Saturday 29 June 2013

This is Sunday and so please ignore what the computer says. Bless you. I thank you and you are wonderful for being you.



Good day to you all my brothers and sisters. I thank God my problems are so little that they are confined to circumstances which limit the ability to produce this blog to the standard I would wish. My sister is sending me a replacement camera in the post and so that will take a few days. When my son awakes in about two and a half hours I shall see if he knows how to download the photos I took using his mums little borrowed camera. If we are able then you will see below these works, the painting I did yesterday. Though the quality of images may not be as good. I do though thank my ex-wife for the loan of her camera.   

Perhaps I ought to make clear that the insertion of little images of American comic heroes is meant to be an irony on my take of the culture across the atlantic, not any sort of hero worship! 


Todays blog is a work in progress and so you can expect it to continue being updated until it is complete.
For now this me, your bro in Christ, the Buddha and all the saints, Peter saying bfn. 

So now I am back again and its coming up to seven am. I shall share some of what I have been reading and absorbing into my consciousness from a medieval English mystic in the fourteenth century. Firstly I will say to those of us interested in being one in union with God, that I find copying down in notebooks, or typing like this the wise words which can lead one to enlightenment, brings the power in and behind the words to a place deep in our minds and souls. Secondly it makes them our own, as although they were initially conceived and put pen to parchment many hundreds of years ago, once we copy them down once more they become ours afresh!

I ask you first, what is perfection of the human soul, and what are the properties belonging to this perfection? Answering on your behalf, I say that perfection of the human soul is nothing other than a union brought about between it and God in perfect charity. This perfection is so high and pure in its nature, beyond human understanding, that it cannot be known or perceived in itself; but where the properties belonging to it can be truly seen and perceived, there it is likely that its substance abounds. And so, in order to explain why this spiritual exercise is more noble than all others, we need to know what are the properties belonging to perfection.
The properties belonging to perfection, which every perfect soul needs to possess, are virtues. Now, if you will closely examine this work in your soul, and the property and characteristics of each separate virtue, you will find that all virtues are clearly and completely contained within it, without any deflection or corruption of intention. I will not mention any specific virtue here, because that is unnecessary; you can find some mention of them in various other places. For the work in question, rightly understood, is the reverent affection and the fruit separated from the tree that I refer to in your little Epistle on Prayer. This is The Cloud of Unknowing, this is that secret thrust of love in purity of spirit; this is the Ark of the Testament. This is Dionysius`s Theology, his wisdom and his treasure, his bright darkness (this is a term I class as Christian Zen, as well as the following.) and his ignorant knowledge. This is what makes you silent in thought as well as speech. This makes your prayer very short. By this you are taught to forsake and despise the world.
What is more, by this you are taught to forsake and despise yourself, according to Christ`s teaching in the gospel, where he says; `Whoever will come after me, let him forsake himself, let him bear his cross and follow me`. In relation to our present subject, it is as if he meant you to understand: `Whoever will come humbly, not with me but after me, to the bliss of heaven or the height of perfection`. For Christ went ahead by nature, and we come after by grace. 
May my brothers and sisters, the love of God and the fellowship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit be with us all as one, now and always.
Please pass this on, as it then becomes partly yours.
  Your bro in Christ Peter. 
          
 Post Script. Have just awoken at 02.25am by seemingly a gust of wind and my eyes came upon the following. "God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life." So it seems a gust of wind, or only God knows, the Holy Spirit may have awoken me and so before going back to sleep I shall pray Maranatha on the Mala beads. Peace and love to you all and all beings. Peter. Yep and now I know I wanted to go back to sleep as for goodness sake its nearly 3am, yet for goodness sake I had to get back out of bed to share and say the following. 
Infinite intelligence leads and guides us in all our ways. Perfect health is ours and the law of harmony operates in our mind, body and spirit.
 Beauty, peace, love and abundance are ours.
The principle of divine action and right order govern our entire life.
I know this major premise is based on the eternal truths of life and I now feel and believe that my subconscious mind responds to the nature of my conscious mind thinking. 
Good night my brothers and sisters and may God almighty bless you and keep you safe in the love of the Holy Spirit. P 

Saturday and glad to be able to share this blog with you and give a thought to those less fortunate.

Good day my brothers and sisters and welcome to my art and thoughts. Also I will if I am able share some art from others and writing from one other.

Here is the first from another artist.

