It was realized by the ancients that the closest thing to God that man could possibly conceive was the great Sun of our solar system. This great, most holy being was regarded by them as a Living Intelligence that was selflessly giving its every ethereal breath into the cosmos to assist countless life streams in their journey through evolution.

The OM or AUM represents the three qualities inherent in the Cosmic Vibration.

A - represents Creation
U - represents Preservation
M - represents Transmutation

These expressions of energy were symbolized in Vedic works as the triune Deities:

Brahma - Creation
Vishnu - Preservation
Siva - Transmutation

Now, this mantra when expressed through the human vocal system constitutes the generalized symbol of all other sounds. All articulated sounds - that is to say all words are produced in the space of the mouth and throat.

The larynx and the palate are used as sounding boards. When you pronounce - A; no part of the tongue or palate is touched. When you pronounce - U; the sound rolls from the very root to the end of the sounding board of the mouth. M - is the last sound which is produced by closing the two lips.

Thus, when properly pronounced, AUM represents the entire phenomena of sound production! Because of this it is regarded as the mother of all mantras and indeed all possible words.

The symbol of OM
Courtesy: www.omsakthi.org

Just as the sound of OM represents the four states of Brahman (absolute reality), the symbol OM written in Sanskrit also represents everything.

The material world of the waking state is symbolized by the large lower curve. The deep sleep state is represented by the upper left curve. The dream state, lying between the waking state below and the deep sleep state above, emanates from the confluence of the two. The point and semicircle are separate from the rest and rule the whole. The point represents the turiya state of absolute consciousness. The open semicircle is symbolic of the infinite and the fact that the meaning of the point can not be grasped if one limits oneself to finite thinking.

Below are my own creation of digital wallpapers for Hindu symbol OM. These again are created with Adobe Photoshop in 1024x768 dimension with quotes in each image. Click on image to enlarge

	Quote : "N/A"
	Quote : "The Beginning is the End"
	Quote : All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God
	Quote : Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer
	Quote : If you do not understand my silence, you will not understand my words
	Quote : .....and so I went silent.
	Quote : Welcome to the God
	Quote : Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take; but by the moments that take our breath away....
	Quote : How did it get so late so soon? It's night before, it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness, how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon??????
	Quote : The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
	Quote : Let your soul control your destiny.
	Quote : Arrows of heaven, spears of earth...
	Quote : What is life for? To die? To kill myself at once? No, I am afraid. To wait for death until it comes? I fear that even more. Then I must live. But what for? In order to die? And I could not escape from the circle.
	Quote : In spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvestmoon; in summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.
	Quote : When the student is ready, the master appears. ~ Buddhist Proverb.

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Most of the time when I create "Digital Art", it is a desktop wallpaper with a quotable quote. Followings are few of wallpapers I created using different versions of Adobe Photoshop. All images are of 1024 x 768 dimensions.

	Click to Enlarge Quote : "Know love, know happiness. No love, no happiness."
	Click to Enlarge Quote : "Follow the trail of your dreams, not the path of others' expectations."
	Click to Enlarge Quote : N/A
	Click to Enlarge Quote : N/A

In my next post, I will share my creation of spiritual wallpapers based on Hindu Symbol "OM" with some of best inspirational/spiritual quotations.

I gradually came to understand that I needed to feel strong and powerful and that this is a universal need we all share, but too often it gets squelched. As human beings we need to express our power, which is our ability to create the reality we want to experience. We need to feel strong. Weakness does not become us.

We are here to shine, not to cower in fear. If we are to achieve greatness, we must abandon the wimpy goal of security. Courage, not security, must be our friend and guide on this human journey.

We owe it to ourselves to "create the reality [that] we want to experience." Now, if I could only figure out a way to make it happen...

Unless good people stand up to be heard, then fear and cruelty will always dominate the world. This is a song that talks about that.

Yusuf Islam

Financial maneuvering is a form of endeavor favorable to old men: The financial brain, unlike brains adept in various other areas—for example, mathematics, physics, chess, and, quite possibly, armed bank robbery—apparently deteriorates very little, if at all, with passage of time, even in the eighth and ninth decades of life.

-- John Brooks, "Spanish Privateer", 1978

After getting self-realisaiton... we start to engage in a very subtle battle between the head and the heart, or we can say the ego and the spirit. Up until the moment we gain our self-relisaiton we will have been under the complete "control" of our ego; we have made decisions based on our desires and wants, we have experienced emotional crests and troughs, we have suppressed our true selves beneath an unconscious set of accumulated baggage which has ruled our lives.

How many of us have ignored the warning signs of a relationships which was clearly not good for us, but whoch filled some other need - usually fear or loneliness? How many have accepted situations which we truly did not enjoy, want or need, simply to maintain our popularity or status with friends and family? Who hasn't acted impetuously and stupidly and not regreted it afterwards? These are all signs of a perfectly normal lifestyle, but one that has been governed by the ego and superego in us. A life of compromise governed by our weakness. Even when we thought we were acting from the heart!

