What is Beauty?
Whatever is beautiful at all is beautiful in itself. Its beauty ends there, and praise has no part in it. Nothing is the better or the worse for being praised. …
Find Balance In Your Life
Length and shortness create each other, from each other. The ideas of height and lowness arise from a contrast between the two. The musical notes of the scale become harmonious …
Sketchbooking
This may seem like a new topic for my posts, but I wanted to share something philosophical without cluttering up my Art page HERE. For me, a sketchbook seems to …
Government
As we were formerly by crimes, so we are now overburdened by law. Montaigne.
Intent
In the works of mankind, as in those of nature, it is really the motive which is chiefly worth attention. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Basho’s 9th Century Message for Today
Basho was a master of the ninth century. One day he was sitting with his feet across the garden-path. A monk came along with a wheel-barrow. Tuck in your feet, …
You Are The Buddha
There is no such person as Buddha. Buddha is simply a Sanskrit word meaning initiate. The Absolute is immanent in every man’s heart. This treasure of the heart is the …
Alaska in Summer
Ghost Train In the Snow This train mysteriously appeared in my picture. There was no train there when I took a picture of the empty railroad tracks.