Varanasi, India, 2012. Taken during my recent trip through India. More photo highlights here.
I’m headed for India early next week to spend a month there traveling around. I will be taking several long train rides through different parts the country. Trains are a great way to see the Indian countryside, and they are also an extraordinary experience in themselves.
Happy Holidays, Everyone!
Luke
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“There’s a skin or hide between ourselves and our inner being. And in the West that skin is very thick. Inside us there’s a sea and that sea is your inner life, your spiritual life, and your sexual impulses - everything you’ve gotten from the memory stores of evolution. Then there’s the outside world made of buildings and automobiles. And these two worlds can’t rub against each other. It’s too painful. Therefore you develop a hide exactly like a cow develops a hide. You don’t want her guts to rub against the barn.”
—Robert Bly spoken to Lewis Hyde in an interview taken from Robert Bly In This World.
Photo by Luke Storms taken somewhere in India when I was there in 2005. Text courtesy of the exceptional curator at The Beauty We Love.
This beautiful painting reminds me of a little story.
Figure with sword and trisula, in antelope chariot, with caption, Chandra, the moon. Water-colour on paper. 19th Century, India via: The British Museum from lethebashar & marsiouxpial
A detailed perspective of the burning ghats in Varnasi, situated on the banks of the river Ganges where the bodies are released after being cremated, Photographer unknown, c. 1891 (from theshipthatflew via: VAM)
E.O.Udaipur Gateway, India,” c.1930’s, Gelatin silver print (from aperfectcommotion & theshipthatflew: via)
Photographer Unknown, Paul McCartney and John Lennon, India (1968). From endlessme.
Linda Connor: Reflection(s), Spiti, India