Now suddenly, after self-realisation, we recognise the spirit inside ourselves for what it is, our true guide. The ego suddenly has to operate alongside our enlightened spiritual attention, and so no longer maintains sole control of our actions and thoughts. For many of us, this fundamental spiritual shift is a traumatic change which doesn't sit well with our mental view of who we are. We may not realise that, but our ego finds it difficult to let go. It is a conditioned response, driven by a lifetime of its influence; wanting, planning, thinking and taking actions. Suddenly it is sidelined.

From “Meditation” by Nigel Powell

Other quotes from Nigel Powell:

A right sided personality

A left sided personality

Western people have the lowest self esteem?

The mind games or the myth of self-improvement

Spirituality on sale

3 questions about YOUR spiritual practice

The Ego and the Super Ego

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

- Ted Kennedy

There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed. (27 September 2002)

- Ted Kennedy

... to the highways and byways of this country and to the senior citizen centers and nursing homes where the senior citizens gather.

- Ted Kennedy

John Kerry was the big winner in Iowa. Ted Kennedy introduced Kerry as the 'comeback kid.' That used to be Bill Clinton's name - because every time he would come back to a city, he would find out if he had a kid or not.

- Jay Leno

We will continue this battle here in the United States Senate and in the course of the elections, ... I'm absolutely sure that at the end of the day we will preserve the Medicare system ... and we will get to the day when we have a real prescription drug program.

- Ted Kennedy

I am extremely disappointed that [the president] has proposed this relief using such a politically charged approach. This is not time for a partisan political debate on vouchers.

- Ted Kennedy

When the word gets out that Dean isn't liberal - and in fact is quite conservative - on fiscal issues, he'll pick up more McCain support. On fiscal issues, he's far to the right of Ted Kennedy.

- Jonathan Alter

The war in Iraq itself has not made America safer and has not made the world safer.

- Ted Kennedy

I certainly hope the administration's long-awaited re-involvement in this fundamental debate is genuine, and not because of election year conversion.”

- Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy is endorsing John Kerry and I'm wondering, do you really want the endorsement of a guy with a Bloody Mary mustache?

- David Letterman - David Letterman Quotes

This legislation removes the unfair barriers that currently hinder the ability of battered immigrants to escape domestic violence safely and prosecute their abusers.

- Ted Kennedy

This disaster reminds us that we are all part of the American family and we have a responsibility to help members of that family when they are in need,

- Ted Kennedy

If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by flag burning, what will we say the next time someone is offended by some other minority view, or by some other person's exercise of the freedom the Constitution is supposed to protect?

- Ted Kennedy

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

- Ted Kennedy

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

- Ted Kennedy

The President's handling of the war has been a toxic mix of ignorance, arrogance, and stubborn ideology. No amount of Presidential rhetoric or preposterous campaign spin can conceal the truth about the steady downward spiral in our national security since President Bush made the decision to go to war in Iraq.

- Ted Kennedy

في كل لحظة أكلمك صمتًا.. أتسمعني؟

لم أتوقف عن الحديث معك... أنصت

إنما صرت أتكلم بلغة أخرى.. أكثر فصاحة

ألف وردة.. و وردة

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
~Author : John Madden Inspirational Sayings

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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
~Author : Ernest Hemingway Nice Quotes

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.
~Author : Brenda Ueland Great Sayings

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.
~Author : Carl Sandburg Meaningful Sayings

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
~Author : Norman Vincent Peale Wise Quotes

A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.
~Author : William Franklin Billy Graham Motivational Sayings

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.
~Author : Charles Haddon Spurgeon Great Sayings

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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
~Author : Robert Benchley Meaningful Sayings

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
~Author : Dale Carnegie Wise Quotes

We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
~Author : Orrin Hatch Motivational Sayings

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.
~Author : Lord Melbourne Famous Quotes

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
~Author : Colette Inspirational Sayings

I was attracted too to the in-between position of the writer. More exactly, I was after the suspended state that comes with the act of writing: not happy, not sad; uncertain of the next turn, yet not lost; here, but really there, the there of an unmapped geography...

The elusive pleasure to be found in writing (and only in it, not the before of anticipation, not the after of accomplishment) is in following the drift, inkling your way toward meaning. (126)

I agree: not the before, not the after, the in.

And yesterday, walking to the train and having one of those imaginary conversations that I often do with those who populate my head, I said (internally and not out loud), "Didn't you know that I am secretly a detective?"

And while I'm not actually a detective (yet how would you know?), I am when I'm writing.