 
 This above is by Georg Baselitz and is oil on canvas
  1976. Two things I like about it. One is the choice of colours and composition, with the lady upside down.
Secondly its maybe an echo of how I would have liked to have painted in 1976. There is a freedom in this work for me! I may get to be doing more life painting, but I have to feel that its the right time and as yet I have to explore more my abstractions.

 This is by an artist I admire; Tatiana Domazetovich. 
 

So what I am sharing today my beloved brothers and sisters are photos from two separate works now, of mine. Which I do trust you will appreciate. Please share these with others as they are a work of love.







   Okay, I am know going talk about last night and then awaking from a dream this morning at about 5am.  Having last night had my eldest son stop over, we watched the latest superman movie. In it there was a scene where superman was fighting another being from his home planet and they were smashing each other all over the place, through buildings and everything. So maybe this influenced my dream. Three or four `bad` guys (all constructed by my subconscious mind) were trying to take me out and they were not able to hurt me with their blows, yet my punches and kicks had no effect on them either. I am not sure how this resolved itself so we didnt just carry on the struggle, fighting eternally, but I have the feeling it was from letting go and giving in to whatever would be and then the illusion fell away and I awoke!
 Many of our brothers and sisters are still asleep in their belief that they are separate from us and this will make them desperate to cling to things, material and emotional for comfort. Then though as time goes by and these illusions lose their shine, they will be looking for something new. Its like the story of the person, or god condemned to roll the boulder up the hill only to have it roll down again. So now I am sharing some Serenity Affirmations which it is up to you, but I would advise copying out by hand as this helps get them into a deeper part of your mind! Then keep them handy. You may want to leave them by your bed and read them before going to sleep and then upon waking. There will be those us looking at this blog - I am not one of them unfortunately - who do not need to do this exercise or even pray; as they are already totally enlightened beings who have chosen to remain here only to help in the relief of suffering of us less fortunate. My thanks then to them and the following is for those of us yet to transcend our worldly bonds. Hopefully this will help:

I am relaxed.
I am safe.
I am joyful.
I am calm.
I remain calm and composed.
Love is what I am.
I am a gift.
I am grateful for the gift.
I am blessed.
I accept the Divine plan.
The Universe is purposeful.
I am serene.
I acknowledge the good in all.
I am nonjudgmental.
I am caring and sharing.
I am loving.
I am love in action.
I am compassionate.
I am detached from worldly woes.
I recognize the illusion.

I Am Sorry
Please forgive me
I love you
Thank you 


 Peace and love to you all here and may all you encounter be blessed by your presence. My thanks and love for your being here at this moment. Peter.
  

            

Friday 28 June 2013

Fish on Friday. Blessings and Peace to all beings.

Good day to you my brothers and sisters. Its a joy to have more people visiting our site. Now I am not neglecting the single people from countries outside of Europe that are visiting here today; One person from Ukraine (oops,this is in Europe), Canada, India and Australia.( This is of course and I am making an educated guess here, a single person from each of those countries and not one person traveling about logging in wherever they stop!
    Yes there has also been two from Russia and seven from China. Bigger population in China than Russia. Next perhaps in country size is America who bless them are a country divided from us in England by a common language.
Now, I thought it was Socrates who said, `One can see how civilized a country by how it treats its prisoners`; but on a brief scout of the internet there is no confirmation of this fact. 
However, with our society here in the UK often emulating America - wrongly in my view - as the great example of society to emulate, these following statistics bear careful consideration! One has to see this article has not come from an uncredited source. Whoops I seem to have not posted and lost the figures that show America not to be the greatest country in the world when it comes to there criminal justice system. Ah ha it all makes sense further down.
  Do not though entertain the thought that I am unappreciative of the twenty eight people from America to have visited this site today.
Yet of course I am giving thanks for single individuals who have so far today looked in from  the Ukraine and Canada. One would perhaps entertain the thought that allows America to come after England in the visitors today, as I am an artist from the UK!  So my brothers and sisters around this one world, there has been 43people visit from this green and pleasant land of England already this wonderful day. Is that all who visited a person may ask! No, once again for the second day in a run, Germany has been the source of joy with already over five thousand hits. Each one should come to know how if they get something positive from my website, this is partly what makes my existence worthwhile. So my brothers and sisters, without further ado I will share some art with you before getting to the Fish on Friday portion of this blog, which I have yet to pray and be inspired to write. These, as yesterday were kindly photographed by my blessed neighbour, Long Tang. (great name and great man.)  



