JUST DUST

2012-03-01T11:06:00.000+08:00

''Cowards can be the greatest and cruelest of bullies.''

2012-02-29T10:47:00.004+08:00

''The very act of making art is a journey of a

self personal discovery.''

Neil Armstrong's foot print on the moon 1969.

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2012-02-28T10:49:00.000+08:00

''Look on life like a fast flowing river with stepping stones to cross, some near

and some far apart.''

2012-02-27T10:08:00.000+08:00

''We know more times in war than we know times in peace.''

2012-02-26T13:13:00.006+08:00

''I speak for myself as a self taught artist,
in that I take pride in how far I have come
and have the confidence in myself as to
how far I will go.''

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2012-02-25T11:01:00.000+08:00

''When Emotion is in the front seat driving and out of control, Reason is in the back seat praying.''

2012-02-24T11:21:00.000+08:00

''The values in which we live our lives by are expressed in how we treat our fellow man.''

2012-02-23T11:06:00.000+08:00

''Creativity and solitude go hand in hand but not without sacrifices been made.''

2012-02-22T10:00:00.000+08:00

''Peace in the mind comes when the
mind stops thinking,
that will be the day ...
and if you do stop thinking and you don't notice it you can assume you are dead.''

2012-02-21T10:15:00.000+08:00

''The man who will go to war may have some kind of dogma or physical courage but he has no moral courage.''

2012-02-20T10:30:00.000+08:00

''My art has been my voice otherwise I would not have spoken.''

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2012-02-19T09:57:00.000+08:00

''I do not want to wake up one morning and find my humanity has abandoned me for some belief that is not of my own making.''

2012-02-18T09:11:00.003+08:00

''As human beings we tend to fear fear, but as human beings it is one of our survival needs to know fear, therefore we should try to use it as such but not so easy to put into practice when you come face to face with fear.''

2012-02-17T10:43:00.000+08:00

''It takes a lifetime to become wise and just a moment to become the fool.''

2012-02-15T11:06:00.000+08:00

''For every human being who stands up and speaks out for injustice sends a hope for the millions who cannot stand up to speak out for being human in a world that is for all to be treated as equal.''

2012-02-14T11:34:00.000+08:00

''Don't become poor by living beyond your means on borrowed money, others stand to gain from your actions, be wise in how it goes around but do you think the banks are there for you, they are there to profit from you.''

2012-02-13T11:55:00.000+08:00

''Good and Bad thoughts will manifest

in form, so be ready, it would be a tragedy
to miss out on anything.''

2012-02-12T11:59:00.000+08:00

Just a thought;

''Unlike those people, and I met a few this week, who seem to think there is a god who is only there for them and who also believe without-a-doubt that they and he are in direct contact with each other and that he works on their say or request be it in business or other peoples affairs ....

well, I don't have a god on my side and that's why I live my life day by day ... but if people can change age old habits that are handed down generation to generation and open their minds we might have less killing over a god or gods ...

oh, but what does a village do where they ring no bells or no call for prayer ... what do they do at dawn and dusk ...''

2012-02-11T12:52:00.000+08:00

''My heart was taken by you, broken by you and put back together by you and no doubt will be broken again, is this love or karma ...
who cares, both come with life's warning ..
'this emotion and this belief can kill'.''

2012-02-10T10:55:00.000+08:00

''I think there is more evil in the world now than at any time before and when you look back in history evil came with man and is not going to go away, therefore we know more times in war than we know times in Peace.''

2012-02-08T10:22:00.000+08:00

''The hidden message is the strongest one, it's an extension of ourselves.''

2012-02-07T10:10:00.000+08:00

''When someone is trying to move the blame over to you just for them to save 'face' it is best for you to close your mind and not to give it any thought for it is the thought in the mind playing over and over

that will bring you down.''

