Bauhaus by Night: Untitled (Night View of Trees and Streetlamp, Burgkühnauer Allee, Dessau, 1928.From The Paris Review.
It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, an immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.
Octavio Paz. Today in the river.
By honoring one another’s creation we honor something that deeply connects us all, and goes beyond us.
Detail of the iwan of the Nasir al-Molk mosque in Shiraz, Iran. Beautiful,. Thank you, touba.
“The path is long that leads to where you already are.” —jcl2011
Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Photographer: One man’s perspective/Frank: Entrance Walkway, Koto-in Zen Temple, Kyoto, Japan, November 14, 2006. From parabola-magazine.
I have to see that there is a space between thoughts. A void that is reality, and I need to remain as long as possible in this space. Then another kind of thinking appears, clear and intelligent, a thought of another level, another dimension.
From the excerpt: “Another Vision” in our issue “Beauty” taken from the book “The Reality of Being,” by Jeanne de Salzmann. (via parabola-magazine)
I would like to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
John O’Donohue
Dora Maar, Jacqueline Lamba, ca 1935.
from: “Les vies de Dora Maar - Bataille, Picasso et les surréalistes”, transl. of: Christian-Martin Diebold, “Dora Maar: with and without Picasso” (2000)
Thank you, chagalov.
