Fantasy, the escape route...

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.

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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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