2012-02-03T11:52:00.003+08:00

Speaking as the artist;

''I have just spent weeks working on a life size clay figure to walk into 'the pigeonhole' [studio] this morning to find it collapsed on the floor and just when I thought I was getting it all together but I was not angry ... sad yes because it came to mind, isn't life just like this clay figure it can all collapse around you at any time but I will get the chance to play 'God' ... I will be in the business of 'resurrection'. If I give up on making sculpture I give up on life.''

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2012-02-02T10:51:00.003+08:00

''It's best to be alone than keep

bad company.''

2012-02-01T09:53:00.000+08:00

''We have some say in how we live

and others have a say in how they die

but we have no say in what happens after death.''

2012-01-31T11:06:00.000+08:00

''The worst situation to find yourself in

at any given time is the situation you can

do nothing about.''

2012-01-30T10:33:00.000+08:00

''Your mind is so powerful it could kill you.''

2012-01-29T11:19:00.000+08:00

''An Artist should know no borders and not to fear what others may think of his or her work.''

2012-01-28T11:25:00.000+08:00

''If you are sitting back and feeling content in your life, don't get too comfortable,

destiny will find you.''

2012-01-27T11:28:00.000+08:00

''It takes a strong will just to get through life but keep in mind, there is no such thing as a free ride.''

2012-01-26T11:43:00.003+08:00

''When I want to get in touch with myself I
make my sculpture but then I realize
how little I know of myself and so
the sculpture can become the

mirror of the self in thought.''

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2012-01-25T11:19:00.000+08:00

''The chances are that when you die there is no coming back, [and do you want too],

so live each day as it comes,

this one might be your very last.''

2012-01-24T12:51:00.000+08:00

''Why worry about seeing yourself as not being 'perfect', if you think that's how others see you you get another day to prove them wrong.''

2012-01-23T11:54:00.000+08:00

''It is better to try to bring into reality your dreams than to live in your dreams.''

2012-01-22T11:10:00.000+08:00

''What ever I do takes time

and yet it is always in the now.''

2012-01-21T13:14:00.000+08:00

''If it walks on all fours

and it's back is facing the skies,

it will be eaten.''

2012-01-20T11:21:00.006+08:00

''You have already failed in life if you sit back and do nothing in thinking you have
something to lose ...
sooner or later we all die so what have you
got to lose.''

2012-01-19T10:51:00.000+08:00

''Artists of any merit are always individualists.''

2012-01-18T11:30:00.000+08:00

''There is no running away from the fact that in our life time we will have to accept the consequence's for every thought and action we have and do ...

but don't let fear stop you, life is too short to let an emotion get in the way.''

2012-01-17T11:01:00.000+08:00

''A man's belief is not for another man to judge for man has the freewill to chose his own god and if a man dies for his beliefs he may be wrong in that choice, but, I feel the real courage is in living in a world where all men are accepted as equal in their beliefs and I speak as a freethinker.''

2012-01-16T11:41:00.003+08:00

''If you are walking the thin line always try to keep looking forward, never down and certainly
not over your shoulder,
because it is guaranteed others might
be trying to push you off.''

2012-01-15T11:58:00.006+08:00

Speaking as an artist;

''Art is essentially a personal response to the visual world that the artist, and most do I feel try always to look from a deeper involvement as in trying to get into the soul of all things but it ends up as only the essence of things in imitating the exterior surface and then that deepens the mystery even more as to what's real ...

but without Art there would be no joy or torment in being alive for my Art has been my voice, otherwise I would not have spoken.''

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2012-01-14T11:38:00.000+08:00

''Why do you want to piss on life before you have even lived it ... me, I have earned it.''

2012-01-11T10:59:00.000+08:00

''Life is a give and take situation ...

breathe in, breathe out.''

2012-01-10T10:39:00.000+08:00

''You want people to listen to what you have
to say,
hit them with a sledgehammer and then
you'll notice you have got their strict and undivided attention, maybe even with a smile on their face too.''

2012-01-09T10:54:00.000+08:00

''Look on life as living inside

a pin-ball machine.''

