Emily Carmen:
CLASS OF 1975
Lexington High SchoolClass of 1975
Lexington, MA
Emily's Story
Emily attended Lexington High School, Bennington College,
(BA: Literature and Languages) and Lesley University, (MA: Psychology)
Special skills include working with people who suffer from PTSD.
She is a published poet, artist and lives each day thankful for the journey.
One of Emily's favorite quotes is:"When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about . I've no fears making changes for the painting has a life of its own. -Jackson Pollock
I dream of a better world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.
-Anon
To always say what is, and by that create good for all living beings; that is the practice of truthfulness.
-Yoga Yajnavalkya 1.53
C'est ce que je fais qui m'apprend ce que je cherche.
- Pierre Soulages
Sé el cambio que quieres ver en este mundo.
-ejc
Lo que no te mata te hace más fuerte.
-Anon
No poner la otra mejilla.
-Anon
Your body is away from me
But there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
From this window, like the moon
I keep sending news secretly.
-Rumi
I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom.Let me end my life free. When I am dead let this be said of me: He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty.
-Gustav Courbet
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
-Eric Hoffer
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
— Carl Jung
Autre particularité; je fais danser les éléphants.
-ejc
The ugliest truth, in the end, is always better than the prettiest lie.
-Harlan Coben
How many of us have the courage to tell the truth with love and respect instead of avoiding a potential confrontation with a lie
-ejc
Light can draw space and fill it with meaning; it can be interpreted as a symbol, a stimulus, a gauge of courses, and of presence. Light is magic but does not exist without its shadow.
-ejc
On Light in Painting
Credere è molto monotono, il dubbio è profondamente appassionante=
To believe is monotonous, to doubt is profoundly passionate.
-Oscar Wilde
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, ...Expand for more
for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
— T.S. Eliot
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
-Henry David Thoreau
(addendum)
It's what you feel
-ejc
Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am, in some way, eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
-Bob Marley
Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got.
- Janis Joplin
Live the moment with intensity and totality, with as much joy as possible, with as much love as possible, with no fear, no guilt. This existence is yours and this moment is a gift - don't let it go to waste.
- Osho
Never try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time, and it annoys the pig.
-Anon
You believe the woman is a doormat. I believe woman is the door to God. You believe woman is the chick and I believe she is the eagle. Her sway and her grace is keeping the earth in its own place.
-Yogi Bhajan, August 1, 1984
Le bonheur ne vaut que s'il est partagé.
-Chris Mc Candless
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Khalil Gibran
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me, and be my friend.
-Albert Camus
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-Anon
Where I create, there I am.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. It is the spirit that leads the world and not intelligence.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
― Max Lucado".
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