You only live twice

[Doreen Peri]

If it's your first time, don't worry about
screwing up. You've got another chance.
But if it's your second, you'd better do it right.
Then again if you screw up and
it's the second, look at it this way –
You won't have to do it again
so what does it matter?

Keep this in mind when
planning your funeral.

[goldenmyst]

Excellent advice. I'll definitely keep it in mind.

John

[Doreen Peri]

Thank you, John, for paying attention. I wasn't paying attention last time. Um, I mean, I plan on paying attention next time also.

[mnaz]

I'm pretty sure it's my first time.
Then again, I'll never know for sure,
until I'm sure it's my first time next time,
until I realize I'll never know for sure..

[panta rhei]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/panta/2252 ... 0296/">“If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.” ~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being</a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/panta/2252687045/" title="“If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.” ~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by panta rhei., on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/225 ... 89c6_m.jpg" width="165" height="240" alt="“If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.” ~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being"></a>

[stilltrucking]

interesting quote and link thank you panta
and also for the collage.

surfing the link I found so many gems, but this one popped out at me. I think I am becoming some sort of quantum mystic in my geezer days.

The world is an eternal process of coming to be and passing away, where origin and end of the process seem to become fleeting vanishing points.
When there is no final point, no destination, eventually every combination of matter and energy will be realized and repeated and infinite number of times - an escheresque return, a neverending groundhog day.

If a past event is experienced as a future one, it is recognized as something we already know, as something we have experienced before, and therefore, as a repetition.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/panta/2252 ... 544970296/

I will definetly keep it in mind Doreen
thanks for the starting this thread
I can almost remember the future will have been

I must have not drank deeply enough from the river LETHE

[Artguy]

I feel like a cat with 9 lives and I'm using up my 11th...

[constantine]

sound advice from unsound minds! you are too much, doreen.

[Doreen Peri]

mnaz - I was hoping you'd know so you could tell me how to figure it out. Drat.

panta - great piece of art! love the wisdom you

'truckin - "fleeting vanishing points" ... very cool.. enjoyed the quote

artguy - you're a cool cat ... i bet you get 15

dino - too much of nothin' can't be bad, right? sounds like a blues song

[Perdida]

"live and let live"

trific Doreen

[stilltrucking]

DP wrote:

'truckin - "fleeting vanishing points" ... very cool.. enjoyed the quote

I think that quote is from panta rhei, did you check out the link on photobucket, you ought to take a minute or two and check it out. The writing is astonishing a collage of quotes and her writing, the collage I wish I could get a biger picture of that.

here is the link and another bit from it

Une fois pour toutes", Deleuze says, "The paradoxicality of true repetition is that 'once' stands for 'all'".

Einmal ist alles. Once is all.

Once is what we experience, right now. Once is the moment. Each moment arises and perishes, and the perishing of a moment allows the next moment to arise. For the moment, there is no end. The perishing of a moment is not a final state. Moments do not end in time because they allow other moments to arise.

"The moment is immortal in which I produce return. For the sake of this moment I bear return."
(Nietzsche's Notebooks)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/panta/2252 ... 544970296/