A quick study on fleshy and pale tones. Pardon the nakedness. 8-)
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“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.”
“You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
We are the new definition of SMALL. Lesser than space dust even.
And here I am worrying about my troubles, when in fact all of them are pretty meaningless, compared to the vastness of the heavens out and above us. When there are worlds and worlds of new possibilites that can break the foundations of everything we ever believed in, yes, even shatter our concepts, our puny, sad existence. (Read about new theories about the universe, its expansion is accelarating! Not deccelarating! Uh-oh?)
We have a good habit of forgetting. Even Da Vinci and Einstein may well turn over their graves if they knew what we now could see through Hubble. Take the time to look and enjoy. :)
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."
Albert Einstein