

Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.

dance in the middle of the fighting.

Dance in your blood.

Dance when you're perfectly free.

;)

Truth of being

2010-02-26T12:30:00.000-08:00

Pic of the Day

Verse of the Day

...

Not until faithfulness

turns to betrayal and betrayal into trust

can any human being become

part of the truth.

...

Yesterday the beauty of early dawn

came over me, and I wondered who

my heart would reach toward.

Then this morning again and you.

Who am I?

;)

...

Train of thought

2010-02-25T07:36:00.000-08:00

Pic of the day

from the photo collection of SlyviaLadycat @facebook

Zen Quote of the Day

Watch your mind

- Positive or Negative -

Pause. Be quiet.

See if it's going in

the right direction.

Verse of the Day

Reason has no way to say

its love. Only love opens

that secret.

If you want

to be more alive, love

is the truest health

~Rumi

catmaSutra collectibles ~ Garden of Eden

;)

Come fly away with me...

2010-01-28T19:48:00.000-08:00

Kitty Photo of the Day

Love Cats by AnaCB

Verse of the Day
You dance inside my chest

where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do,

and that sight becomes this art.

Drumsound rises on the air,

its throb, my heart.

A voice inside the beat says,

"I know you're tired,

but come, this is the way."

~ Rumi

CatmaSutra painting of the Day

Come fly away with me, 24 x 30", 2010

Birdsong, wind,

the water's face.

Each Flower, remembering the smell:

I know you're close by.

~Rumi

Come fly away with me...

;)

My Quirky Valentine

2010-01-27T06:57:00.000-08:00

Kitty Photo of the Day

from http://www.catspictures.net/

...

Verse of the Day

Copper doesn't know it's copper,

until it's changing to gold.

Your loving doesn't know majesty,

until it knows its helplessness.

~Rumi

...

CatmaSutra painting of the Day

Charlie's Cat 330 x 30:, 2010

God only knows, I don't

what keeps me laughing.

The stem of a flower

moves when the air moves.

~Rumi

...

catmaSutra cat art exhibition

My Quirky Valentine:

A Date with the Cat

find out more

www.catmasutra.com

;)

Merry Meowy Christmas!

2009-12-27T00:08:00.000-08:00

Kitty Photo of The Day

By Matthias Zirngibl

...

Verse of the Day

May you have warmth in your igloo,
oil in your lamp,
and peace in your heart.

~Eskimo proverb

Blessed is the season which
engages the whole world
in a conspiracy of love!
~Hamilton Wright Mabie

Merry Meowy Christmas!

When we are present in each moment,
the past gently rolls up behind us and
the future slowly unravels before us.
~ Richard Levy

...

Blue Blue Sky

2009-12-11T23:07:00.000-08:00

Kitty Photo of the Day

Zen Verse of the Day
Eat and drink the soul substance,

as a wick does with the oil it soaks
in. Give light to the company.
~Rumi

...

catmaSutra painting of the Day

blue blue sky 30 x 30" 2009
from the catmasutra Six Appeal Exhibition

Make peace with the universe.
Take joy in it. It will turn to gold.

Resurrection will be now. Every moment

a new beauty, and never any boredom.

~Rumi

...

Hear Me Roar

2009-12-04T00:07:00.000-08:00

Kitty Photo of The day

from Boered's photostream

Zen Quote of the Day

What good does it do to
brood on the past
or to anticipate the future...?

Real-life inspiration for "hear-me-roar"

Take a moment to settle yourself

before the rush of the day begins.

Feel the calm and use it as an anchor,

a reminder there is silence under the chaos

catmaSutra painting of The Day

Hear Me Roar (18 x 36") from the upcoming
catmaSutra Six Appeal cat art exhibition

;)

Dance, Dance, Dance

2009-12-01T23:21:00.000-08:00

Kitty Photo of the Day

Zen Quote of the Day
Dance, when you're broken open.

Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.

\Dance in the middle of the fighting.

Dance in your blood.

Dance, when you're perfectly free.

~Rumi

catmaSutra painting of the Day

DJ Scratch (24 x 30") from the upcoming
catmaSutra Six Appeal cat art exhibition

;)

Middle Ground

2009-11-26T03:01:00.000-08:00

Kitty Pic of the Day

Zen Quote of The Day

When you can't stop thinking about something,

just think about the best-case scenario.