 Meister Eckhart is a christian who has inspired me, along with Teresa of Avila 



Good and earnest prayer is a golden ladder which reaches up to heaven, and by which man ascends to God.
The man who will pray aright should ask for nothing except what may promote God's honour and glory, his own profit and the advantage of his neighbours. When we ask for temporal things we should always add, if it be God's will and if it be for my soul's health. But when we pray for virtues, we need add no qualification, for these are God's own working.

 So also without further ado is a `peace` from our blessed sister Teresa.
 
 “May today there be peace within.

May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.

May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.

May you be content knowing you are a child of God.

Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.

It is there for each and every one of us.”
― Teresa of Avila.





The man who will pray aright should ask for nothing except what may promote God's honour and glory, his own profit and the advantage of his neighbours. When we ask for temporal things we should always add, if it be God's will and if it be for my soul's health. But when we pray for virtues, we need add no qualification, for these are God's own working.

 Good and earnest prayer is a golden ladder which reaches up to heaven, and by which man ascends to God.

The man who will pray aright should ask for nothing except what may promote God's honour and glory, his own profit and the advantage of his neighbours. When we ask for temporal things we should always add, if it be God's will and if it be for my soul's health. But when we pray for virtues, we need add no qualification, for these are God's own working.




     Entitled; `Within an abstract painting, a mystical holy man prays for the well-being of an abandoned dog, which is blind in one eye. The rest of the world unbeknown to this fact, apart from of course those visiting the blog of formally unknown artist P G Kimble, is still to be enlightened to this wonderful all encompassing love.` 

Wow, I believe this may be the longest title for one of my paintings!




I will pray that if it is soon I can become known as an artist whom people wish to purchase my work, but more than this to listen to me tell my stories of true lives and more then please God hear this prayer from me and any who see this blog and echo it for me. Blessings on all who do or do not, as we are one with your almighty love, our saviour.

For those who know perhaps some arts agent or promoter and maybe they are in Germany, please ask them to make contact with me at 
petgkimb@gmail.com
I do know most artists dont make a good living during their own lifetime, but its as if I am now living my third life, this existence has been so eventful.

  

 Good and earnest prayer is a golden ladder which reaches up to heaven, and by which man ascends to God.

The man who will pray aright should ask for nothing except what may promote God's honour and glory, his own profit and the advantage of his neighbours. When we ask for temporal things we should always add, if it be God's will and if it be for my soul's health. But when we pray for virtues, we need add no qualification, for these are God's own working.


If you look quite way up in this blog you will see the point where I start talking about prisoners and then skew of track. Here is some information I mulled over and whilst not yet ringing alarm bells in my head, is nevertheless making me slightly uneasy about the fact people can perhaps make money by investing in a stake of the industry of human incarceration!  

Here it is, how great is the USA??? 
   A NY Times article states that at 743 prisoners per 100,000 people the US has by far the largest prison incarceration rate in the world. Russia comes in a distant second at 577 per 100,000. We have made prison an industry now invaded by private industry, which will naturally look to maximise profits by cutting back on services to prisoners.


Lets move away from the above topic  

You my brothers and sisters who are joining us in these recent days. I am happy, nay joyfully glad to welcome as new members to this virtual community of nonjudgmental free thinkers. We deserve happiness and success in our lives and just knowing we are here now as it were sort of transcendentally with me typing and you reading. I ask that you pray as I am for our joint enlightenment. If it is as famously stated, that `time and tide wait for no man`, those of us who believe the not only the positive power of prayer, but that joining together enhances the power of love must now come together in a union of like-minded souls joined through the almighty power of the Holy Spirit to pray for the raising of God consciousness within our beings and this global community gathered here.
 

Blessings love and peace to you my brothers and sisters. Know that you are loved and the language of love transcends all things. Please, know that you are loved and pass this on. Your brother in Christ and of St Teresa, Lao Tzu, The Buddha and all the saints, Peter.   

Thursday 27 June 2013

Today I wish to post a little something extra. In homage to `Buster` my german sheperd friend who moved to a bigger home and is missed.


Greetings from sunny Luton on a day where although I miss Buster I am aware that we have to let both ourselves and others move on when the time is right.



