RON HENGGELER

July 11, 2021
A few recent photos, paired with some favorite notable quotes.

A special thanks to F.M.

Yourself is sacred; be true to it. Paul Brunton

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi

All great art is a visual form of prayer. Sister Wendy Beckett

We have art in order not to die of life. Albert Camus

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. Aristotle

We cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, or the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein

Four billion years ago the earth was a hot barren rock, and now it can sing opera. Brian Swimme

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! Robert Browning

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility... The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle. Albert Einstein

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. Georges Braque

Creativity is not a motive, it's simply an attitude of open-mindedness. Eleanor Blair

How wondrously supernatural, and miraculous this! I draw water, and I carry fuel! P’ang Chu-Shih

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is required is sight and insight – then you might add one more: excite. Robert Frost

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is all comprehensible. Albert Einstein

Once I was a cloud. Once I was a rock. This is not poetry. This is science. Vietnamese Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. Charles William Dement

Things are not as they seem. Nor are they otherwise. Zen saying

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. G.K. Chesterton

That the world is, is the mystical. Ludwig Wittenstein

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them. Robert Genn

Art's whatever you choose to frame. Fleur Adcock

The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration. Paul Brunton

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. William Blake

Creativity is not and never has been sensible. Julia Cameron

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to original dimensions. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us. Roy Adzak

Everything you do is Zen. Bodhidharma

We don’t need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful. Carlos Castaneda

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves comes when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell

We now know that the moon is demonstrably not there when nobody looks. N. David Mermin

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. Dag Hammarskjold

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. Stephen Richards

Almost everything you will do is meaningless, but it is still important to do it. Mahatma Gandhi

Gnothi seauton. Know thyself. (From the Temple of Apollo at Delphi)

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. Edward de Bono

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. Joseph Campbell

If one has to think about the next brush stroke, then the train to spontaneity has been missed. Doug Mays

There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization. Meher Baba

The object of art is to give life a shape. William Shakespeare

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes. Rumi

When the soul lies down in the grass, the world is too full to talk about. Rumi

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.  Joseph Campbell

We are all children, learning and playing, sharing and being amazed. Melissa Jean

Being has not been given its due. Jean-Paul Sartre

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky. Ojibway saying

My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness. Michelangelo

I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell

The one who meditates on the Divine is like a tree planted by streams of water. Psalm 1

In Wildness is the preservation of the World. Henry Thoreau

Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars. Serbian Proverb

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don’t understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time. Janet Wagner

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. Leonardo Da Vinci

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live. Buddha

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly. Paulo Coelho

My heart is so small it’s almost invisible. How can you place such big sorrows in it? Look, He answered, your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world. Rumi

It’s the spectator who makes the pictures. Marcel Duchamp

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms. Muriel Ruckeyser

Throb thine with Nature’s throbbing breast. Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Tecumseh

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. Henry Ward Beecher

Paradise is to love many things with a passion. Picasso

 

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