Things I like to see. Thank you: uncertaintimes & paullrdubois (via).
They miss the whisper that runs
any day in your mind,
“Who are you really, wanderer?”
and the answer you have to give
no matter how dark and cold
the world around you is:
“Maybe I’m a king.
William Stafford, with gratitude to Whiskey River.
Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Bruges: Snow Effect, c. 1900. Thank you, reflejos.
Todd Hido, #2431 (Thank you, proustitute & inthelowlight)
Krishna in a Garden. Love this. Thank you, windypoplarsroom & reflejos.
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts, we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed destiny. We have to be able to relax the psychic and spiritual cramp which knots us in the painful, vulnerable, helpless “I” that is all we know of ourselves.
Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966), p. 204 (via parabola-magazine)
MC Escher, Three Worlds, 1955. Thank you, cavetocanvas & benjaminhilts)
Time is constantly passing. If you really consider this fact, you will be simultaneously amazed and terrified. Time is passing, even for tiles, walls, and pebbles. This means that every moment dies to itself. As soon as it arises, it is gone. You cannot find any duration. Arising and passing away are simultaneous. That is why there is no seeing nor hearing. That is why we are both sentient beings and insentient beings.
Norman Fischer (via whiskey river, thank you, proustitute)
by Ernst Haas with thanks to the extraordinary collection that is Online Browsing.