I am just going to post this as I have already done my artists blog and yet looking through my computer files came across this. Hoping it will play for those of you who know how much us humans and dogs can enjoy being together.
 Your bro Peter.
  This film was taken a while ago, as Buster had to move to another home after he bit a runner here in Luton. He is doing well with the family he is with. They have other dogs and a field of their own to run about in. My two sons cried when we had to let him go and as for me; yep me too.

P.s. Now its nearly six pm and still there are so many brothers and sisters looking at my site and maybe this blog from Germany. You have touched my heart and I thank you. Bless you. I trust we all come here as children of God transcending earthly man made borders! 

Wednesday 26 June 2013

This is really Thursday too, so ignore `wed` at top.
Good day to all beings, visiting this site or just being. May all know the joy that is selfless love.

    This below is not my painting, but is called `The Redhead` by Cecily Brown. I know next to nothing about this person, but took the image off the `Pictify`site  where I also have art shown. Why I put this on was to show how it is very reminiscent of my own style of painting, although this is oils on canvas.
Also I am showing you this of course to celebrate the creativity of another artist on my site. Good grief, I ought to say, `our site.` We are all one!
It would be sad if I constructed these blogs everyday, but never shared them and in that sense I do give over any ownership of what I patch together here for us!



    The other distinct difference is that a head is shown quite large and also the vague outline of the
     body. Definitely you can see the breasts, which is how we can tell this is of a woman. Though
     of course I we were to get analytical about it it could be a transsexual! We shall not do this for
     now and I will get back to where my train of thought was before writing this. Though one may
     see in my own works, what could be faces and other things - including words - these could be mistaken      or even
     rightly taken for coincidences of the movement of the paint about the paper! Sometimes its more
     likely that I see the ghost of an image and embellish or enhance it!

     Then again at times the shot is so abstract its hard to see anything one would equate with this `real` world.
     The shot below may give to some of us the impression of some sort of waterfall. It does all depend on
     the type of minds that we have. I am sure that there could also be some individuals that a genre of music        is brought to mind!

         These photos below are from what I painted.

      


   I could entitle this shot below quite easily; `traveling quickly alongside emotions in a ballet dancers dream!`

 

    Moving paint about with joy determined to keep thinking to the bare minimum and love uppermost. Being.
     Is this me, you, or us all at some moment in time, towards bottom left, knees to chest and arms up to
     our face! 


What is the perfection of the human soul, and what are the properties that can bring us to this perfection?
First we must abandon any thought or notion of proud intellect. This also applies in not being proud of any humility we have about us. As St Bernard testifies, `Perfect humility sets no limits.` Does this mean humility is not something we can strive towards achieving in its entirety? My brothers and sisters, when I come up with such a question, its not like I am some wise father who long ago worked out the right answer! I haven't even pondered the question and come up with any I would say must most surely be wrong!
Okay I have come up with the first thought and must mull this over for a bit. Ha, and when I say `I` came up with it, that's a bit of a misnomer. It came into my consciousness from the field of all of which I am an intrinsic part of and all is an intrinsic part of me.
The properties we need to possess to attain perfection, which I believe is a realistic goal to be achieved by each and every one of us are virtues. The stumbling blocks are that most people would rather chase illusory goals of material gains. These of course may be fine for many whilst they have security and safety of the human body. Yet their was a very wealthy king of England whom in battle, having been knocked or thrown from his horse, is purported to have shouted, "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse." No one was forthcoming on that occasion.
There is a kingdom I hope to finally reach which the price of my entry has already been secured and the price paid in full. It cost not only the life of a perfect soul, but my surrender of all that is rotten and selfish in my self. This why I can say my old man is dead and I no longer live, yet not I but Christ lives in me.. There are many who don't yet realise that their proclaiming to be different to others or better than some. Even for that matter, aspiring to be as good as others is just stuff and nonsense. When Christ was on the cross, some wretched soul beside him was being executed for some crime he himself had carried out. We don't know that he had been baptised, or confirmed. Surely he didn't know the `Lords prayer`, or Hail Mary`s` Yet Jesus told him, `Today you will be in my fathers house.` Its bits like this that show me that much of all the different religions organisation is not about an eternal loving force I call God! Its about another way to control the masses so the few can mold the world to the way they want it.
In my heart I know there have been and are and will be saints of all different faiths and of no faith. Love and forgiveness is what are for me the prime movers. Even in nature there is a discord often bought about by mankind's irresponsible care-taking of  the environment and this planet, we call our home from home!
So my brothers and sisters, until we are once again in our true home which is united in the presence and being of God, we must strive to live balanced, loving and harmonious lives together here! Know that you are loved and be a blessing to all you encounter. Your Bro Peter.
       Ps. Thank God my neighbour Long Tang has been around. Too late for today's blog, but look forward to some great shots of my art tomorrow, courtesy of his kind work with his camera. Also it would be remiss of me not to say a huge thanks for all my blessed brothers and sisters in Germany being with me here at this blog. You are amazing, as over two hundred of you this morning already. Between 3am and 5am there were in actual fact two hundred and ninety five. Oh and this is compared with two of my own countrymen and one from the USA! Does this go to show that artists and spiritual people are not as appreciated in their own land as in others? As I have said often, I no longer live yet not I but Christ lives in me. So may the love of God almighty, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, be with you now and always. Go in peace and love, spreading the good news.              

