tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57771522011-12-14T21:57:34.040-05:00REFLECTIONSREFLECTIONS- IDEAS, THOUGHTS & LAUGHS:
Deep quotes for thinking people.
Philosophy, faith, no faith, existentialism,
science, current events or whatever I'm reading
or comes to mind.
Your comments & quotes are appreciated.
WARREN THOMPSON
Ocala, FloridaWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.comBlogger8291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-65120721754031719222011-08-22T12:49:00.000-04:002011-08-22T12:49:52.395-04:00New On Line Business Card:
ShareWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-34849002215453067132011-05-17T07:40:00.000-04:002011-05-17T07:40:43.477-04:00Thompson Gallery - Fine ArtThompson Gallery - Fine ArtNew Media Buttons for my art site!!WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-6436549152980124322011-05-17T06:31:00.000-04:002011-05-17T06:31:09.220-04:00Thompson Gallery - Ocala, FL - Fine Art - FineArtAmericaThompson Gallery - Ocala, FL - Fine Art - FineArtAmericaWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-10728504467607543172011-04-18T21:34:00.000-04:002011-04-18T21:35:00.254-04:00Warren Thompson Watercolor Paintings:warren thompson watercolors paintingsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-89964031120783544372011-04-18T21:28:00.000-04:002011-04-18T21:29:37.165-04:00Reflections and Photos:reflections photosWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-52277406255702199712011-04-18T21:25:00.000-04:002011-04-18T21:26:14.414-04:00Warren Thompson Art Page Sponsorship:warren thompson art paintingsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-80991403315205550892011-04-18T21:19:00.001-04:002011-04-18T21:21:20.041-04:00http://fineartamerica.com/art/photographs/warren+thompson+art/allWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-68698964483719383602011-04-18T20:01:00.001-04:002011-04-18T20:04:07.553-04:00The Untapped Source:http://www.theuntappedsource.com/thompsongalleryWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-7172988118274877902011-04-18T19:59:00.000-04:002011-04-18T20:01:02.771-04:00A new short video promo for my art:WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-72843601041435393962011-03-22T22:16:00.000-04:002011-03-22T22:16:46.314-04:00Thompson Gallery- Ocala, FloridaThompson Gallery- Ocala, FloridaWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-67667158155738311302011-02-17T22:27:00.001-05:002011-02-17T22:31:08.316-05:00New E bay listing. 50. Starting Bid. Buy It Now 75.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220741448975WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-15682517096272493862011-01-01T14:23:00.000-05:002011-01-01T14:24:20.497-05:00Happy New Year 2011!WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-64877868345275973822010-11-04T10:02:00.002-04:002010-11-04T10:09:11.995-04:00Featured at Artfire...See Snowy Shadows #widgetcont p{ padding:0; margin:0; } .title_brown, .title_brown a, .title_brown a:link, .title_brown a:active, .title_brown a:visited, .title_brown a:hover { color:#dfa754; font-weight:bold; }.title_charc, .title_charc a, .title_charc a:link, .title_charc a:active, .title_charc a:visited, .title_charc a:hover { color:#333333; font-weight:bold; }Baby Its WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-31624699639635062772010-07-18T13:40:00.000-04:002010-07-18T13:41:26.244-04:00Fine Art of America- Mountains Printsmountains printsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-91584903905837496962010-07-18T13:36:00.000-04:002010-07-18T13:37:23.757-04:00Fine Art of America-Landscape Printslandscape printsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-77025601934919101512010-07-18T13:31:00.000-04:002010-07-18T13:32:40.950-04:00Fine Art of America- Florida Printsflorida printsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-31723668917766085082010-07-18T13:26:00.001-04:002010-07-18T13:27:46.106-04:00Fine Art of America-Lighthouse Printslighthouse printsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-47050044571842283532010-07-18T13:19:00.001-04:002010-07-18T13:19:52.096-04:00Fine Art of America- Sunset Paintingssunset paintingsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-81860227401158632342010-07-18T13:14:00.001-04:002010-07-18T13:16:45.380-04:00Fine Art of America- Shadows Paintingsshadows paintingsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-90528364832433551942010-06-19T06:15:00.001-04:002010-06-19T06:15:56.713-04:00WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-59526375234396945312010-06-13T20:22:00.001-04:002010-06-13T20:22:43.013-04:00FAA Watercolor Printswatercolor printsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-52676281310941797732010-06-13T20:01:00.001-04:002010-06-13T20:02:26.518-04:00FAA Mountain paintingsmountain paintingsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-86276526144960371162010-06-13T19:54:00.000-04:002010-06-13T19:55:29.692-04:00FAA Flower Photographsflower photosWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-52120973742892344862010-06-08T22:46:00.001-04:002010-06-08T22:46:58.569-04:00FAA Watercolor Paintingswatercolor paintingsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-31890829580871443072010-06-08T21:33:00.000-04:002010-06-08T21:34:16.328-04:00FAA Landscape Paintingslandscape paintingsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-50898017492100600272010-06-08T21:30:00.001-04:002010-06-08T21:30:47.442-04:00FAA Florida Photography:florida photosWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-12171889546204907482010-06-08T21:18:00.001-04:002010-06-08T21:18:59.006-04:00FAA Mountain Paintingsmountains paintingsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-36173884121587872862010-06-08T21:11:00.000-04:002010-06-08T21:13:18.485-04:00FAA Lighthouseslighthouse paintingsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-73299559352463285832010-06-07T23:13:00.002-04:002010-06-08T07:40:41.895-04:00Fine Art of Americaflowers photo all/WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-34788973430287490552010-05-06T20:46:00.001-04:002010-05-06T20:46:50.923-04:00WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-950135714914242482010-03-17T17:37:00.001-04:002010-03-17T17:38:34.672-04:00Now showing at Primary Oven Ocala,Fl.WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-41216707480545078422010-03-17T17:35:00.000-04:002010-03-17T17:36:28.627-04:00Now showing at Primary Oven- Ocala,Fl.WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-70134046855321889882009-11-03T16:42:00.001-05:002009-11-03T16:42:42.386-05:00Second CommissionWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-40569252406207669732009-11-03T16:33:00.002-05:002009-11-03T16:41:02.827-05:00Winter LightWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-15495762355691910412009-11-03T16:30:00.004-05:002009-11-03T16:40:20.406-05:00Chimney Rock Western NebraskaWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-65789955905291825722009-11-03T16:29:00.002-05:002009-11-03T16:39:16.801-05:00Reflecting El CapitanWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-81016669345564461692009-11-03T16:26:00.002-05:002009-11-03T16:37:42.335-05:00Vegi TailsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-15802747633847447072009-11-03T16:24:00.000-05:002009-11-03T16:25:29.021-05:00"There is no more evidence to justify a belief in the literal existence of Yahweh or Satan than there was to keep Zeus perched upon his mountain throne or Poseidon churning the sea ... we as a species have grown perfectly intoxicated by our myths." - Sam HarrisWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-75444165916509935612009-10-06T16:02:00.001-04:002009-10-06T16:02:32.801-04:00if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('ffc90672-8a13-478d-a315-46078165f19c');Get the Daily Painters International Art Gallery widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! 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H.L. MenckenWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-39312531405063297872009-07-12T21:17:00.000-04:002009-07-12T21:18:02.363-04:00Extracts from Adam's DiaryThursday"She has taken up with a snake now.The other animals are glad, for she was always experimenting with them and bothering them; and I am glad, beacuse the snake talks,and this enables me to get a rest."Mark TwainWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-69396565093560201172009-05-25T17:54:00.000-04:002009-05-25T17:55:27.342-04:00Powerful Winds of Tierra del Fuego Argentina is a watercolor painting from an idea I had from a book on Argentina.WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-5414271998026133152009-05-25T17:49:00.000-04:002009-05-25T17:51:14.751-04:00St. Marks Lighthouse 4 18 X 14 Interactive Acrylic on canvas board. My first with the Interactive acrylic.WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-37898474724016705982009-05-15T20:44:00.001-04:002009-05-15T20:46:31.327-04:00"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." -Carl JungWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-84051254056933347162009-04-27T22:53:00.000-04:002009-04-27T22:54:12.849-04:00WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-91507079224056838262009-03-08T07:55:00.000-04:002009-03-08T07:56:40.667-04:00"A well-composed painting is half done." -Pierre Bonnard "Even in front of nature one must compose." -Edgar DegasWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-29955441676216065012009-03-08T07:49:00.001-04:002009-03-08T07:50:39.136-04:00"Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason." -Ayn RandWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-65270877531062380022009-02-17T19:41:00.004-05:002009-02-17T19:47:10.499-05:00Emersons Illustrated