Expecting the unexpected

There's a saying: "Expect the Unexpected."

It got me thinking. If I expect the unexpected, then does this make the unexpected expected since I expected it?

If this is so, then this saying cancels itself out.  If something unexpected is expected, then it makes the unexpected expected.


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Non-Choice

Even if I choose not to decide, I still have made a choice. So my choosing not to decide is in reality still a decision not to make any decisions. So I still made a decision and still made a choice even if I categorically have chosen and decided no too.

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Visual Candy

These are the videos that are currently on heavy rotation in my youtube playlist. I just love the whole feel of these videos. The visuals totally fit my sensibilities and the emotions that they impart tickle my soul.

Final Distance by Utada Hikaru
This has been my most favorite video for a few years already and no other video has caught my fancy enough to replace it's position.



Dog days are over 2010 version by Florence and the Machine
The beats just make my heart go thump thump.



Perfume by Voice
This is just the cutest video that I've ever seen. Makes me smile everytime I watch it.



Cigarettes will Kill You - Australian version by Ben Lee
Ben Lee gives off that offbeat geek vibe...I can so relate :)




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Namedroppers schnamedroppers phooooew!

I hate it when people namedrop or use other people's names to make it seem that they belong to the crème de la crème.  It just validates that they themselves don't see the merit of their own person.  It shows that they don't think that they are enough and that they need to point out their connection to certain people just to make it seem that they matter.  It's just pitiful.


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Patience!

It's hard to be patient sometimes, but there are just some situations that are totally out of our hands.  There are some events that we have totally no control of whatsoever.  The only thing to do is wait and see what will happen.  There's no point in fussing about it because no matter how much we stress ourselves, the outcome would still be something beyond our influence.


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Nuthin

I'm not the kind of artist that paints trees, waterfalls, rice fields and all that scenery stuff just so that people would like my work.  I don't even like using one medium.  I'm more of an express that emotion in a graphic way in mixed media kind of guy.  I'm more of the "I paint for myself and no one else and I don't care if you like it or hate it."  I'm still sort of part of the "idealistic youth" who live in dreams, only remove the youth part coz I may be young at heart, but I don't think I fall in that category anymore agewise.

I paint like this:

But as time goes by, as I was tought by time and circumstance, I realized that sometimes you have to be practical.  Okay, so it's really un-artist-like to sacrifice art in the name of practicality but in real life, most artists really do starve. 

This is the reason why I didn't choose art to be my cash cow in life, because I don't want to desecrate my art.  I have a day job and only do my art for self satisfaction and not as a means of income.

I don't want to sell out.

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Spirituality

I think the greatest adversary of organized religion is the thinking mind.  But this is not entirely bad because God wouldn't have given us the capacity for reason if he didn't intend for us to use it.  I'm glad people are becoming aware that they could ask questions about their religion, inquire and not just believe because someone said so.  Great faith comes from great belief, and true believing is the fruit of a mind that understands the wisdom behind what they believe in.

I'm glad we are becoming aware that people have different beliefs and try to RESPECT these, otherwise "zealots" would still be burning people on the stake accused of practicing beliefs other than theirs or stoning people to death just because they "sinned".........oh yeah on some parts of the world they still do that.  ON SOME PARTS of the world, yes, but fortunately, a greater majority is starting to become enlightened.

I for myself believe in ONE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE that is the heart of true spirituality, and this is LOVE.  Unconditional Love, that which comes from the desire for everyone's well being.  Love for God (or a Supreme Being, in whatever form as long as This Being is the embodiment of Love), Love for one's neighbor, Love for one's self and Love for all creation.

For me, Religion is not neccessarily synonymous to Spirituality.  Religion is more based on RIGID rules and rituals as opposed to Spirituality, which is more of an expression of one's desire to be with the profound.

Sometimes religion becomes a deterrent to true spirituality because it causes scism, debates, fights and even great wars.  Just look back on mankinds history and you will see wars waged in the name of their respective gods believing that they are the only source of truth. 

Atrocious acts commited being justified by closed minded people thinking that what they do is right.  Usurpation of power and wealth, political machinations, murder and even genocide, these were the themes of the religious wars in the past, and on some degree is what is also happening in some parts of the world today.  All of this in the name of their belief that their religion holds the monopoly of truth. 

I'm wondering what God thinks about all of this.  I don't think that [He-She] is pleased.

I think that God would be more pleased with a sincere heart that Loves, Respects and seeks Peace as opposed to a denomination that thinks that they hold the monopoly of truth and do acts to assert their beliefs which results in harming others.

True spirituality is LOVE LOVE LOVE!

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