2012-01-08T11:29:00.000+08:00

''If you are happy in what you are doing you will have an inner peace and if you are not,

you will always be in conflict with yourself.''

2012-01-07T10:32:00.000+08:00

''If I was a dog I would be very happy in wagging my tail non-stop in thinking I would have no worries for my future with all the

'yes' people around.''

2012-01-06T10:47:00.003+08:00

''My art and the process of making it saved me from bah bah black sheep ...''

2012-01-05T13:24:00.000+08:00

Just a thought;

''When you stop seeing things in your life as being the way to show you the things in your life then don't start to wobble ...

now this can happen if you are wearing a yellow, blue, red

zig-zag striped jumpsuit with the words

''SUCH IS LIFE''

printed in red on the back and doing the world tour of

'the worlds highest bungee jumps wish I was some place else sites'

in a 1950's school bus painted black, my good-self driving and Jack the 'Diablo' reading out loud the map of his mind

with the author and director taking notes for the movie

'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'

and all singing ...

''and if that mocking bird won't sing, Mama's going to buy you a diamond ring''...

now this only happens when you stop seeing things in your life as the way to show you the things in your life

for eyes fail to see it and ears cannot hear it but the Mind

can discriminate itself from the very things that appear to

be outside itself without realising that it created these things and therefore all delusions become a state of the Mind

and firmly fixed and so we are no more than the activities of our Mind and fell into the Cuckoo's Nest ...

There you are Jack .. thought I might find you here ..

move over, the cuckoo calls ...''

2012-01-04T10:42:00.000+08:00

''The imagination is the Matrix in which all mind-games are played out, it's how far we ourselves want to get involved that brings the reality into play ...

still, all thoughts will come into reality

sooner or later.''

2012-01-03T11:51:00.000+08:00

''When I die I hope it will be another adventure I go on but nobody has come back here to tell, so it must be some bloody adventure or maybe they are in some kind of
h[e]aven and it's possible this must
be hell[uva].''

2012-01-02T11:39:00.009+08:00

''It is a curious mind that opens the way for creativity to be set free and a closed mind
to stay in ignorance in it's own
self-made prison.''

2012-01-01T12:13:00.000+08:00

''Today is the first day of my life and it very well could be the last day of my life ...

it is a 'groundhog' day.''

2011-12-31T11:58:00.000+08:00

''Today is the first day of my life and it very well could be the last day of my life ...

but it is a 'groundhog' day.''

2011-12-30T10:56:00.000+08:00

''It's stupidity at it's best and madness at it's worst

to try to save one lost sheep and leave the whole

flock vulnerable.''

2011-12-29T11:53:00.000+08:00

''Somehow I feel as human beings we are breaking all the moral principles as being human beings.''

2011-12-28T12:25:00.011+08:00

Just a thought:

If helping others gives a meaning to your life
then you depend on others to be worse off
than yourself so that your life can be meaningful
to you, you then have a purpose to your life as others have a purpose too ...
the ego being human that can only boost your ego,
but if you are coming from an

'inner purpose' you are then coming from

awareness where the ego cannot survive and this applies to all we do in life.''

2011-12-27T14:38:00.004+08:00

Speaking as an artist;
''In the process of creativity be it in mind

or action you will discover yourself

for creativity allows the soul to

connect to your humanness.''

2011-12-26T17:09:00.000+08:00

''Pay no attention to the one who wants to control your life, they are the ones who are insecure in their own life.''

2011-12-25T17:27:00.003+08:00

''I have being preparing for this day

or any given day and I am still not prepared but life begins at the end of your ...

hell-loooooooooo.''

2011-12-24T11:44:00.000+08:00

''Watch out for the fools,
they are everywhere on the road ..

including yourself.''

2011-12-23T11:07:00.000+08:00

''Emotion and Reason, it's a delicate balance if you were to lose either one or both
there's no telling what's going to happen.''

2011-12-22T10:48:00.000+08:00

''Drop your ego and your relationships will become more meaningful and loving.''

