The Strength of Your Love, Your Thoughts and Your Actions

Some words I gave a friend, today...


You control your thoughts, feelings and actions.  With simple deep breathing, taking pause to calm yourself, you can choose how to view a certain situation.  If you do not exercise your dominion over your body you leave reactionary emotions, thoughts and actions by your ego to wreak havoc on you.

You are strong enough to come this far...it all came from within you, and you will continue to reach from that powerful well of strength and love within you to press on forward. you will gain momentum as you apply yourself and your knowledge.  The outside world and everyone else around you will be of less influence as you stand firmly in your principles, your values, your love and strength.  For though it is possible for others to exert their own will upon your in violation of your own rights, at times, you can create safe ground in your thought, your emotions and press back outward, in time, your actions manipulating the world, your world, to your will, to your wishes.

The world will crumble around you and you will merely see it, knowing that just as you build your world, others have the right to build their own, even if it is to their destruction.

But you must not see your destiny in this end, you have come further than many, and there is yet further to go.

Take comfort in your strength, your love and act.

3.14 blown

Ready your pie hole for awesome!

Now I have to find a raw pumpkin/sweet potato pie recipe. >.>

BBC Two - Why Beauty Matters

"Philosopher Roger Scruton presents a provocative essay on the importance of beauty in the arts and in our lives.

In the 20th century, Scruton argues, art, architecture and music turned their backs on beauty, making a cult of ugliness and leading us into a spiritual desert.

Using the thoughts of philosophers from Plato to Kant, and by talking to artists Michael Craig-Martin and Alexander Stoddart, Scruton analyses where art went wrong and presents his own impassioned case for restoring beauty to its traditional position at the centre of our civilisation.

Part of the BBC2 Modern Beauty Season."

This was a joy to watch and features some compelling thoughts and imagery!  The most jolting quote comes from an interview with a classical sculptor regarding modern art as "an attempt to obliterate knowledge."

The video used to be on YouTube, but has been removed.  If you can find the opportunity to do so, watch it!