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“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” -Albert Einstein What is it nature teaches you? Photography by Dianne Furphy, 2011, Mexico, Natural Cave. 0 Like this.
Mistakes… we have all made mistakes weather they were intentional or not. I am proud of my mistakes because without them, I would not have made it as far as I am today. There were some mistakes I made that were not the best for my well-being but I made sure to learn from those mistakes. Without those blunders I would not have been able to grow and know what I do and do not want for myself. The great thing about making mistakes is that when other people make them, we have the opportunity to learn from them as well.
Have fun living your life without worries or fears that you are going to make mistakes because they are bound to happen. You do, however, have a choice whether to either make the same mistake repeatedly, even when you know the consequences are ugly and hurting yourself and others… Or you can choose to learn from it and know the action no longer serves you anymore. This is why being aware of your choices and behavior are important; to help better yourself (and others). Mistakes are what help us; they are living out experiences and making progress in creating who we. Deliberate mistakes are designed as key opportunities to opening us up to something new; especially by having a healthy mentality and attitude when making the mistake… So make sure to own up, take responsibility and accept your actions and behaviors. Even when others makes mistakes, forgive them and let go. No one is perfect, yet we are all perfect just the way we are. 
Remember to take risks, learn from them and let it go into the past. Only bring forward the benefits of what the mistake has taught you. Happy Living!
Love, Peace and Blessings,
Dianne Furphy
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.” -Steve Maraboli
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” -Rita Mae Brown
“We learn from failure, not from success!” -Bram Stoker
Photography by Dianne Furphy, 2012, Fort Washington State Park, PA.
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND YOU CAN CREATE WHAT YOU WANT.
I was down the shore this weekend with my family and seen another beautiful sunset on the beach. My 4 year old asks, “Does the sun breathe when it goes under the water?” I absolutely LOVE how kids come up with such questions. How fun it is to be curious!!! Trying to explain to a 4 year old that the sun orbits around planet earth is the challenge… But I am surely grateful for my son to even expand my thoughts and to have me thinking in ways I could not have imagined before…. How fun! 
Photography by Dianne Furphy, Cape May New Jersey, August 12, 2012.
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND YOU CAN CREATE WHAT YOU WANT.
Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Be curious! Questions are very important. They help us lead to the answers we are searching for. Who Am I? What is my purpose? When will I experience what I have always wanted? Why Am I here? How do I feel? Open up and ask as many questions as you possibly can. Ask what it is you feel. Life is about exploring, experiencing and learning and by asking questions you are opening yourself up to living a life of knowing and achieving your true desires. There is no such thing as too big or too little of questions. Ask anything your heart has in store and be aware of all you experience because it is within those life experiences that you shall receive the answer. Somehow, someway, you will most definitely come across the who, what, when, where, why and how’s. That is the neat thing about life; ask and you shall receive! By being observant, aware and awake in all that comes your way, you are learning more and more about yourself. After all, it is about YOU. This is your life, your journey. No one else can give you the answers you are looking for. It is all within you. Stay focused on how you feel and the thoughts that cross your mind, stay tuned in so you do not miss whatever it is that you are searching for. By asking the right questions, you are leading yourself to your biggest dreams, to accomplish what your heart truly desires. Be curious so you can explore, live, learn and enjoy. Happy Asking!
Have fun on your journey of finding yourself, that is what is it all about!
Love, Light and Blessings,
Dianne Furphy
“A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.” -Brian Tracy
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.” -Albert Einstein
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” -Matthew 7:7-8 (Bible)
“The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.” -John Simone
“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the answer, I would spend the first 55 minutes figuring out the proper questions to ask. For if I knew the proper questions, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes.” -Albert Einstein
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.” -Claude Lévi-Strauss
“Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.” -J.D. Stroube
“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.” -Charles P. Steinmetz
Photography by Dianne Furphy, 2012, Morris Arboretum, PA.
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND YOU CAN CREATE WHAT YOU WANT.
Do you have habits or addictions that you are not happy with? How is your attitude? Do you react in a way that hurts yourself or others? Become aware of who you really are in any given situation and change what it is that no longer serves you and you’re best good. Especially in difficult times, the real test lies in the hard times, to remain patient and calm. During those obstacles, know that you have the opportunity right in front of you to change and create the YOU that you have always wanted to BE. Taking responsibility of your actions and feelings is the first step of knowing you are aware that you are in charge of your own life. It is not others who make you act and behave in such a way, it is you. You have the power and control over how you feel and what you do with your feelings. Be in the present, in the now and do not dwell on or look back on the past of the bad times. Rid and release any old beliefs that serve you no good. By letting go and not looking back, you are creating a new you. When you have negative thoughts that cross your mind, redirect those thoughts and think of things that make you happy, start naming all of the things you are grateful for. By doing this; you are breaking those old beliefs and building a new, healthier you. Be in full control of yourself and create the new you that you have always wanted to BE. There is no better time to start than the time you have right now!
Goodbye old beliefs, I let go and release you. I rise above all of the hate, anger and fear. Hello and welcome the new ME, I embrace you with love, kindness and patience now and always.
