ARI's EYE : PEACE WITHIN
” We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don’t make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace. Without inner peace it is impossible to achieve world peace, external peace. Weapons themselves do not act. They have not come out of the blue. Man has made them. But even given those weapons, those terrible weapons, they cannot act by themselves. As long as they are left alone in storage they cannot do any harm. A human being must use them. Someone must push the button. Satan, the evil powers, cannot push that button. Human beings must do it.”
—The Dalai Lama, in The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness, edited by Sidney Piburn
from Everyday Mind, edited by Jean Smith, a Tricycle book
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linaji
What a fascinating piece!! glorious infact Ariji!
Aritheeagle replied
Thanks Linaji and there is so much happening these days ….. too much at stake and too little time left for this world to correct its direction.
Only {EACE from within can give comfort to a turbulent time and provide adequate direction and relief from our threats and challenges of the Nuclear Age!
Its scary actually.
~Ari
Olga
Wow! What an order and beauty! God is awesome in His creations!
Aritheeagle replied
Yeah and thisd says it all:
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”
~Anton Chekov
Torfinn Johann...
Great piece of art! Great message too. Well done!
Aritheeagle replied
ThanksJohann and appreciate the visit. It must be cold whereever you are…..
It sure uis here in Canada…
Currently:
-13*C
poupoune
Wise words from a very wise, kind and peaceful Human Being.
Your image is outstanding!!!
Aritheeagle replied
Thank you much and appreciate the endearing comment. We only grow through each other …. through our pits and falls…. through our truth!
Thank you again….
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”
~Dorothy Thompson
Sensiworld
Beautiful !
Aritheeagle replied
Thank you Sylvia…
~Ari
mikequigley
cool piece mq
Aritheeagle replied
Thanks Mike … appreciate the comment!
shallay
Extroadinary work – such a study in symmetry, tone & cool colour. And yet after reading those wise words, I can’t help seeing a ‘stars&stripes’ effect in the petals, and an arsenal of tiny missiles in the centre – an unwelcome conversion!
Aritheeagle replied
You see what you think…. and the world is always bigger than ours…...
I never saw it that way – actually – those stripes for me represented the many ‘zones’ of strife and conflict all over the world and the core of the flower head represented the hope and peace that only we can either allow to flower of can crush forever!
We must not allow the Life Flower to be CVRUSHED then…. and must consciously direct our efforts in creating ONE Voice for the sake of tomorrow…. for the sake of our children!
~Ari
LindaR
beautiful ~ love the colors and the message xx
Aritheeagle replied
Thanks Linda ….
~Ari
Deborah Dillehay
What a beautiful image and wise words, Ari! The microcosm creates the macrocosm, within forms without, as above, so below. This is a very important message for things happening now. Thank you!
Aritheeagle replied
“The reflection that presents itself is depend3nt on how well the mirror has been crafted. Even the tiniest flaw will bring a slight distortion. However imperfect, the reflection will hold every detail of the reality which is shown by it. There is one noticeable difference. It has shrunk a dimension. The reflection in a mirror is two-dimensional. The reality it reflects exists in a space with up and down, right and left, forwards and backwards. The mirror is only able to show forwards and backwards in what we could call the mode of magnitude – large is closer, small is farther away. We can say that in the same way man, as microcosm, reflects the universe, less a dimension. So too does the universe, the macrocosm, reflect God, less a dimension. The mode of reality changes. Even though a dimension is lacking that does not mean that it is missing, it is still present in an analogous form. We can call this change in mode the principle of Analogy. That is why “…the symbol is essentially identified with the thing it symbolises…”
http://blog.beliefnet.com/astrologicalmusings/2007/01/microcosm-macrocosm-and-metaco.html
Sharon Johnstone
Wow…stunning work!!!!!
Aritheeagle replied
Sharon – thanks for this visit. Appreciated much!
~Ari
PrincessVicki
Amazing image and really inspirational words by a very wise man! Love it! x
Aritheeagle replied
Thanks Vicki – I can, like yourself only try my best to share what I believe to be my dearest and most passionate drive – TO FIND INNER PEACE form the conflicts and turmoil of this stage.
Helen Keller says it best:
” I do not want the peace which passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
—Helen Keller
Alan Findlater
excelent work well done
Aritheeagle replied
Thanks Alan… appreciate the comment!
~Ari
WayoftheWarrior
WOW!
Aritheeagle replied
His Brush Strokes define life…....are life
this Universe a grain of His Infinite Realm
we ….... nothing….just nothing..yet..
why then…
why the destruction
the mistrust
the senseless killing
of man by man
beast by man
nature by man
only by man
Thanks Tony….
~Ari
Craig Forhan
Wow, you slam dunked the this one with color and sharpness.
Aritheeagle replied
Thanks Craig ….
The construction of the flower core was too magnificent to miss out on. The only way I could highlight what I was seeing was to play with its color a bit and tweak the sharpness a bit with the favored soft focus that brought out the compo well. Picase although very basic …. does allow some interesting editing maneuvers….. if one is patient.
Thanks Craig.
~Ari
Matt Rhodes
I love this one. Great repetition. When you stare at it for a while…it almost looks like its moving, or optical allusion or something!! Really cool picture! The fact that its a flower, and an an optical allusion!! AMAZING!
Aritheeagle replied
Thanks Matt and appreciate the visit.
Yeah – its pretty whacky and kool!
I always use my own images for creating templates and play around with the countless possibilities that exist …... in terms of turning the energy of that very image from North to South …. or East to West with the least effort. All it requires is an open approach to accepting everything as it exists and ‘is’ and then grabbing its energy with creative over drive!
;-))
Thanks Matt
~Ari
Matt Rhodes
Hmmm…Cool Idea! Making Art…out of Art..!! When i open up photoshop, i usually just correct the levels, and do retouching, maybe change the depth of field…but almost always to something that is simply a more accurate representation of the picture. Cool idea, to sort of make your own picture, from something that you already have. I’ll have to try it out sometime. Thanks Ari. =)
Aritheeagle replied
Hey – thanks and remember – the possibilities of countless perspectives and the energy they genertae is ama zing. Allow yourself the experience …. allow yourself the moment!
;-))