PERFECT Fourth Way

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
Peter D. Ouspensky

PERFECT Marley

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds."
Bob Marley

PERFECT Geurbois

Claude Monet on Cafe Geurbois, where the bohemians met on Sundays and Thursdays to inspire each other with discussions that:
"sharpened one's wits, encouraged frank and impartial inquiry, and provided enthusiasm that kept us going for weeks . . . One always came away feeling more involved, more determined, and thinking more
clearly and distinctly."


Terrace of a Cafe in Montmartre
by Vincent Van Gogh

PERFECT Teddy

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
Theodore Roosevelt

PERFECT Just Sayin ...

From the Book of Proverbs comes this prescription: “Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto them that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.” A Sumerian cuneiform tablet of pharmacopoeia dated to about 2100 B.C. is generally cited as the oldest preserved record of medicinal alcohol, although Egyptian papyri may have preceded the tablet. Hippocrates’ therapeutic system featured wines as remedies for almost all known acute or chronic ailments, and the Alexandria School of Medicine supported the medical use of alcohol.
Alcohol in the Western World: A History

PERFECT Reminder

New truths begin as heresies.
Susan Sontag

PERFECT Colossal

The ancient Olmec - who predated the Mayans - were one of the first civilizations in the Americas and the first civilization to build pyramids. They thrived between 1200 and 400 BC and left behind fascinating artifacts, like the colossal heads.

PERFECT Isak

Some people tell me that the capacity for dreaming belongs to childhood and early youth, and that as your faculties of seeing and hearing ebb away your talent for dreaming will go with them. My own experience tells me that it is the other way. I dream today more than I ever did as a child or a young girl, and in my present dreams things stand out more clearly than ever, and more to be wondered at.
Isak Dinesen
Shadows on the Grass

PERFECT Attitude

Yes, it's hot. Yes, it's summer.
And, yes it's just a season away from autumn.
Toast every night if necessary.
Defy the heat!

PERFECT Isis

Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings a tune without words
And never stops at all.

And sweetest, in the gale, is heard
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That keeps so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea
Yet, never, in extremity
It ask a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson

Isis, the duck