Tuesday 25 June 2013

So my brothers and sisters I am posting some photos of how I was when I shaved off my hair. I have lost or misslaid my camera and so we will have to make do without new pictures of my art!

Wednesday and wonderful.
Good day and blessings be upon you, my wonderful brothers and sister, as well as all beings.

I went to the art studio in London yesterday and am pretty sure I didn't take my camera.
Or am I? No, of course I cannot be absolutely sure, but I do have a vague memory of not being able to find it before leaving here.
    On arriving home though I was still not able to locate it. I do have my old camera though, but that takes batteries and I shall have to go and buy some. The newest camera charged through a lead into the computer. The other thing is that the newer one was a better quality (many more pixels!).  But needs must and I shall go and buy some batteries and take photos of my latest art with the old camera.
Hey, I am old enough to remember my first camera which didn't have batteries and used  film. I was on holiday at Butlins, Clacton, here in England and it was the 1960`s!

     
In the meantime I will share 
some thoughts about my 
hair! 


Yep, you cant see it there.

Nope, nor beneath either! 
 

Here it is. O, and its grey.
Or perhaps kinder to say, silver!  
 Grey, silver whats the difference. Well now it is not so.  Since those photos above, I have been growing it again. My eldest son said, "Dad, now you are off the interferon drugs, your hair seems to be going back to its brown colour! The other son who is a year younger, knows that I have been using `Grecian lotion` which brings back the natural hair colour! So he and me thought we will keep the illusion going in the elder ones mind. For now anyway. I still feel a little bit of guilt as the elder boy (Is thirteen still a boy?) feels things very passionately and takes them to heart!  


      Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort,
      of feeling safe with a person; having neither
      to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to
      pour them all out just as they are, chaff and
      grain together, knowing that a faithful hand
      will take and sift them, keep what is worth
      keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness,
      blow the rest away.
                        George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)


     THIS PARTICULAR PERSON
MATTERS
               It is a mistake to think that one makes a friend
               because of his or her qualities, it has nothing to
               do with qualities at all. It is the person that we
               want, not what he does or says, or does not do or
                say, but what he or she is that is eternally
                enough! Who shall explain the extraordinary
                instinct that tells us, perhaps after a single
                meeting, that this or that particular person in
                some mysterious way matters to us? I confess
                that, for myself, I never enter a new company
                without the hope,that I may discover a friend,
                perhaps the friend, sitting there with an
                expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand
                disappointments. People who deal with life
                generously and large-heatedly go on
                multiplying relationships to the end.
                              ARTHUR CHRISTOPER BENSON
I shall leave you for this moment only as we all go about, being the joyful beings we are realizing we can be and are! Loving and kind. Forgiving and giving. Your bro Peter. 
       

Monday 24 June 2013

TUESDAY Just my art and not much else and so if not many visitors today than thats okay. Infact its not a crime its a ryme!!

Good day my brothers and sisters. Those of you  that are artists and those that are not, welcome to photos of the latest art produced through me. So without further ado, from the universe and me to you...









 Thats all for today my brothers and sisters. My art is sometimes a cry from my heart, that says sometimes the love of a God I cannot hold is not enough and I need a human to love, but know that for this present moment it cannot be so. Anyway my sons are happy there is not a special woman in my life. Thats a little consolation, for I do love them loads. God knows though how much love I have is more than enough for them. 
Maybe I should pray a hail Mary.. Okay thats done with the hope that this is not the hour of my death. Yet if it is then so be it.
  Dear lord Jesus, I hope all whom have someone special to love and to love them appreciate what they have!