2011-12-21T10:45:00.000+08:00

''The one who can play the fool in front

of the King is the wise one.''

2011-12-20T10:24:00.000+08:00

''When you enter deep waters be prepared

to get wet.''

2011-12-19T10:50:00.000+08:00

''Life is what you choose to make it,

but it is also what makes you.''

2011-12-18T12:44:00.000+08:00

''To die in knowing yourself is to die in bliss
and to die in ignorance is to die in fear
but there is a greater loss and that is,
what dies inside of you when
you are still alive.''

2011-12-17T10:22:00.000+08:00

''If you have one bad apple in the barrel it's best to remove it, unless you want cider.''

2011-12-16T10:49:00.000+08:00

''Without silence there could be no sound.''

2011-12-14T12:11:00.000+08:00

''Anger acting-out is like as if it's on a Ferris Wheel pissing against the wind, it all comes back on you sooner than later.''

2011-12-13T12:35:00.006+08:00

Just a thought ..

''A man's belief is not for another man to judge for all men have freewill to choose and besides, some things are worth believing in whether they are true or false, it can be very easy to believe than to have doubt that can turn into pain but it's also a matter of a self-worth and comfort in life for most to have their belief and so in my ability as a human being and as a free-thinker that in accepting others as having a freewill for their belief's is moral sensibility and if those in their belief do like-wise then we can call ourselves brothers.''

2011-12-12T11:56:00.000+08:00

''It don't matter what yellow-brick-road you

skip-along through out life so long as it's yours

for every turn brings a new moment

a new opportunity that is precious only to you ...

the child in side you which is always there

knows this better than you which is

not always there.''

2011-12-11T11:29:00.000+08:00

''The person who feels they can find the answers outside of themselves is looking

in the wrong place because,

if you go into the depths of your heart,

listen to your intuition and not

the 'voice' [ego] in your head you can

and in time find yourself.''

2011-12-10T11:23:00.000+08:00

''The one thing about egoists is that they want to take control of the conversation and won't talk about anybody else because nobody else can get to say anything for them to listen to repeat it later word for word .. but it's still gossip.''

2011-12-06T10:08:00.000+08:00

Just A Thought;

''I was born and have lived the most of my life on a small island in the West called Ireland and there it rained quite abit that locally we called it 'a soft day' because the rain fell like drizzle. Now I live on a bigger island in the East called Borneo and here we have the monsoon season and when the rain falls I can call it 'a hard day' because it rains heavy .. but there are two things I have learned today from both of these experience's. The first is, I will always be an Island Man and the second one is that every drop of rain that falls and irrelevant of where I am,

is in it's right place.''

2011-12-05T09:15:00.003+08:00

''We all need Ego, in a way it helps to motivate us to achieve and survive but 'All Ego' in a man of power or the 'Collective Ego' of a group or country could be the death of us all, it is in this awareness we can be better human beings.''

2011-12-04T12:56:00.000+08:00

''Human beings have destroyed each other through-out history in war, genocide and religious persecution and killing on personal emotions and are more capable of doing so now and in the future than natural disasters that nature will throw at us.''

2011-12-03T11:22:00.009+08:00

''The imagination is the matrix but also the sight into the soul in which all great
things of the spirit are born
that expresses one's own self.''

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2011-12-02T11:15:00.000+08:00

''I stand on my own mentally and physically fighting my own inner devils along with the ones outside of myself.''

2011-12-01T00:38:00.000+08:00

''Yesterdays are memories that can live

on forever with us,

but it depends on what we want
to hold on to.''

2011-11-27T09:52:00.003+08:00

''Creativity

allows

for

PaRaDoX ...
is that sculpture looking at me?.''

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2011-11-26T10:30:00.000+08:00

''Behind every act of kindness

there is always some kind of motive,

be it spiritual or otherwise.''

2011-11-25T10:25:00.000+08:00

''In growing old it is said you become wiser and that maybe true for some but others die before they 'wise up' in how to put it to use.''

