There exists a stream of consciousness which finds its genesis in what came before… and its purpose in what lay ahead. The messaging has been revealing, if we but take note and notice of the greater meaning within the works themselves. Whether through statesmanship, composition, the canvas or the cloth, each master has shared one brotherhood among many: the creation of the extraordinary through such ordinary means.
To be honored through our own inspiration, as virtue meets with an even higher set of ideals, intentions. The conveyors of truth through human times…
‘There is one thing in this world that you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there’s nothing left to worry about. But if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life.’ – Rumi
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‘No matter where you go, there you are.’ – Confucius
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‘I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.’ – Michelangelo
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‘Do every act of your life… as if it were your last.’ – Marcus Aurelius
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‘For it is in the giving that we receive…’ – Saint Francis of Assisi
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‘All of mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable; those that are movable; and those that move.’ – Benjamin Franklin
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‘All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy…and great things in that which is small.’ – Lao-Tzu
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‘Wisdom never lies.’ – Homer
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‘All that spirits desire, spirits attain.’ – Kahlil Gibran
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‘Love of the world is the root of all evil.’ – Mohammed
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‘A true friend is one soul in two bodies.’ – Aristotle
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‘He travels best that knows when to return.’ – Sir Thomas More
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‘I am not afraid…I was born to do this.’ - Joan of Arc
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‘The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.’ - Galileo
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‘Be the change you wish to see in the world.’ – Gandhi
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‘‘The mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent… trying to control it is like trying to control the wind.’ – Krishna
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‘‘Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.’ - Leonardo da Vinci
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‘I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.’ – Michelangelo Buonarroti
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‘A chief event of life is in the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.’ - Emerson
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‘I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.’ - Sir Isaac Newton
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‘Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.’ - Parcelesus
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‘’No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.’ - Buddha
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‘A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.’ - King Solomon
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‘The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.’ - René Descartes
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‘And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.’ – Walt Whitman
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‘He that believeth on me, the words that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.’ – Jesus the Christ
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‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a mean to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.’ – Moses Maimonides
There are more. There will be more.