Then think about he worst-case scenario.

Find peace in the middle ground.

catmaSutra cat art of the Day

Incidents within the Lines...

Look out for it at catmaSutra Six Appeal!
;)

Little Things

2009-11-23T21:17:00.000-08:00

Kitty Pic of the Day

...

Zen Quote of the Day

Everything you do,

no matter how small,

attaches itself to larger whole...

Slow things down,

focus on the little things

and live well...

Send a karmic catmaSutra eCard

...

Painting in Progress

painting in progress for the up and coming
catmaSutra Six Appeal Exhibition...
December 17 2009

Best season of your life

2009-11-18T09:26:00.000-08:00

Kitty Photo of The Day

Just sit -

not trying to accomplish anything,

not trying to change anything...

catmaSutra art of the day

Zen Quote of The Day

Flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
This is the best season of your life.
~ Wumen

;)

Another great & beautiful day

2009-11-13T22:20:00.000-08:00

Kitty Photo of the Day

Zen Note of the Day

Use gentleness and humor

to stay in the present moment

A limited collection of selected catmaSutra cat art collectibles are now available locally in Singapore. These cheeky catmaSutra cats are 100% charming and happy and they make purrfect gifts! Go take a peek and browse through the different designs for tote bags, keepsake boxes, and tile coasters...

Listen to the hum of your heart...

;)

Rainy Day

2009-11-06T10:35:00.000-08:00

Kitty Photo of the Day

Zen Verse

Pay attention to the aroma,

colour and texture of

a rainy day.

Rainy Photo Of The Day

Verse of the Day

I feel like the ground, astonished

at what the atmosphere has brought to it. What I know

is growing inside me. Rain makes

every molecule pregnant with a mystery...

~Rumi

From Ludo73's

Rain

2009-11-04T22:55:00.000-08:00

Kitty Photo of the Day

by ALTZERO

...

Verse of the Day

How I love the rain

Used to be

because it feels like

redemption

for things we did

and didn't do.

catmaSutra cat art : When Seasons Change

The comfort of rain

because it's cold outside

but warm within.

It's bitter-sweet,

a secret tear

and a hidden smile

catmaSutra cat art : The Pilgrimage

I still love the rain

but only as change

from a sunny day...

;)

Great Things

2009-11-03T11:46:00.000-08:00

Kitty Photo Of The Day

...

Quote of the Day

In this life we cannot do great things.

We can only do small things with great love.,

~Mother Teresa

...

catmaSutra cat Art of the Day

catmaSutra cat art : Apple of my Eye

Verse of the Day

The rain has stopped,

the clouds have drifted away,

and the weather is clear again.

If your heart is pure,

then all things in your world are

pure...

Then the moon and flowers

will guide you along the

Way.

~Ryokan

The human-divine combination

2009-11-01T10:26:00.000-08:00

Kitty Photo of the Day

Halo doing a MJ tribute

Verse of the Day
The disc of the sun does exist, but if you see

only the ray-bodies, you may have doubts.

The human-divine combination are a oneness.

Plurality, the apparent separation into rays...

catmaSutra painting of the Day

An original catmaSutra cat art commissioned painting,
Peace & Happiness

Friend, we're traveling together. Throw off
your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot

of the beauty that can't be spoken. I'm like

an ant that's gotten into the granary,

ludicrously happy,and trying to lug out

a grain that's way too big.

~ Rumi

Forget Yourself

2009-10-29T03:02:00.000-07:00

Kitty Photo of the Day

From FroPolvereDiFata ♥'s photostream

Zen Quote of The Day

Study yourself.
Paradoxically, the more you do so,
the more you will forget yourself.

....

Art of Positioning

Harmonize your thoughts,
intentions and speech.

Do weights,
practice Martial Arts,
sleep...

catmaSutra cat art of the day: Summer of Desire

Maybe just
sleep...

;)

....

Destiny

2009-10-27T21:11:00.000-07:00

Kitty Pic of the Day

catmaSutra portrait

Kōan of The Day

What is destiny?

Is it the choices you make?

...

Kitty Photo of the Day

From For the cat lover

Zen Quote of the Day

Start your lives over.

Everyone is totally forgiven,

no matter what.

...