Love, Light and Blessings,
Dianne Furphy
“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” -Albert Einstein
“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.” -Dalai Lama
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” -Marcus Aurelius
Photography by Dianne Furphy, 2011, Florida.
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” -Albert Einstein
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“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” -Albert Einstein
“Feel It.” Acrylic abstract painting by Dianne Furphy, June 2012, on 12 X 12 canvas. Sides are painted. On Sale: $55.00 US.
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Change!!! Change happens all the time. YOU also determine change. So make the changes in your life that are needed… don’t hold on; let go! Do the things you are most scared of; after doing so, you will face your fears and want to do and change more.
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” -C.S. Lewis
Take one step at a time and change what you know you have to do for YOURSELF, to better yourself in every way that you know how to. By doing so, it will be a great relief and you will be proud of yourself for doing the thing you thought you could not do. This will help motivate you into breaking the cycle of your bad habits you want to dispose.
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” -Tony Robbins
Welcome and embrace change. Change is okay. Change is healthy. Therefore, do not stay in the same routine, break free and change yourself to who you really want to be. We all have the power within us to Create What You Want. Start today! Start now!
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” -Life’s Little Instruction Book
Have a changed BEAUTIFUL day, you changed BEAUTIFUL people!
With Love Always,
Dianne
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
-Albert Einstein
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ~Malcolm X
I came across this song called, Dreaming In Hell by an Underground Hip-Hop Artist named Benefit that relates to my perspective on the Mass Media. You can take this song as you like but my interpretation of Dreaming In Hell is that the Government/Ruling Class/Elite also known as the people with the Higher Power or whatever you like to refer to them as–are getting over on the people who don’t even realize it. It seems majoirty of people are too caught up in the media and propaganda espically through majoirty of our communication systems such as the Internet, cell phones, television and and so on. I believe we are being brainwashed and brains are being polluted with such as hate, discrimination, prejudice, violence and all the negaitve that goes along with it… which seems like is a plan that the superior people have in order to maintain power. I believe this is to distract people from using their own imagination and capabilities to create their own, unique powerful way of living. I believe the mass media is taking away people the LOVE and people’s strengths, their own originality and all that goes along with it due to all of the hostility that is being displayed for everyone to see repeatedly.
“The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the public’s general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become as aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy and powerful multinational corporations, members of Congress, the current Presidential Administration including the administrations that preceded it. The news media is being utilized as a political tool of suppression and propaganda by those in power, and propaganda is psychological in nature. Full of half-truths and utter misinformation, it’s an arrogant and very commercial strategy that is implemented because it appeals to emotions, fear being the main one relentless talk of national security, personal and community safety, can trigger childhood insecurities and indoctrinated views of authority.” –Teresa Stover
Furthermore, the reason why I am blogging about this song is because as soon as I heard it, I could relate to it especially with my blog. Also, specifically I took it as if his one line saying, “Before it was too much I was beginning to choke, I started to think on my own and then I awoke,” related to my blog due to how if you think on your own and use your own imaginations and thoughts, you can create what you want with your own life. All of this media really has people so caught up in a diluted world way-of-living. I am really hoping that I can reach out to people to possibly think twice about how much mass media really plays a role in ones life. According to this article I found and highly recommend to read, “Unsurprisingly, and again consistent with a pro-coporate bias, all of the major broadcast and print media have been either directly involved in secret FTAA negotations or else had an interlocking directorate with a company that was, except for Viacom and Fox. As international trade and globalization are among the most important and newsworthy topics today, the failure to adequately inform the American people of thier own role and interest in these matters is a severe rupture of journaistic integrity” (The Mass Media & Politics: An Analysis of Influence, n.d.). Furthermore, If we are all able to avoid all the negative such as the news, commericals, reality T.V. (since majority of it is about is drama and fighting) and any other form of device that instills such negative, violent information in our brains and if we are able to think on our own with positive, healthy thoughts; I am sure our world would be more of a brighter place. Really think about it… the most popular talked about reality shows, talk shows, today’s music, and so on are all about fighting, violence and there is really no heart-felt meaning at all behind it. Take for example: Jersey Shore, Bad Girls Club, Jerry Springer Show, and so on… Even on the news, as soon as you turn it on, all that is being broadcasted is all negative forms of information. What happened to the good? I know there is a lot of good in this world so how come media is not advertising all the good that goes on throughout the world? “Mass media decision makers are overwhelmingly White, male and wealthy. It may come as no surprise, then, that the media tend to ignore the lives and ambitions of subordinate groups, among them working-class people, African Americans, Hispanics, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities, overweight people, and older people” (Schaefer, 2009, p. 139).
“The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts… How does the media do this? By quoting some “expert”… you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.” –Peter McWilliams
Now do not let me mislead you, I am completely guilty of watching some shows that are more violent than others but I do not believe I am affected by wanting to act in an aggressive manner just by watching such derogatory shows but then again, the information is entering my brian which plays a role in the brain regardles. Television, music, books, Internet, etc… does have an influence in our lives espically if it is negative because it will bring out the aggressive, hatred, volent behavior in us. “Media content may create false images or stereotypes of these groups that then become accepted as accurate portrayals of reality” (Schaefer, 2009, p. 139). We are all brought up differently and have different backgrounds. Yet we are all humans and the Mass Media seems to basically pollute our minds thinking that one person is better than another. The Mass Media seem to be getting more conflicting ideas and instilling it into our brains since we were all so young.
