OF scrapbook.

Images collected from the past & touches of the present.

[lazyyogi]

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person–without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”

— Osho

[lazyyogi]

“On a deeper level you are already complete, and when you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do. When your deeper sense of self is derived from Being, when you are free of “becoming” as a psychological need, neither your happiness nor your sense of self depends on the outcome, and so there is freedom from fear. You don’t seek permanency where it cannot be found: in the world of form, of gain and loss, birth and death. You don’t demand that situations, conditions, places, or people should make you happy, and then suffer when they don’t live up to your expectations. Everything is honored, but nothing matters.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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He’s a rainbow! Jimi Hendrix by Jim Cummins, via

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[thesaltyblond]

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go.’”

— Lisa St Aubin de Terán (via valsedamelie)

[lafilleblanc]

Iris van Herpen

Fashion designer Iris van Herpen has created a series of dresses that replicate the feathers and soundwave patterns of birds in flight, and showcased them alongside a kinetic lighting installation by Studio Drift.

Amsterdam-based Van Herpen studied the movement of birds’ wings to create her Syntopia collection, which she presented at Le Trianon on 2 July, for Paris Haute Couture fashion week.

To accompany them, Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta of Studio Drift created an installation of moving glass tubes that also capture the motion of bird flight.

Each of Van Herpen’s 17 designs combine both organic and inorganic forms, to highlight the convergence of natural biology and manmade technology.

Traditional weaving techniques are combined with high-tech digital fabrication, resulting in a series of garments featuring complex parametric patterns. These range from pleated dresses made from liquid-coated silk organza, to wool coats made using laser cutting.

“As a former dancer, the transformation within movement has hypnotised me,” said Van Herpen. “For this collection I looked closely at the minutiae of bird flight and the intricate echoing forms within avian motion.”

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[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I love water. I love what it stands for. Water invites meditation. Land, action. Meditation is hydrographic, action, geographic. Meditation comes. Action goes.”

— César Vallejo, tr. by Clayton Eshleman, from “Negations of Negations,”

[expressions-of-nature]

by Troy Casswell

[dame-de-pique]

William Boyd Post - The seal rocks, Monterey 1892

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[earthstory]

This awesome image consists of 3,888 photos taken from the same vantage point in Oslo, Norway, for a whole year. The images are stitched together, with each photo contained in a column only a pixel wide. In terms of calendar months, January is to the left and December to the right. Jean Photo by Eirik Solheim

[graceless-goddess-deactivated20]

I hope you have a relationship that’s real for once and you are sure of where you are in their life. I hope you’re not a distraction or a past time or something to be used. But a love, a sweetheart, a muse. I hope you are something to somebody and that they are just as crazy about you as you are for them.

[sublimequotesilove]

A man can never hope to be more than what he is if he is not first honest about what he isn’t.

Don Williams Jr. (via sublimequotesilove)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R00Vu7Ag7s&feature=share

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https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime/details

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