I know I would have gotten a lot more excited, if I could do this...Whoohoo...our minds are amazing.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014
The Holidays are over and it is the beginning of a new year - 2014! Wow... how time flies when you are having fun. The holidays were very good. Everyone in my household is very happy and healthy and that means a lot. However, I have not painted much. But I have had time for reflection on the past year... and happy thoughts about the future. Which brings my to my topic of being present in the present. I just bought a book. It is titled "NOW! The Art of Being Truly Present" by Jean Smith.
Randomly this morning I opened a page and began to read....about seeing.
This is what I read...
"I look out the window at noon and see the green trees, yellow flowers, and a brown house. I look out the same window at midnight and perceive only black and gray shapes.
Before changing lanes I check the rear-view and side mirrors but see nothing until I glance over my shoulder, and discover another car alongside my rear fender. When I become angry, I see red. When I am sad, I feel blue."
"WE HUMANS rely heavily on our sense of vision, even in metaphors. And yet what and how we see depend upon external conditions such as light and location, upon what we have been taught, and also our emotions. All of these conditions determine how we feel about what we see and how we respond through our actions. Whether we find something attractive or aversive does not inhere in the object we see, but rather its pleasant and unpleasant qualities are in "the eyes of the beholder" ourselves."
I highly recommend this book by Jean Smith. I found it on Amazon.
Randomly this morning I opened a page and began to read....about seeing.
This is what I read...
"I look out the window at noon and see the green trees, yellow flowers, and a brown house. I look out the same window at midnight and perceive only black and gray shapes.
Before changing lanes I check the rear-view and side mirrors but see nothing until I glance over my shoulder, and discover another car alongside my rear fender. When I become angry, I see red. When I am sad, I feel blue."
"WE HUMANS rely heavily on our sense of vision, even in metaphors. And yet what and how we see depend upon external conditions such as light and location, upon what we have been taught, and also our emotions. All of these conditions determine how we feel about what we see and how we respond through our actions. Whether we find something attractive or aversive does not inhere in the object we see, but rather its pleasant and unpleasant qualities are in "the eyes of the beholder" ourselves."
I highly recommend this book by Jean Smith. I found it on Amazon.
