No Need to be Upset

An image from Portfolio 1 by Matthew Reamer

A Buddhist saying:

If you can do something to change the circumstances, why be upset about it?
And if you cannot do anything to change the circumstances, why be upset about it?

Buddhist idea

Suffering is the difference between the way things are, and the way we want them to be.

Universal Shapes and Forms

There are "universal shapes to which everyone is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond." ~ Henry Moore

Aphorism 2

Bruce Davidson, "Untitled" 1980

'It's better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life' - Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution

Aphorism 3

artwork by Idiots

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.” - Lester Bangs

Aphorism

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
- Emily Dickinson


Sergey Chilik