Author: Roksana Amelia

The Whole World is Garden

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”– 

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Dreamy Pines – A Painting

Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant.”

Morihei Ueshiba

9 Must Read Books

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader”~

1. The World As I See It by Albert Einstein

2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

3. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

4. The Psychology Of Money

5. The Great Mental Models

6. The 48 Laws of Power

7. The Daily Stoic

8. Atomic habits

9. Deep Work

Which books will you add?

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” – 

Roald Dahl

Passionate – Paintings

Do it with passion or not at all … “

Unfinished – A Painting

May be I could have done something else with this art, but then I thought to abandon it just like this, and sign it ‘roksanaamelia’ with a charcoal.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
-Leonardo da Vinci


#JianBirdGallery❄️

Travel

Try to travel, otherwise
you may become racist,
and you may end up believing
that your skin is the only one
to be right,
that your language
is the most romantic
and that you were the first
to be the first.

Travel,
because if you don’t travel then
your thoughts won’t be strengthened,
won’t get filled with ideas.
Your dreams will be born with fragile legs and then you end up believing in tv-shows, and in those who invent enemies
that fit perfectly with your nightmares
to make you live in terror.

Travel,
because travel teaches
to say good morning to everyone
regardless of which sun we come from.

Travel,
because travel teaches
to say goodnight to everyone
regardless of the darkness
that we carry inside.

Travel,
because traveling teaches to resist,
not to depend,
to accept others, not just for who they are
but also for what they can never be.
To know what we are capable of,
to feel part of a family
beyond borders,
beyond traditions and culture.
Traveling teaches us to be beyond.

Travel,
otherwise you end up believing
that you are made only for a panorama
and instead inside you
there are wonderful landscapes
still to visit.

– Gio_Evan, poet and songwriter.
Translated from Italian.

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July, 2021
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco, USA

Fear nothing, Travel more

Coffee break

Long long time ago,

This very special coffee time,
with a dear friend.

We had been planning to go to North End for having coffee-break over there, specially Fahmi always wanted to take me there, specially for the coffee-aroma that she loves so much, but we never could manage time, but suddenly, on that day, we just decided to go there! And it was great time with her, with all the enlightening things she always share! And it was her treat! 😊

Happy and grateful that we could get this coffee time together……

Life is beautiful!

Coffee and friends make the perfect blend. 

Anonymous

The Wooden Bridge

This bridge will only take you halfway there

To those mysterious lands you long to see

Shel Silverstein
The wooden bridge. We went there to observe this bridge. Its not so stable, yet people are passing through it randomly, and we even saw some motorbikes were running so fast. They are not scared. But we were scared, thought it will break anytime. 
We loved the scenery though.  The river water was not so deep. The boats are sailing. People are doing their jobs upon the river bank. Ahh! What a beautiful breeze by the bank of this river Korotoa. 

#roksanatales

Stillness

I think I have learnt something of the value of stillness. I don’t fret so much; I laugh at myself more often; I don’t laugh at others. I live life at my own pace. Like a banyan tree. Is this wisdom, or is it just old age?”

Ruskin Bond, A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills

Hold On

God is there for you to hold on.
Hold on to what is good, even if it’s a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe, even if it’s a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do, even if it’s a long way from here.
Hold on to your faith, even if it’s easier to let go.
Hold on to God’s hand””~.

Dear, Rest at Ease

Restless dragonfly, resting at ease. I found this beauty while travelling to an unknown place. It was afternoon, quite quiet time around, and I was walking beside an old wall. Suddenly I saw this one hanging on a branch of a creeper . I went closer to it. It didn’t move a bit.

Dear dragonfly, rest at ease and show me your beauty ....

Dear dragonfly, life is made perfect in you lovely….

Dear dragonfly, a beauty

Friendship Is The Best – inspiring

Friendship is the Best !

Monks, a friend endowed with seven qualities is worth associating with. Which seven?

1- He who gives what is hard to give.