Blessings and love to all beings. Peter.  

STOP SQUABBLING AND GET WITH THE PROGRAM. CHILDREN ARE DYING FROM LACK OF FOOD THIS VERY DAY AND POLITICIANS CANNOT SAVE THEM!


Brothers and sisters, this is just something I came across which focused my mind on the fact that even the word `religion`on its own can bring up anger and hate from all sorts of people. From those who have had a bad experience as a child. Perhaps been beaten by a nun or an Imam. Or sexually interfered with by some person held in authority by their family/community. These people though are impostors using something which is meant to do good for their own evil purposes. Like policemen that extort money from small business men saying its for extra protection from criminals!   





 When I lived the six years in the Philippines I saw so much good being done by people inspired by love for God. Couples for Christ, Singles for Christ and youth for Christ, to name but three. 

As an artist I like to create from my root being, which is Love. Yet it is not always possible to start from this point, as time can bring circumstances into  this world and our lives, which keep moving us from the awareness of truth, into a state of delusion. I believe I touched on this subject yesterday.

You have I am sure heard the saying money wont buy you love! Have you also heard the witty retort, `No but it will make being miserable more comfortable.`? 

Money is power. That is a reality as far as the material world goes. People with big money control the Newspapers the media and they dont put anything contrary to their own agenda. No, of course its their selfish job to deride and mock all that go against them.  People mock spiritual leaders because they don't want to have them leaving the flock of sheep that go to work to earn money to spend on goods and services that they are made to think they need. War can be a big money maker to those with the factories producing the weapons and uniforms. Arms manufacturers are not, `Not for Profit organisations!` The people who make money from conflicts dont just do it from the making of massacres. They also do it from the rebuilding of the devastation. How much debt did countries accrue due to the first and second world wars? I dont have the answer, but its the sort of thing my sons are learning at school. Or are they?

Conflict resolution during the war the worlds powers are not putting enough money into fighting.
People have been banging on about the war on poverty ever since I was a younster in the sixties and it was I believe a couple of christian  students at Oxford university started it of, but the following is all I could quickly get of the internet.

  
Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations working in approximately 90 countries worldwide to find solutions to poverty and related injustice around the world.[1] In all Oxfam’s actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives. Oxfam works directly with communities and seeks to influence the powerful, to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them. Each organization (Affiliate) works together internationally to achieve a greater impact through collective efforts.
Oxfam was originally founded in Oxford, in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of Quakers, social activists, and Oxford academics; this is now Oxfam Great Britain, still based in Oxford, Oxfordshire. It was one of several local committees formed in support of the National Famine Relief Committee. Their mission was to persuade the British government to allow food relief through the Allied blockade for the starving citizens of Axis occupation of Greece. The first overseas Oxfam was founded in Canada in 1963. The organisation changed its name to its telegraph address, OXFAM, in 1965.

So when I wrote `christian` thats like a big label with people under it who dont follow the way of Jesus Christ, but control lots of people to behave in a way that preserves the status quo of a first world/third world divide. So the heads of the different churches, like the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who dont have to, as it says in The Bible, `walk like jesus did.` In fact I believe the pope has a bullet proof car!
My two people who for me are great examples of how to be in walking in the light of Christ, are not christian. One was Gandi. The other it Thich Nhat Hanh, the veitnamese zen buddhist monk. 
A christian monk wrote a book which I found enlightening, called.; `Christianity and zen` but dont ask me for... Oh, it could have been Thomas Merton. I have gone on long enough without posting and sharing with you my beloved brothers and sisters, photos of my latest art, which you are now the first after me to see. I worked out that God saw it even before me! Do you understand this?

The time is getting on and so I will put on here now a load of photos from one painting done for you all yesterday. I dedicate these to all who forgive and denounce all wrongs and love and strive for all good.
                            As you look down you will see where these came from the one, through me to you. Oh, from the one painting also!

                        
       Quote for today; The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.  Francisco Goya













 Us artists should think less and create more. More artwork, more love and more working towards enlightenment!  Peace and love to you all and please pass this on.  Your bro Peter.
 ps I dont have `McDonalds in common with anyone. I dont have McDonalds. I have Love. So love and blessings to you and all you encounter. Also lastly, but not least. A couple of quotes for us via our sister Viv;


We must become the change we want to see.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”
Pablo Picasso
      

Sunday 23 June 2013



Good day my brothers and sisters.

