Tuesday, March 20, 2007

The Indomitable Human Spirit

I have great love for all humankind. But there are those few dear people that I bond myself to irrevocably. To those people, my soul is forever joined in a way that makes them as much a part of me as the very heart that beats life through my veins. To each of those people I give myself wholly and unconditionally, and I will love them every day for the rest of my life and into whatever great beyond lies ahead. This is the sort of thing that makes life exponentially more beautiful. First and foremost, it is my belief that the beauty and joy of life cannot be fully experienced unless it is shared with another, and it is that bonding of our souls to one another that grants us the most fulfilling sort of peace and the most elated joy that humankind can possibly know. This is who I am, and no matter how I grow and change, this one thing about me will always remain my strong hold. It is only through our indomitable compassion for humankind and our deep human bonds that we can experience the meaning of being human, of being alive.
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QUOTES:

“Pain passes but the beauty remains.”
~Pierre Auguste Renoir


“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen in a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of man. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, but always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life; I found it worth living.”
~Bertrand Russell.


“Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry."
~Mark Twain


In a cosmos of billions of galaxies,
In a galaxy of billions of stars,
There's a planet with billions of people~
The only one we know of~
And every breath we breathe is a miracle.
Our hearts pump.
We see.
We feel.
We taste.
We touch our world.
And sometimes we forget the pure wonder
Of our brief journey on earth.
My life is committed to making artwork,
That wakes people up to the miracle of life.
The value of being human
And the transformative power of love.
There are moments when we see behind
The opaque curtain of life.
When the infinite One
Shines through the skin of the beloved,
And we recognize the game we are in,
The journey we are on,
The powerful beings that we are
And the truth that is worth living for.
~Alex Grey, Artist