In a Nutshell

Source: http://www.sharenator.com/Insane_illusions_architecture/
Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.
-          Nancy Gibbs

If I am not for myself, who is for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?
-          Hillel

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased [...]

Posted on April 16th, 2010 under Art of Reframing, Chapters, English. Tags: Albert Einstein, art, future, illusion, Mark Twain, past, photography, present, reality, world. Comments: 1

Et si tu n’existais pas
Je crois que je l’aurais trouvé
Le secret de la vie, le pourquoi
Simplement pour te créer
Et pour te regarder
Above all, I like beauty, balance, and harmony.  It may come as existence inspiring, uplifting and intoxicating as the scent of fresh rain mixed with the air of spring or melancholic, enigmatic and refined.
I [...]

Posted on November 28th, 2009 under Chapters, English, Love, My Lava Life. Tags: absurdity, allusion, balance, beauty, blue, Conversations, courage, Dancing, depth, enigmatic, existence, fluidity, formlessness, happiness, harmony, illusion, images, indifference, insanity, intensity, Joe Dassin, kindred, kindred spirit, LavaLife, luxury, melancholic, mental constipation, mood, Orange, passion, perfection, philosophy, poetry, profile, verbal diarrhea. Comments: None

 
Sergei Yesenin (4 Oct. 1895 – 27 Dec. 1925)
 
My Life
 
It appears, my life is fated to torment;
My way is dammed up by grief and distress.
My life has been severed from fun and enjoyment,
Vexation and wounds are afflicting my chest.
 
It seems I’m fated to suffer from pain.
All I have in this life are bad luck and [...]

Posted on August 31st, 2009 under English, Literature, Russian. Tags: distress, illusion, life, Literature, poetry, Russian, Sergei Yesenin, torment. Comments: 8