I dont know where you are,or if you have awakened to such a glorious day as I have here in Luton!
I awoke at six and then went outside to photograph yesterdays artwork for you, in the morning sunlight.
Now, I did of course notice there were less views to the blog yesterday, when I confined to mostly to my artwork. Yet my friends this has to be done occasionally, or one is just pandering to the ego in constructing a blog to attract the most views possible and not to be true to ones ethos as an artistic spiritual being.
There would of course be a good non ego based reason for posting whatever I could on the blog to getting a mass audience. Be it provocative, shocking art and / or writing extremist or horrific articles. Such as ; Assistant film editor in Disney Studios caught having gay sex with outtakes of Bugs Bunny. Daffy Duck hangs himself.

To tell you the truth, I could go down to a paper shop and see whats on the front page selling the newspapers today, but its not worth the effort. I mean to say it must me years since I bought a `news`paper.
 
Here below is an example of what millions of people - I do hope that you guess I would definitely NOT be one of that herd, or should I say, flock of sheep - who will spend ONE POUND on this rubbish.
 
What news do we think we could get from a paper above, that
without it our lives will be sadly lacking?  NONE!!!
 
      Below is an idea of the sort of news I like to awaken to, but you would not find in this exclusionary society where film actors or footballers are more likely to be political leaders, than intellectual.   

Plato a disciple and friend of Socrates was the most illustrious 
figure of the school In fact all that we know about Socrates and 
the conditions of thought about that period are all given to us by 
Plato through his immortal Dialogues. He systematized the various 
 ideas revealed by his master, Socrates. He constructed a philosophical system according to which sense-presented experience is 
entirely different from the world of ultimate ideas which was the 
world of reality. He illustrates this' duality of human knowledge 
by his famous parable of the cave. According to this parable 
human being is but a slave confined inside a cave chained with 
his face towards the wall. Behind him is the opening through 
which all-illuminating sunshine casts shadows of moving objects 
on the walls of the cave. The enchained slave inside the cave is priv- 
ileged to see only the moving shadows which he imagines to be 
the real objects of the world. But once he breaks the chain and 
emerges out of the cave he enters into a world of brilliant light and 
sunshine and comes across the real objects whose shadows he was 
constrained to see all along. Man's entry into the realm of reality 
and realisation of the empty shadow of the sense-presented world 
is considered to be the goal of human culture and civilisation by 
Plato. Instead of moving in the ephemeral shadows of the sense- 
presented world, man ought to live in the world of eternal ideas 
which constitute the scheme of Reality presided over by the three 
fundamental Ideas-Truth, Goodness and Beauty. 
 
The one thing I would like to concentrate our minds on and also for us to bear in mind
is that people like plato understood methods that had been introduced into systems of 
government to control the masses.
 
Just as we can only see a limited section of reality with our eyes and hear a limited
range of sound frequencies with our ears. This should not keep our minds limited to
what those who try quite successfully to control the masses would have us THINK.                                                 
  
Now my brothers and sister, there is no need for me to climb
down from my soap box, I am not on one. I am an artist not a politician.
I will share the latest art produced here for you and I dont ask you to part 
with a Pound or even ten cents. Just to lend me your eyes and awareness!
 




 Please note that the painting above is on its side and my signature/infinity symbol should be at bottom right!






    One little thing I like above is the little specks of yellow ontop of the yellow. Yes the red raining down is more dramatic, but some may miss the yellow as its  lost ontop of itself! Good old yellow, I will miss that dog.
Oh he wasnt my dog, but one from a book and a film.

This reminds me about how humanity can be dulled by this world into narrow bands or fields of consciousness. People here in england and I am guessing this applies in many countries, can follow the soap operas on television and get worked up about them. Its gone as far as actors being hit for what their character has done to another fictitious character in make believe `entertainment`. Is this the opium of the masses. The Prozac of the population.      
 
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Now my brothers and sisters its ever onward into this day, which as always we must focus
most of our attention and minds on now. Thats the now present moment which is the gift
and joy of our very being. Stay focused and if distracted, then come back to the breath!
Leaving you now, in peace and love, your bro Peter.