2011-11-24T09:28:00.002+08:00

''Nothing lasts but death and death endures all ... it is the equalizer to all things living.''

2011-11-23T11:20:00.003+08:00

''The best way to get attention is by

being quiet.''

2011-11-22T08:52:00.000+08:00

''A time when you can call yourself rich is when you are able to pay off your bills.''

2011-11-21T12:02:00.000+08:00

''Mistakes can only be the result of ignorance

but from mistakes we can learn ... but,

ignorance breeds uncertainty and fear

into people that they can keep repeating

the same mistakes throughout history

and that in itself can show how deep rooted ignorance can get into people ... and,

as human beings we tend to admire

what we don't understand ...

which can also stem from fear of any kind,

the way of ignorance.''

2011-11-20T11:11:00.005+08:00

''We should cherish the diverse cultures in what is now becoming an overcrowded

and selfish world and learn tolerance and respect and then put it into practice for life is too short to carry history's pain into the future.''

2011-11-19T11:17:00.004+08:00

''Self expression is the mirror of the
inner spirit and is another name I can call

'creativity's play in reality'.''

2011-11-18T11:17:00.000+08:00

''Memories are kept alive by thought
and thought is kept alive by memories
and you can in time remember everything
but it can be at the 'wrong time' ..
that the more time you give to your memories
the less time you give to the present.''

2011-11-17T09:59:00.000+08:00

''A woman can turn a boy into a man or a man into a boy.''

2011-11-16T01:42:00.007+08:00

'Go live your life you are free to do that' ...
''That's bullshit, you are free only if you believe you are free and feeling free is in the knowing you are not listening to your ego ..
that little voice in your head that cries out for attention ...
you are free you are free ....
No ... I am free when I live in the present time .... Now...
OK, if you think something like this than maybe you have a chance ... as for me I am all over the place that's why I write this stuff.''

2011-11-15T11:38:00.000+08:00

''Loss is inevitable ...
everything, as you know it, from keys to aging to money to relationships to inheritance to war to dogma to life ... but a greater personal loss can be going through life in knowing and then eventually admitting to yourself that you have been fucked.''

2011-11-14T11:21:00.000+08:00

''Cruelty and fear in the name of a religious belief is motivated by the need for power, which in turn is control which motivates the
madness in the name of religious and ideological beliefs in mass exterminations and genocide for a god or gods that we may have created in our own minds.''

2011-11-13T14:22:00.000+08:00

''Each time that you wake up from sleep or the start of a new day you have the chance to make a new start if you knew what it is that is wrong .. and there is always something wrong as we keep reminding ourselves.''

2011-11-12T12:05:00.000+08:00

''To go through life in the fast lane and trying to pay attention to the small details is like passing an elephant through the

eye of a needle.''

2011-11-11T10:20:00.000+08:00

''The greatest loss of all is not just that of life, but of the 'innocence' of the living ...

that is, in believing what is said by those who ego's do the talking.''

2011-11-10T11:29:00.000+08:00

''To love is to recognize yourself in another human being ...
if you refuse to acknowledge it for
fear of hurt or disappointment
then you as a human being will be empty
and you are at the greater loss.''

2011-11-09T11:44:00.006+08:00

Think about this;
     ''Dictator or king, religious or freethinker, rich or poor, adult or child. Every human being that is born into this energy will at some time of their lives experience suffering of some kind, be it mental or physical, self imposed or imposed by others.
     Suffering has a purpose ... human beings would not evolve as human beings in regarding the ego, for the majority of suffering, but not all, is caused by the ego, but here is the paradox ... suffering is brought on by the identification with form, attachment, but suffering can also erode the identification with form, detachment.
     When you accept suffering consciously, awareness, then and only then there can be an acceleration of the process of suffering and therefore the ego will let go and then you can transcend it.
     Suffer consciously and the ego lets go, detachment, suffer unconsciously and the ego creates more suffering, attachment.''