2- He who does what is hard to do.

3- He who endures what is hard to endure.

4- He who reveals his secrets to you.

5- He who keeps your secrets.

6- When misfortunes strike, he doesn’t abandon you.

7- When you’re down and out, he doesn’t look down on you.

Mitta Sutta

Surrender – a quote

The boat I travel in is called Surrender.
My two oars are instant forgiveness and gratitude
complete gratitude for the gift of life.
I am thankful for the experience of this life,
for the opportunity to dance.
I get angry, I get mad,
but as soon as I remind myself
to put my oars in the water,
I forgive.

I serve.
I do the dance I must.
I plant trees,
but I am not the doer of this work.
I am the facilitator, the instrument.
I am one part of the symphony.
I know there is an overall scheme to this symphony
that I cannot understand.
In some way, we are each playing our own part.
It is not for me to judge or criticize the life or work of another.
All I know is that this is my dance.
I would plant trees today
even if I knew for a certainty that the world
would end tomorrow.

Balbir Mathur

A Reflection of You

is nothing but a reflection of me ….

A reflection of you-
A love that spans the miles.

A reflection of you-
The steady noonday sunbeams.

A reflection of you-
The unfolding of words.

A reflection of you-
A plain-spoken philosophy.

A reflection of you-
An ambient naturalism.

A reflection of you-
A friend, most protective.

A reflection of you-
A promise of a lifetime happiness.

A reflection of you-
A flash of lightening in darkness.

A reflection of you-
The soft caress closeness.

A reflection of you-
Too tempting and warm.

A reflection of you-
Something nice about something wrong.

A reflection of you-
A seamless flowing movement.

A reflection of you-
The beating to joyful rhythms.

A reflection of you-
An endless age, inside and out.

A reflection of you-
Thus the windows to my heart.

A reflection of you-
A pleasing proportionality.

A reflection of you-
The threads of my antic tapestry.

A reflection of you-
The reflective silence.

A reflection of you-
Is the mirror of a beautiful reflection?

A reflection of you-
Is nothing but a reflection of me.

Black n White

Sometimes we’re just too black and white in our thinking instead of acknowledging all the other colors of life. The world can’t always be neatly parceled up in the way that some of our questions about life might imply. That’s why, instead of asking for ‘answers’ of an question, we should just ask for’ impressions’~

Sometimes, the shades of gray is so much WoW♥

I’d never let you go……
“Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can”
Come, little leaves,” said the Wind one day, “Come to the meadows with me and play.
Put on your dresses of red and gold;
For Summer is past, and the days grow cold.”

~George Cooper
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.
~ Jonny Kim
Trees are poems
that the earth writes upon the sky!”

Kahlil Gibran
Everything is connected”
“Come, let us have some tea and
continue to talk about happy things” 
“It’s not what you have on the outside that glitters in light,
it’s what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.”

― Anthony Liccione
You can be in love with solitude;
it won’t last long!
You can be in love with crowds;
it won’t last long!””
চিত্র!
You don’t have to know where you’re going to get
exactly where you need to go”…..
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs
There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”
– Dejan Stojanovic
You can be in love with solitude;
it won’t last long!
You can be in love with crowds;
it won’t last long!””
“Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white.”

ჱܓჱܓ
জল বাড়ে মায়া বাড়ে,
নিয়তির খেলা
এক শ্রাবণে নৌওকো ভাসে
বিরহে একেলা!
মেঘে মেঘে এতো বেলা
হেসে খেলে অবহেলায়
অজানারী আহবানে
চলছে কেমন খেলা!

কি শুনাইলা কি বুঝাইলা
জড়াইলা কি মায়াতে!”
পাতায় পাতায় গল্প-গাঁথা! 
চিত্রকর! ♥
আলোকিত আমি তোমার আলোকরশ্মিতে! ♥

Painter, Creator ♥
I am enlightened by your light! 

There’s so much grey to every story – nothing is so black and white!”