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Howard Zinn:
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (And) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem" 

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Woman in Red

“The future is always beginning now”

~Mark Strand

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Frames

The Unselfconscious Process

One of the most confusing and paradoxical aspects of Zen is its view of the self. Zen says we aren't who we think we are. While we are seen to exist in the relative sense, in terms of the absolute, the dance and the dancer are considered to be one. Many spiritual traditions have seen similar truths, and claim that by losing one's life, life is indeed gained. By emptying we become full. While no doubt confusing for the novice, its implication for the photographer would be to forget oneself, as much as possible, when taking pictures. This, in fact, is a very common experience among musicians and painters, who often report "losing themselves" in their art. In a sense, the picture takes itself. In the words of Henri Cartier-Bresson, "you have to blend in like a fish in water, you have to forget yourself." The artist becomes the process of creation. When something bigger than the persona takes charge, when Life itself is given free reign unhampered by our premeditated ideas of what should happen, the resultant pictures can be quite remarkable.

John Greer

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Nature Morte

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Background Music:Tone Poem by Charles Lloyd - with Michel Petrucciani, Piano, Cecil McBee, Bass, Jack DeJohnette, Drums.

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Luciernagas / Fireflies

“What is life?

It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.

It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”

~Crowfoot

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Saturday Celebration

Talks and Writings of G. I. Gurdjieff

THE EVOLUTION OF MAN CAN BE TAKEN AS THE DEVELOPMENT IN HIM of those powers and possibilities which never develop by themselves, that is, mechanically. Only this kind of development, only this kind of growth, marks the real evolution of man. There is, and there can be, no other kind of evolution whatever.… 
     In speaking of evolution it is necessary to understand from the outset that no mechanical evolution is possible. The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness. And ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily. The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and ‘doing’ cannot be the result of things which ‘happen.’                                                                 

IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS, pp. 56, 58

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NYC - II (Secret Fiesta)

In the words of Henri Cartier-Bresson, "you have to blend in like a fish in water, you have to forget yourself."

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Janitzio

(Cross of a shrine in Janitzio Island. Mexico)

“No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.” 

~Jesus Christ

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Rorschach

Harold Pinter

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least.

Who can afford to live in the past?

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy.

I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

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