Quotationshttp://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/emerson/ephemera/illustratedquotations.htmlWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-78823324709174797652009-01-18T07:36:00.001-05:002009-01-18T07:36:54.387-05:00Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-25437236732496125702009-01-13T18:48:00.000-05:002009-01-13T18:49:23.062-05:00I hear, and I forget;I see, and I remember;I do, and I understand. -Confucius (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-29379607844358756782008-12-14T09:01:00.000-05:002008-12-14T09:02:36.224-05:00Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, in his "Letters to a Young Poet", wrote, "You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you becauseWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-59176603188987961612008-12-08T22:26:00.001-05:002008-12-08T22:26:46.551-05:00Tao te Ching:When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad.Being and non-being create each other.Difficult and easy support each other.Long and short define each other.High and low depend on each other.Before and after follow each other.WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-83271172244593902762008-12-02T19:47:00.001-05:002008-12-02T19:49:38.195-05:00"We paint best when we lean on our nervous system." -Francis Bacon So many of our painting problems are really problems of sight. The great writer, lecturer and professor of comparative mythology, Joseph Campbell advised, "Look, look long, and the world comes in." This applies to the making of art. The art historian Ernst Gombrich made the idea into a poem:Seeing depends on your knowledgeAnd WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-21954717322448643532008-11-21T06:44:00.000-05:002008-11-21T06:45:04.671-05:00"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it." -Ralph Waldo EmersonWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-40682172042753415302008-11-16T09:22:00.000-05:002008-11-16T09:23:21.932-05:00As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. ~ Henry David Thoreau WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-60968079761809376142008-11-07T06:48:00.000-05:002008-11-07T06:49:28.457-05:00"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." -Barack ObamaWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-48000047997949825882008-11-04T06:34:00.002-05:002008-11-04T06:34:57.632-05:00"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me." -Mahatma GandhiWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-4312096636537956442008-11-02T06:39:00.000-05:002008-11-02T06:40:00.540-05:00"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-43440321021346925282008-10-31T21:46:00.000-04:002008-10-31T21:47:15.268-04:00"The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter." -John UpdikeWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-86363442528658353912008-10-29T19:20:00.001-04:002008-10-29T19:22:14.152-04:00You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.You cannot helpWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-2161236632002240952008-10-26T20:28:00.001-04:002008-10-26T20:28:43.110-04:00Reading # 662 from *Singing the LivingTradition*:"STRANGE AND FOOLISH WALLS"The years of all of us are short, our lives precarious. *Our days and nights go hurrying on and there is scarcely time to do thelittle that we might.*Yet we find time for bitterness, for petty treason and evasion.* What can we do to stretch our hearts enough to lose their littleness!*Here we are -- all of us-- all upon WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-86358402525337879192008-10-25T09:41:00.000-04:002008-10-25T09:42:02.113-04:00“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” -- Cicero 106 - 43 BC WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-24820047288655463842008-10-22T20:03:00.001-04:002008-10-22T20:04:55.942-04:00Humes Dialogues -12-p.84"It is certain, from experience, that the smallest grain of honestyand benevolence has more effect on men's conduct, than the most pompous views, suggested by theological theories and systems."-PhiloWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-62634105858127803162008-10-14T22:46:00.001-04:002008-10-14T22:49:15.076-04:00Ludwig Büchner: Force and Matter--Empirico-Philosophical Studies Intelligibly Rendered, 1855http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1855buchner.html--------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is one of the most successful, and early, statements on Materialism stemming from the conclusions of the New Science.Force and MatterNo force without matter---no matter WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-56418888958049073422008-10-14T22:22:00.001-04:002008-10-14T22:22:38.853-04:00 “It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.” - H.L. Mencken WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-47945669400109695982008-10-10T22:06:00.001-04:002008-10-10T22:10:51.021-04:00We