Nunc cognosco

et tenebrae eam non conprehenderunt

[lumen-hilare]

[nunccognosco]

Pylons

[paintedout]

Cy Twombly, Achilles Mourning the Death of Patroclus, 1962

[nunccognosco]

recent grainy selfies, featuring my constantly tilted head and protruding neck. 

[nunccognosco]

When Moses saw the bush in flames, burning in the desert but not consumed, You did not answer his question with a definition. You said, "I am." What could be the effect of such an answer? It made the very dust of the earth instantly holy, so that Moses threw away his shoes (symbols of his senses and of his body) lest remain any image in the way between Your sanctity and his adoration.

No man is an Island, Thomas Merton

[grundoonmgnx]

Alice Neel, Hartley with a Cat, 1969

Oil on canvas101.9 x 76.5 x 2.2 cm 

[germanpostwarmodern]

Synagogue (1966-68) in Linz, Austria, by Friedrich Goffitzer

[artist-matisse]

Tree of Life’ Stained Glass behind the Altar in the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence via Henri Matisse

Medium: vitrage

[lumen-hilare]

[nunccognosco]

Tasman Peninsula 

[nunccognosco]

[nunccognosco]

The conditions of modern civilisation, even in tree-tops, militates strongly against the aspirations of hesychast & lama. where now is recollected silence?

Letter from Robert Lax to Thomas Merton, in Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax

[amare-habeo]

Fabienne Verdier (French, born 1962)

Saint Christophe crossing the water III, 2011

Ink, pigments, varnish on canvas, 180 x 365 cm

[cruciform-solidarity]

Why, then, are we not silent about Him?

Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Romans (via spiritandteeth)

[nunccognosco]

Blue to blue 

Amir Chakhmaq Minarets, Yazd

[s-u-f-j-a-n-s-t-e-v-e-n-s]

[nunccognosco]

Abbot Pastor: Any trial whatever that comes to you can be conquered by silence.

The Wisdom of the Desert, Thomas Merton

[s-u-f-j-a-n-s-t-e-v-e-n-s]

[nunccognosco]

Dusk