There’s a very, very delicate line, a sort of razor’s edge: where is the ‘me’ being reborn, strengthened, or denied, and where is it simply being exposed, being seen directly for what it is?
Toni Packer (via sharanam)
Sheila Rock: Midnight Meditation, 2002. Thank you, firsttimeuser.

Sheila Rock: Midnight Meditation, 2002. Thank you, firsttimeuser.

Sheila Rock: Novice witch Dieties, 1999. From firsttimeuser.

Sheila Rock: Novice witch Dieties, 1999. From firsttimeuser.

Graciela Iturbide: Perros perdidos (*). Beautiful. Thank you, mianoti: (previously, previously)

Graciela Iturbide: Perros perdidos (*). Beautiful. Thank you, mianoti: (previously, previously)

(via mianoti-deactivated20110615)

The Bird Man, from the series Eyes to Fly.  Nayarit, Mexico. Graciela Iturbide looks for “surprise in ordinary things that I could have found anywhere in the world. The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.” [Stunning. Thank you, mianoti & findout]

The Bird Man, from the series Eyes to Fly.  Nayarit, Mexico.

Graciela Iturbide looks for “surprise in ordinary things that I could have found anywhere in the world. The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.”

[Stunning. Thank you, mianoti & findout]

“There hangs in the Louvre a “Méditation du Philosophe”, whose symbolical subject matter is nothing more nor less than the human mind, with its teeming darknesses, its moments of intellectual and visionary illumination, its mysterious stairways winding downward and upward into the unknown. The meditating philosopher sits there in his island of inner illumination; and at the opposite end of the symbolic chamber, in another, rosier island, an old woman crouches before the hearth. The firelight touches and transfigures her face, and we see, concretely illustrated, the possible paradox and supreme truth - that perception is (or at least can be, ought to be) the same as Revelation, that Reality shines out of every appearance, that the One is totally, infinitely present in all particulars.”  - Aldous Huxley in Heaven and Hell (1956) Thank you, predatorywaspobserver.

“There hangs in the Louvre a “Méditation du Philosophe”, whose symbolical subject matter is nothing more nor less than the human mind, with its teeming darknesses, its moments of intellectual and visionary illumination, its mysterious stairways winding downward and upward into the unknown. The meditating philosopher sits there in his island of inner illumination; and at the opposite end of the symbolic chamber, in another, rosier island, an old woman crouches before the hearth. The firelight touches and transfigures her face, and we see, concretely illustrated, the possible paradox and supreme truth - that perception is (or at least can be, ought to be) the same as Revelation, that Reality shines out of every appearance, that the One is totally, infinitely present in all particulars.” 

- Aldous Huxley in Heaven and Hell (1956)

Thank you, predatorywaspobserver.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh (via whokilled via: theattic)

(via whokilled-deactivated20111207)

track Don't Let Me Down
artist Charlotte Dada
album Money No Be Sand

Charlotte Dada - Don’t Let Me Down (Ghana 1971). An incredibly lovely Beatles cover courtesy of benjaminhilts, akubizone & cargohoo.

Vilhelm Hammershøi -Winter Landscape, 1895-6 (via: amare-habeo & aperfectcommotion)

Vilhelm Hammershøi -Winter Landscape, 1895-6 (via: amare-habeo & aperfectcommotion)

(Source: mythologyofblue)

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.
Thomas Merton. Thanks to The Fernwood Zendo.