Give Thanks for BeingWe Give Thanks for Being HereWe Give Thanks for Being Here Together(optional Amen)attributed to John Buehrens and to othersYou, and all your associates, will probably find this worthy, and you and they will very likely miss something truly offensive in what some others call "prayer". So, take the challenge, lead the prayer, and guess what, it's both short, and very easy WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-48445705926515101382008-10-06T14:02:00.001-04:002008-10-06T14:02:31.851-04:00If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-90354040626188550082008-09-28T09:49:00.001-04:002008-09-28T09:49:54.292-04:00It Ain't Necessarily SoIt ain't necessarily so, (repeat)De t'ings dat yo' li'bleTo read in de Bible,It ain't necessarily so.Li'l David was small, but oh my! (rpt)He fought big GoliathWho lay down an' dieth!Li'l David was small, but oh my!Oh, Jonah, he lived in de whale, (rpt)Fo' he made his home inDat fish's abdomen.Oh, Jonah, he lived in de whale.Li'l Moses was found in a stream, (rpt)He floatedWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-24429899046186071042008-09-26T06:50:00.001-04:002008-09-26T06:50:37.427-04:00"Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline." -George EliotWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-26435190389795612292008-09-24T17:39:00.000-04:002008-09-24T17:40:50.258-04:00"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." Pablo PicassoWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-11821342570842407182008-09-19T07:14:00.002-04:002008-09-19T07:20:02.604-04:00 On women artists:"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." (Eleanor Roosevelt)I shared Suzanne's letter with my painter daughter. "It seems to me, Dad," she said, "this is not a letter about the subjugation of women artists... it isn't a feminist issue... it's a self-esteem issue. Thriving as an artist--in all of its forms--our entitlement to our lives and livelihood, WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-5650363676270517472008-09-12T07:42:00.000-04:002008-09-12T07:43:33.376-04:00John Cage's "Rules for Students and Teachers." Here they are: 1 Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for awhile.2 General duties of a student--pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students.3 General duties of a teacher--pull everything out of your students.4 Consider everything an experiment.5 Be self-disciplined--this means finding someone wiseWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-84080885618527428292008-09-07T08:14:00.000-04:002008-09-07T08:16:00.999-04:00Mark Twain ~ "Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to -- both have their advantages, 'heaven for climate, hell for company!'"Isaac Asimov ~ "For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-66758320821306230632008-09-05T15:45:00.001-04:002008-09-05T15:45:48.415-04:00But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. ~ Alan Watts WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-81214303674274377972008-09-01T19:48:00.001-04:002008-09-01T19:53:41.758-04:00Heidegger from his 1927-1928 lectures on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason "Philosophy belongs to the most original of human endeavors...It is precisely these original human endeavors that have their constancy in never losing their questionable character and in thus returning to the same point and finding there their sole source of energy. The constancy of these endeavors does not consist in the WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-42372767274805788602008-09-01T19:48:00.000-04:002008-09-01T19:49:04.200-04:00"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure... lifeis either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller "Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in theday to find that all was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerousmen for they may act their dream with open eyes and make it possible."- T.E. Lawrence"To be yourself in a world that WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-22021423181725671192008-09-01T09:26:00.001-04:002008-09-01T09:26:58.611-04:00ONE BRIGHT'S EXPRESSIONWhy I Do Not Fear DeathTo me, the dozen billion years(a time scale we can't comprehend)that passed before my day of birthgive comfort for the coming end.To know that not one atom inmy body at the age of fiveremains within me still todaychanges the meaning of "alive."And all the billions yet to passafter my carcass has decayedare bookends for a single lifeso precious, by WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-57042901132608238582008-08-27T23:10:00.000-04:002008-08-27T23:11:02.013-04:00I believe in answers supported by evidence, experiments, observations, measurements and finally proof. I believe that natural laws, both known and some yet undiscovered, allow for the existence of