Life n its Lessons

Looked up at my sky … and wondered if it was worth walking away from it all…

Every bit walked away from in the past…  Only to get closer to another in present

As plain and simple as it seems … only a figment of my imagination it will always be

Sometimes i wish if life were any different … Then there are times i would have it none other way …

As the lines of destiny evolve .. so will i ….

Peace
Timber Da Wolf

An Oak Tree: Michael Craig-Martin, 1973

I saw this not on facebook this afternoon…..Seems so complex in context of a conversation.. Yet i can find one word to define it…

In a room at Tate Modern there is a three-quarter full glass of water on a high shelf. It is a work by Michael Craig-Martin called An oak tree. Beside it there is the following text:

Q. To begin with, could you describe this work?

A. Yes, of course. What I’ve done is change a glass of water into a full-grown oak tree without altering the accidents of the glass of water.

Q. The accidents?

A. Yes. The colour, feel, weight, size …

Q. Do you mean that the glass of water is a symbol of an oak tree?

A. No. It’s not a symbol. I’ve changed the physical substance of the glass of water into that of an oak tree.

Q. It looks like a glass of water.

A. Of course it does. I didn’t change its appearance. But it’s not a glass of water, it’s an oak tree.

Q. Can you prove what you’ve claimed to have done?

A. Well, yes and no. I claim to have maintained the physical form of the glass of water and, as you can see, I have. However, as one normally looks for evidence of physical change in terms of altered form, no such proof exists.

Q. Haven’t you simply called this glass of water an oak tree?

A. Absolutely not. It is not a glass of water anymore. I have changed its actual substance. It would no longer be accurate to call it a glass of water. One could call it anything one wished but that would not alter the fact that it is an oak tree.

Q. Isn’t this just a case of the emperor’s new clothes?

A. No. With the emperor’s new clothes people claimed to see something that wasn’t there because they felt they should. I would be very surprised if anyone told me they saw an oak tree.

Q. Was it difficult to effect the change?

A. No effort at all. But it took me years of work before I realised I could do it.

Q. When precisely did the glass of water become an oak tree?

A. When I put the water in the glass.

Q. Does this happen every time you fill a glass with water?

A. No, of course not. Only when I intend to change it into an oak tree.

Q. Then intention causes the change?

A. I would say it precipitates the change.

Q. You don’t know how you do it?

A. It contradicts what I feel I know about cause and effect.

Q. It seems to me that you are claiming to have worked a miracle. Isn’t that the case?

A. I’m flattered that you think so.

Q. But aren’t you the only person who can do something like this?

A. How could I know?

Q. Could you teach others to do it?

A. No, it’s not something one can teach.

Q. Do you consider that changing the glass of water into an oak tree constitutes an art work?

A. Yes.

Q. What precisely is the art work? The glass of water?

A. There is no glass of water anymore.

Q. The process of change?

A. There is no process involved in the change.

Q. The oak tree?

A. Yes. The oak tree.

Q. But the oak tree only exists in the mind.

A. No. The actual oak tree is physically present but in the form of the glass of water. As the glass of water was a particular glass of water, the oak tree is also a particular oak tree. To conceive the category ‘oak tree’ or to picture a particular oak tree is not to understand and experience what appears to be a glass of water as an oak tree. Just as it is imperceivable it also inconceivable.

Q. Did the particular oak tree exist somewhere else before it took the form of a glass of water?

A. No. This particular oak tree did not exist previously. I should also point out that it does not and will not ever have any other form than that of a glass of water.

Q. How long will it continue to be an oak tree?

A. Until I change it.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Marianna Williamson

What a man sees and decides to accept .. defines the scope of his vision..

Its strange why that thought passed me by tonight .. i have just been in this mode to question the status quo …all this week

Sometimes i wish i could replicate myself with teaching a few people i know .. Unfortunately an experience can only be shared on a table with words .. What one takes off the table makes all the difference to the end result …

For the most part i prefer to reserve my thoughts.. i know many people have questioned this approach … and they have every right to…

But sometimes its difficult to explain a thought with words or examples … when its abstract .. Only if i could make sense of it and have some definitive shape to express …

Half baked beans never did taste right ..

Peace
Timber Da Wolf

How much of human life is lost in waiting….

Emerson sure did hit the jackpot with that one… 9 words when strung up say so much .. yet seem so little ..

You can always speak a lot and mean none .. Or you can speak none .. but yet mean a lot…

What are words without meaning ? Ever question that ?

i do all the time…

Its strange how our years teach us .. the shorter our time the more we learn …

And Reasons simply don’t count.… Results Do…

Peace
Timber Da Wolf

Its a known fact.. that choices we make in our lives leads us down certain paths for the better or worse …

I have made many choices myself.. Maybe things would be different today if i did not make those choices… But no one can undo the past … and i would not like to either … i have learnt to live with them in most cases and leave them behind in some cases …. The accountability is and will always be solely mine…

People make choices … and sometimes when you care enough .. you feel accountable for the choices they make… This can often get a little too overwhelming to handle… and over time i have come to realize ..

Individuals need to own up to their choices and no matter how much you care .. In reality you can never really own up to the choices they make..

So as a wise man said once “Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your loved ones, and let them go their own way.”

We are whatever we are today because of the choices we made in our past .. And we will be whatever tomorrow based on the choices we make today…

Peace
Timber Da Wolf

If better were within, better would come out….

The only way better would get in .. is if you let it in…

Get it ?

The Path to Wisdom is a never ending journey of life .. leading well beyond our stupid little lives ..

No matter how smart or how dumb an individual is… If reaches a point in his life where he were to think he knows everything… Beyond that point of sublime wisdom he will never know anything.. Each individuals life will lead him down the path of many abstract truth’s… which unfortunately also leads one down a path which transforms into a tunnel view of the world around us.

Abstract truths reign in a world of multi dimensional perspectives… Don’t wait for the judgments.. they happen every minute all around you … But be open to advice even from a stranger ..

You will be amazed to find problems which steam from abstract truths also reside in the same multidimensional world.. as their solutions

I learn a new truth every day of my life.. some i accept some are still an uphill battle ..

Always do right–this will gratify some and astonish the rest…

Peace
Timber Da Wolf