Charles Livingston Bull (1874 ~ 1932) “Folks of the Woods” by Lucius C. Pardee Published by Doubleday, Page & Co 1912, from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
William Shakespeare (via jookurrpa)
J. Krishnamurti (Bombay - February 10th, 1957) (from predatorywaspobserver)
A person is a creation of the mind, to which we remain bound if we don’t awaken.
Ajahn Sumedho (via sharanam)
Rumi
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep.
“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
— Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkh, or Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
from Paul Coelho’s blog
Sakya Field of Accumulation, or Refuge Field: A Refuge Field is a particular type of Buddhist painting that arranges all of the teachers and deities of a particular tradition in one composition. The function of a Refuge Field is to remind the devotee of all of the most sacred objects contained in the tradition, namely the (1) Teacher, (2) Buddha, (3) Dharma - religious texts, (4) Sangha, (5) Ishtadevata - meditational deities, and (6) Dharmapala - the Religious Protectors, including wealth deities. It is this hierarchical grouping of teachers, books and deities that are the Field of Accumulation. Via mypage.direct.ca
(from eyeburfi)
Anonymous, “The puzzling journey of Confucius 1698,” Edo period Japan, woodcut (from sealmaiden)
Anonymous, “Amida appearing over the mountains,” 14th century Japan. Painting on silk. (from sealmaiden)
A Noh Mask, 1700’s (from sealmaiden via: Kissing the Mask)