the universe and everything within it, including life. No magic required. I believe that all of the finer abstract values of human beings such as love, tolerance, patience, forgiveness, charity, WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-90896856737462896882008-08-26T06:43:00.000-04:002008-08-26T06:44:21.372-04:00"Nothing builds confidence like accomplishment." -Thomas CarlyleWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-7911263808496974012008-08-24T07:45:00.000-04:002008-08-24T07:46:20.190-04:00"To see is to know"Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-78434965478806048622008-08-23T11:47:00.001-04:002008-08-23T11:47:52.666-04:00"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves." --E.M. Forster WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-41155362823240459682008-08-19T22:48:00.000-04:002008-08-19T22:49:22.573-04:00"There is more to life than increasing its speed."Mahatma Ghandi("Gandhi ranked Thoreau among the greatest of several influences in his life. He admired his courage and practical ideals, his virtue, and refers to them often in his own writings." Michael J. Frederick)WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-55683391538363344822008-08-09T07:46:00.000-04:002008-08-09T07:47:11.716-04:00Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. ~Emily DickinsonThe truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do. ~E.V. Lucas DustyJewelWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-245153859319809232008-08-06T20:32:00.002-04:002008-08-06T20:43:21.382-04:00ON Censorship:We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~Henry Steele CommagerThe only valid censorship WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-13697626430659137812008-08-01T09:27:00.001-04:002008-08-01T09:27:44.397-04:00 “Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”- Dag Hammarskjold WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-33088006762713154772008-07-27T15:46:00.001-04:002008-07-27T15:49:42.812-04:00 Words by Albert Schweitzer " At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. " - UU Hymnal 447WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-85983071982625580692008-07-27T14:41:00.004-04:002008-07-27T15:12:55.965-04:00"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God."-Ralph Waldo Emerson**********"Empirical science offers these well-subtantiated facts: The Universe is billions of years old. Complex atoms were forged in the cores of stars.Earth is younger than the Milky Way Galaxy. Life evolved from the simple from the simple to the complex.Dinosaurs and sabertooth cats once roamed this planet.We have "WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-45775334651808657002008-07-22T06:46:00.000-04:002008-07-22T06:47:27.852-04:00I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.~John BurroughsWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-86169554366399266102008-06-29T08:53:00.001-04:002008-06-29T08:56:04.703-04:00George Carlin's Views on Aging Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions. 'How old are you?' 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key. You get into your teens, now they can't hold you WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-53076308401034670562008-06-23T22:00:00.001-04:002008-06-23T22:02:31.229-04:00Some of George Carlins best lines:Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-33852575992425725332008-06-22T15:42:00.001-04:002008-06-22T15:43:54.819-04:00"Of The Terrible Doubt Of Appearances"by Walt WhitmanOf the terrible doubt of appearances,Of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded,That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all,That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills,shining and flowing waters,The skies of day and night, colors, WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-47592559715379503772008-06-09T06:54:00.000-04:002008-06-09T06:55:28.258-04:00http://www.ocala.com/article/20080607/LIVING02/963582160I am thankful for this group. A man and his wife that I met in my work as a chaplain, affected me profoundly. I discovered a philosophy of life that was new to me. I have been honored to be a speaker over the years and at other fellowships in Central FL.Congratulations on a dream achieved and more dreams to be realized.WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-10946461572216877592008-06-02T23:17:00.000-04:002008-06-02T23:18:19.027-04:00The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day. ~Kenneth PattonWARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777152.post-23851600602980652592008-05-26T07:10:00.001-04:002008-05-26T07:12:52.221-04:00Peace "Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarreled with him?" -Blaise Pascal"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."-WARRENhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05870115035596621207noreply@blogger.com0