___

Hampl, Patricia. "Other People's Secrets." The Business of Memory: The Art of Remembering in an Age of Forgetting, ed. Charles Baxter. St. Paul, MN, Graywolf Press: 1999. 116-131.

P.S. Thank you to Lowry Pei for recommending the essay, which is interesting in many ways.

-- Christopher Marlowe (1564-93), English playwright and poet in his Tamburlaine the Great (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7

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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
~Author : H L Hunt Inspirational Sayings

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
~Author : Abdul Baha Paris Talks p 15 Nice Quotes

Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
~Author : Bible Psalm 23 New Testament Great Sayings

ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Meaningful Sayings

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
~Author : Phillips Brooks Wise Quotes

You think a man is a man cause he wears team colors and guzzles beer in front of the tube Can't you see, boys, the sands of time are dribbling through the hourglass
~Author : Robin Green Motivational Sayings

If a man does his best, what else is there
~Author : George Smith Patton Jr Famous Quotes

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
~Author : Michelangelo Buonarroti Inspirational Sayings

Of two evils we must always choose the least.
~Author : Thomas a Kempis Motivational Sayings

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
~Author : Plato Dialogues Apology Famous Quotes

The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
~Author : Albertano of Brescia Liber Consolationis Inspirational Sayings

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
~Author : Quentin Crisp Nice Quotes

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
~Author : Andre Gide Great Sayings

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
~Author : Thomas Mann Meaningful Sayings

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
~Author : Maxim Gorky Wise Quotes

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
~Author : Jules Renard Motivational Sayings

Sometime you want to run away
Ain’t got the patience for the pain
And if you don’t believe it look into your heart,
The beat goes on

I hope you never ever feel alone... I'm here. I'll be here and I'll stand up with you. My heart and my prayers are with you and your family. <3

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

- Dan Quayle, former Vice President

Tenderness and Rot

I don't understand how I can be so unimportant.  I want to believe that I deserve a chance, it is the rest of the world that seems to tell me I do not. 

I know a lot of people here complain about weights and numbers and sizes and calories and foods and spoiler this and spoiler that but honestly those things do not trigger me at all.

The unequal distribution of love is my one and only trigger.  Always has been and always will be.  I don't care if you post that you weigh 22 pounds.  I don't care if you shop in the infant section.  I don't care if you've eaten nothing but celery for 19 months.  What bothers me is when someone cares about you, or is willing to help you, or when you have an opportunity and squander it, when you get some form of love and act like it is nothing worth having. 

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If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze.
~Author : St Catherine of Sienna Inspirational Sayings

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.
~Author : Claiborne Pell Nice Quotes

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
~Author : Virgil Garnett Thomson Great Sayings

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
~Author : William Shakespeare Meaningful Sayings

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~Author : Antoine de SaintExupery Wise Quotes

Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools.
~Author : Truman Capote Motivational Sayings

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Famous Quotes

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
~Author : Richard Milhous Nixon Inspirational Sayings

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Nice Quotes

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Great Sayings

You are right on target when you say that mad scientists have a total disregard for the wellbeing of others. We don't want to spread evil we just see no point in bothering to spread good.
~Author : Richard M Mathews Great Sayings

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
~Author : Jewish Proverb Meaningful Sayings

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
~Author : Albert Einstein Out of My Later Years Wise Quotes

Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive.
~Author : Sir Walter Scott Marmion Motivational Sayings

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
~Author : James Howell Famous Quotes

Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
~Author : Coleman Cox Inspirational Sayings

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
~Author : Meister Eckhart Nice Quotes

For those who love it, cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
~Author : Craig Claiborne Inspirational Sayings

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
~Author : Daniel Boone Nice Quotes

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
~Author : Bill Watterson Great Sayings

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Meaningful Sayings

Cynics are made, not born.
~Author : Max Wise Quotes

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
~Author : Alex Carey Motivational Sayings

Many, if not all, of my presidential opponents are certifiable idiots.
~Author : Miriam Defensor Santiago The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1993 Famous Quotes

But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
~Author : William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice Act II Scene 6 Inspirational Sayings

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
~Author : Mario Andretti Great Sayings

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
~Author : Plautus Meaningful Sayings

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
~Author : Dorothy Parker Wise Quotes

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
~Author : George Wald Motivational Sayings

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
~Author : Juvenal Famous Quotes

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
~Author : Tori Amos Inspirational Sayings

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.
~Author : Anthony Robbins Nice Quotes

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.
~Author : Eugene Lam Inspirational Sayings

The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fear
~Author : Unknown Nice Quotes

We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
~Author : Ted W Engstrom Great Sayings

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
~Author : Anonymous Meaningful Sayings

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.
~Author : Gary Collins Wise Quotes

If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds.
~Author : Hindu Spiritual Motivational Sayings

I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia.
~Author : Democritus Famous Quotes

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
~Author : Sydney Harris Inspirational Sayings