“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."

As Gandhi Said

Humanity’s resort to violence
To settle ego’s conflicts makes no sense,
For everything we claim to be humane
Bids us to be compassionate and sane:

To love our neighbors as we love ourselves
And stash our grievances on basement shelves
Once we’ve resolved our conflicts peacefully
With justice, honor, truth and equity.

That’s our ideal, proclaimed by saints and sages
In wisdom texts and scriptures through the ages,
And yet in all this time we’ve still not learned
The arts of peace for which we’ve deeply yearned.

Only a peaceful Spirit saves the day:
“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."

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Abstract art - Affirm divine calmness and peace

Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

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You are the morning star and the sun, you are a friend

You are the morning star and the sun, you are a friend, a loving human, am lucky to know the surface of, and I am longing for each day where you are in this world.

I am embracing you under my wings, with kindness I cherished you, never lost in myself within the butterflies’ flight, where nobody reaches within.

Your loving heart is touching my soul’s surface, worth more than the flight to heaven and back, you are so helpful and honest, with dignity and pride in your attitude.

So willingly giving a helping hand, so graceful so full of charm, and such a beautiful personality full of unconditional love, your warm soul and your compassion, never neglected, never taken for granted, you must have been from an angel sent.

So understanding and full of life, you give of yourself, beyond you are a mystery, like the dust in the wind, a fragment of some unspoken words, just whispered within.

Only the true seeker will see this wisdom that is hidden behind the shell beyond the surface of the shadow in the deep of the soul, the insight who reflects the inner self towards eternity.

Never told, never said, the faithful friendship is wherever you set your foot; you make a footprint in my heart. Just understood and accepted indeed, we don’t need any words to say towards the illusion of the hearts honesty.

Those eyes speaks, what the mirror reflects, the truth in the pupil when you have not said a word, just how you gaze and close your sheltered self, from the world who is so cruel and full of humans selfishness and madness.

You never judge, not even when you lost all in your life, you was the victim you was a child, but your soul is shattered, with scar, your soul is suffering from the bleeding hearth.

You was a student of life, lessons to live, and lessons to be learned, but for some on this earth plane the tasks can be to much, and when the sun is down, and the moon is up, your silent ponder over past life’s happening, not how life was meant to be lived, but how you was meant to survive within this life’s illusions of the good and the bad in humans action.

Like you, my heart, the moons awaken the awareness in the shadowed deep; I wish the world could be full of so much kindness you seek, so unique, like the sky in the heaven, sometimes colourful, sometimes blue, let it be true.  .

The wisdom you have, Collection of thoughts is within you. Like thousand smile on your face.

Do you realize how special you are?

writing & art By Jane Monica Tvedt

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Angels are spirits......painting

Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.  -- St. Augustine
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Poem If & painting

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you

But make allowance for their doubting too,

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,

If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much,

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

~~ By Rudyard Kipling

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Live by Faith - One day at a time.

Faith is the light that guides you through the darkness.  

 

Miracles happen every day.

 

Live by Faith - One day at a time. 

  

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Time is priceless

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Buddha under the tree - painting - words of silence

Mind means words; self means silence. Mind is nothing but all the words that you have accumulated; silence is that which has always been with you, it is not an accumulation. That is the meaning of self. It is your intrinsic quality. On the background of silence you go on accumulating words, and the words in total are known as the mind. Silence is meditation. It is a question of changing the gestalt, shifting the attention from words into silence -- which is always there. - Osho
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Have I told you lately that I love you.

Have I told you lately that I love you,
that you're the best thing in my life,
you're the reason for my every smile
and the laughter in my soul,
you're every reason in my world.

Have I told you lately that I love you,
that you're like the sunshine on my face
after a long and hard storm just hit,
you're the reason why I can laugh again,
you're all the beauty in the world.

Have I told you lately that I love you,
that you're the most important thing to me,
the person I love the most,
you're what makes everything else worth it,
you're the meaning of joy to me.

Have I told you lately that I love you
and that I love you more every day,
that you're a miracle in my eyes
and an angel sent down from heaven,
that you take my breath away.

Have I told you lately that I love you,
that you're more amazing with every hour,
you are the solution to every problem
and the gentle voice of reason
when my world is upside down.

Have I told you lately that I love you,
that I'd be completely lost without you,
you're the breath I need to live
and a fresh clean spring breeze
chasing away the chill of life.

Have I told you lately that I love you,
that you're the strength that keeps me going
and the answer to every prayer,
when I fall down on my knees
you're what helps me stand again.

