SAYINGS OF THE SAGES - GAUGUIN

Eugene Henri Gauguin 1848 - 1903, A French painter and writer
who also worked with wood carvings, using local people as his
subjects. In 1891 he settled in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands.

"The soul constitutes the generating center of all its organisms,
the pivot around which everything gravitates. When the organism
breakes up, the soul survives to continue its metamorphosis. Some
say no one has seen a soul, forgetting that neither has anyone seen
an atom of matter or air."
Thank you Mr. Gauguin for your profound thoughts and your
love for all things in nature that encourages and inspires me, as
well as many others. I add these thoughts to honor you.

I watched a dainty stem stretch forth, From rocky clay and loam,
Unfolding leaves and buds and flowers, From its small earthen home.
It told me of the acts of man, That come a seed in mind,
To throw a shoot and gather root, To set in soil of time.

And as man adds his energies, To thoughts that may suggest,
He builds upon this framework, As deeds become a guest.
And as with children, thoughts may come, That bring great pride and joy,
When fresh new minds are guided right, And discipline employed.

But when the mind in wanton play, Permits its energies,
To dally in a dance of death, With negative disease.
Affinities thus formed take root, And seek to join with flesh,
To plant prehensile tentacles, And cause the body stress.

Like giant cancers, block the gate, And ramparts of the mind,
But daily work with truth can melt, Those cataracts that blind.
And magnetize into the life, Through energy of mind
Health and wealth and happiness, As thoughts bring forth in kind.

Restoring life to harmony, Attuning with the soul,
Affirming truth - Beliefs that loose, The tentacle's control. Your
mind will bloom a fragrant flower, And growth will daily bear,
Thoughts of love that bring like fruits, For all around to share.