“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.” ~B.F. Skinner
Therefore, I do believe it can have a major affect on young children. Young children are acting and imitating what they see; take it from a mother of an almost three year old. My toddler definitely imitates everything he sees and hears. Even though there are people who have a better understanding of having a choice on how to behave; these young children are still in the process of learning such behavior and these young children are our future. So we all need to make choices of what will all benefit us as people.. as a whole; especially that we are all interconnected and one.
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” –Albert Einstein
I wanted to bring this to people’s awareness to hopefully have people realize what is going on with the world surrounding them. “Media advertising contributes to a consumer culture that creates “needs” and raises unrealistic expectations of what is required to be happy or satisfied” (Schaffer, 2009, p. 35). I am trying to stand up for what I believe in and that is to hopefully help raise awareness about the Mass Media and the “Superior People” with all the power and try to help people realize how much the Mass Media influences us as people–as a whole. I believe we all have greater capabilites than we are aware of. I have learned that by focusing on being positive, love and peace and mediatating can help you be more tuned in with your inner self becasue it is within that that has all the true power. Therefore, my purpose of this blog is to hopefully help people realize how much negative information is entering their minds on a daily basis which can cause them to be unaware. I am hoping to reach out to people and automatically have them tune-out any unhealthy, negative, degrading media because such information entering your brain may have an affect on your reality and your happiness and with your inner self. …Let’s create a healthier, brighter, happier, safer tomorrow and future for everyone-…and be in-tuned in with your inner self.
I would also like to hear your opinion on the government and/or media… Do you think that the media plays a role in your life? …If so, how? Is it for the better? …Or worse? Do you watch a lot of violent shows or movies? What about positive media? …Do you behave or act out the media that you let into your life? Do you do any exercise or mediation? How do they place an influence in your life? I am highly interested in your thoughts and opinions… Please comment in the comment box below. Thanks!
Listed below are the lyrics to “Dreaming In Hell” by Benefit that I found from a website. Hope you enjoy!
“[Intro] (sample) Over the city, the city that will soon be laid waste
by war, now it is still alive, biding its time. Nobody has yet come to
suspect the impending doom.
[Intro] (Benefit talking) I saw hell in a dream. I saw hell in a dream. I
saw hell in a dream, I had to wake up. Yo:
I had a dream I took a trip to hell
The devil had my people locked in a cryptic cell
Ain’t living it well, we casting unlimited spells
Shouted “freedom!” but lived in a subliminal jail
With anthrax ? ? ? the criminal males
Crack babies on welfare living to fail
How livid? detail, little kids vivid and frail
Behold a horse riding now isn’t it pale
In hell politicians will sit in a building
Getting rich off of the devils pay chill and chill grin?
Lying, it was beginning to kill them
Poisoning the minds of men, women and children
In hell i couldn’t find any natural foods to eat
chemicals in my mouth if i actually chewed the meat
Couldn’t run from the sun and the heat
And at night in hell sodomized? running the street
Cause out of the club, ecstasy,
Shouted out love, but it was empty
Emotion and never guided above
Wicked women celebrated finer joys in this doom
Put many boys in a tomb, polluted poisonous womb
The devil had me working, given me no slack
If i felt a little sad he was feeding me Prozac
Drug in my head, people worship the thugging and dead
In reality the working man is rugged instead
So wake up
Wake up (echoing) if you’re dreaming in hell X5
The devil had me thinking there was nothing I’d regret
Meanwhile pulling me deep in a fiery pit
Spending oil when they needed to ban it
Killing off living life as they heated the planet
In hell the intelligent will trap the silent
The projects will fill with crack and violence
The devil was controlling what the media played
The radio was all about getting greedy and paid
The music was weak, the ignorant were choosing to speak
Pimps and prostitutes were abusing the street
The people were all thinking with invisible brains
In hell slaves walk with invisible chains
Turning on the television to be sold a lie
Knowing something wasn’t right but not beholding why
Palestinian children and babies with guns
Burst firebomb flames throwing? Arabian suns
The devil had greedy politicians igniting war
The population wont even know what they’re fighting for
Dead bodies laying in he mud and soil
Innocent lives lost trading their blood for oil
Kids in the street dying, right to the sick?
This dream was fast becoming a nightmare quick
Before it was too much I was beginning to choke
i started to think of my own
And then i awoke
Wake up (echoing) if you’re dreaming in hell X4”
References:
Schaefer, R., T. (2009). Sociology: A Brief Intorduction. (8 Eds.). McGraw Hill: Boston.
The Mass Media & Politics: An Analysis of Influence. (n.d.). The Mass Media & Politics: An Analysis of Influence. Retrieved June 6, 2011, from http://www.progressiveliving.org/mass_media_and_politics.htm
Lyrics found:
http://www.lyred.com/lyrics/Benefit/unreleased/Dreaming+In+Hell/
~“Believe in yourself and you can create what you want.”