Have I told you lately that I love you,
that you're everything I've ever wanted,
you amaze me more everyday,
that I'm proud to be able to say that you're mine,
that with you is where I belong.

Have I told you lately that I love you.

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Expressionism - Silence - Maria Mena: ‘Mitt Lille Land - Lyrics - 22/7

Norwegian lyrics….

Mitt lille land
Et lite sted, en håndfull fred
slengt ut blant vidder og fjord

Mitt lille land
Der høye fjell står plantet
mellom hus og mennesker og ord
Og der stillhet og drømmer gror
Som et ekko i karrig jord

Mitt lille land
Der havet stryker mildt og mykt
som kjærtegn fra kyst til kyst

Mitt lille land
Der stjerner glir forbi
og blir et landskap når det blir lyst
mens natten står blek og tyst

Mitt lille land
Et lite sted en håndfull fred
slengt ut blant vidder og fjord

Mitt lille land
Der høye fjell står plantet
mellom hus og mennesker og ord
Og der stillhet og drømmer gror
Som et ekko i karrig jord

English translation…

My little country
A little place, a handful of peace
thrown out among mountain plateau and fjords

My little country
Where high mountains are planted
among houses, people and words
Where silence and dreams grow
Like an echo in barren earth

My little country
Where the sea pats mild and soft
like it’s caressing from coast to coast

My little country
Where stars glide by
and becomes landscapes when it gets lighter
while the night stands there – bleak and silent

My little country
A little place, a handful of peace
thrown out among mountain plateau and fjords

My little country
Where high mountains are planted
among houses, people and words
Where silence and dreams grow
Like an echo in barren earth

Maria Mena

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Expressionism - I walked a mile....

I walked a mile with Pleasure.
She chattered all the way,
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And ne'er a word said she;
But oh, the things
I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me!
- Robert Browning
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Expressionism - Silent walk....there is a sacredness in tears.......

There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness,
but of power.
They speak more eloquently
than 10,000 tongues.
They are the messengers
of overwhelming grief,
of deep contrition,
and of unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving


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Expressionism - Silent thoughts - Let freedom be stronger than fear - 22/7

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

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Expressionism - Sadness - Let freedom be stronger than fear - 22/7

 Sadness

Expressionism in art, Art for freedom, The right to speak, show emotion, humanity, hope, faith, peace, do not be silent about what is important, care, show compassion, expression of love, emotion, oneness, fellow human, kindness

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Expressionism - Mourning - Let freedom be stronger than fear - 22/7

 "Mourning"

Expressionism in art, Art for freedom, The right to speak, show emotion, humanity, hope, faith, peace, do not be silent about what is important, care, show compassion, expression of love, emotion, oneness, fellow human, kindness

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Expressionism - Hope - Let freedom be stronger than fear - 22/7

 "Hope"

Expressionism in art, Art for freedom, The right to speak, show emotion, humanity, hope, faith, peace, do not be silent about what is important, care, show compassion, expression of love, emotion, oneness, fellow human, kindness
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Expressionism - A mothers prayers - Let freedom be stronger than fear - 22/7

 " A mothers prayers"


Expressionism in art, Art for freedom, The right to speak, show emotion, humanity, hope, faith, peace, do not be silent about what is important, care, show compassion, expression of love, emotion, oneness, fellow human, kindness

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Expressionism - Compassion & Love - Let freedom be stronger than fear - 22/7

Expressionism in art, Art for freedom, The right to speak, show emotion, humanity, hope, faith, peace, do not be silent about what is important, care, show compassion, expression of love, emotion, oneness, fellow human, kindness


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Expressionism - Thoughts - Let freedom be stronger than fear - 22/7

Expressionism in art, Art for freedom, The right to speak, show emotion, humanity, hope, faith, peace, do not be silent about what is important, care, show compassion, expression of love, emotion, oneness, fellow human, kindness

" Sometimes the only we can do is to be present for those one who is suffering, show Love and copassion, be a fellow man"

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Expressionism - Let freedom be stronger than fear - 22/7

Expressionism in art, Art for freedom, The right to speak, show emotion, humanity, hope, faith, peace, do not be silent about what is important, care, show compassion, expression of love, emotion, oneness, fellow human, kindness

" Sometimes, there is no word that can express the emotion of what is happening in our life.  My heart is within the whole  humanity, and for all of us who has been effected by the  tradegy in Utøya. Spend time in caring of Loved ones, friends, people and to be a fellow man"

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