Category Archives: PICTURE POEMS

Picture Poems a poems written for, and pasted on, pictures, paintings or graphic art. The poem describes or emulated the picture in verse.

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SELF-DISCIPLINE

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SELF-DECIPLINE

SELF-DISCIPLINE:

A decision and resolve to control your own actions, behavior, opinions, emotions, body, environment, and everything that influences you, toward accomplishing an objective that you choose.

Your decision must be renewed in every moment of every hour. The control required is a relentless pursuit of perfection, as well as brutal and unyielding concentration — regardless of any barrier or opponent.

The ability to decide, control, concentrate and persist is your assurance of success.

~ Lawrence R. Spencer ~

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ETERNAL NOW

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ETERNAL NOW

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest but left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.

Living on the West Coast, Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He also explored human consciousness, in the essay “The New Alchemy” (1958), and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962).