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@@ -43000,4 +43000,29 @@ but the other dancers looked askance,
 and asked "can this chick actually dance?",
 shania wasn't so much dancin' as berzerkin'!
   -- fred t. hamster
+~
+    All art is composed of subtle and gross elements.  There is no way for
+artists to express without elements.  When people use expressions such as hot-
+headed, cold-hearted, dry-humored, or all wet, it shows that they naturally
+connect subtle element temperaments with gross element expressions.  But
+artists must go beyond outwardly expressing the elements in an obvious way in
+order to gain experience with the inner subtle elements, which are the source
+of the outer gross elements.  Then they can make art which reflects what
+people need.
+    According to the Buddhist point of view, an artist’s intention is
+compassion.  Buddhist artists create in order to make a link with other beings
+through their inner pure elements, and to transform their outer ordinary gross
+elements into enlightenment by means of that connection.   
+  --  Thinley Norbu, from "Magic Dance: The Display of the Self-Nature of the
+      Five Wisdom Dakinis", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+Never admit defeat.  Just move the front.
+  -- fred t. hamster
+~
+down came eddy from his heady,
+where he dwells often unsteady,
+you see he gets so high,
+mind expanded to sky;
+real world grokking just not ready.
+  -- fred t. hamster