;)

Give light

2009-10-17T03:48:00.000-07:00

Kitty Photo of the Day

Zen Quote of the Day

Look for the small things;

You will see more of the details of life

...

catmasSutra cat art: Red Red Wine

Eat and drink the soul substance,

as a wick does with the oil it soaks

in. Give light to the company.

~Rumi

;)

...

Truth & Healing

2009-10-16T00:14:00.000-07:00

Kitty photo of the day

Angel, cat behind catmaSutra cat Art

Angel, the champion of the catmaSutra
"devil-may-care" bravado attitude

Zen Quote of the Day

Speak the clearest truth you know,

and let the uneasiness heal.

;)

Wash your mind

2009-10-09T11:44:00.000-07:00

Kitty photo of the day

from babykailan's photostream

Zen Quote of the Day

Throw yourself into life

Wash your mind

open your eyes ;)

catmaSutra Artees
10% goes to Cat Welfare Society

Stop and look deeply
Then keep smiling...

;)

Beautiful vision.

2009-10-05T07:41:00.000-07:00

Kitty photo of the day

from ScROs' photostream

Zen Quote of the Day

Have a beautiful vision.

Look at something in a beautiful way.

from *Cinnamon's photostream

What you do for yourself,

you are doing for others,

and what you are doing for others,

you are doing for yourself.

catmaSutra artees 10% goes to Cat Welfare Society

With animals,
we have the freedom to choose -

;)

catmaSutra cat parade for World Animal Day

2009-10-03T12:18:00.000-07:00

Kitty Pic of the Day

WORLD ANIMAL DAY

catmaSutra cats mob dance parade

commemorating World Animal Day

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog
and cat are not the better for it. ~Abraham Lincoln

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.... It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. ~Albert Schweitzer, Novel Peace Prize address, "The Problem of Peace in the World Today"

Perfect Existence

2009-09-26T12:57:00.000-07:00

Kitty Photo of the Day

From tanakawho's photostream

...

Zen Quote of The Day

Find perfect existence through imperfect existence

...

catmaSutra cat art of the Day

Cat Art Zen Collectibles

....

Look for the stillness

that underlies everything.

Before you sleep,

make a list of ten little things

that made you happy.

....

Cook with Love

2009-09-24T11:05:00.000-07:00

Kitty photo of the day

From Scott C (sec611)'s photostream

Zen Quote of the Day

Cook with love -

it's what separates good food from mere fuel.

catmaSutra cat art of the day

Soup Inspector from "From the Depths of My Lullaby" cat art exhibition

Seize the novelty and uniqueness of every moment

Soup Inspector Tile coaster

Be just plain happy.

Be happy in the being

and the knowing.

Tote bag from the catmaSutra cat art Collectibles

What you do for yourself,

you are doing for others,

and what you do for others,

you are doing for yourself.

Trust the connection

you have with the world.

Carry it in your heart.

;)

Generous Thought

2009-09-23T10:53:00.000-07:00

Kitty photo of the day

Zen Quote of the day

No point in trying to plan everything out,

dive into the present moment and tap

into your wellspring of intuitive guidance.

catmaSutra cat art of the Day

Drunk.Punch.Love

Think generous thoughts

;)

Let them go

2009-09-22T11:36:00.000-07:00

Kitty photo of the Day

From Tabbymom was B and V Cats' photostream

Zen Quote of the Day
Be aware of actions, emotional states, intentions,
and mental and physcial reactions.
then let them go.

Morning Cat

Be like a lotus,
Open your heart and
drink in the morning sun

;)

The Bearable Lightness of Being

2009-09-20T12:31:00.000-07:00

Zen Quote of the day
Sit, stop, become a human still life.

Do nothing,

be nothing,

except breathe.

catmaSutra cat art of the Day

The Bearable Lightness of Being

Kitty photo of the day

From Baby Kailan

;)

The Art of Mindful Living

2009-09-19T05:39:00.000-07:00

Zen Quote of the day

The art of mindful living requires keen interest
and a lifetime of gentle and determined effort,
remembering to wake up over and over again.

catmaSutra cat art of the Day, The Pilgrimage

Kitty photo of the day

Introducing Kitty Kong aka Mr. Grrr
aka Señor Pablo Kitty (the mountain lion)
From dfe's photostream

;)