Participation Mystique

None of what I post is mine. I am interested in the duplicity of human nature. I am interested in how we explain what is elusive to rational thought and to science. I am interested in the frailty of life, and in what does not die. Knowledge has its place, but what is knowing?

[abiding-in-peace]

[participationmystique]

There are times when the strongest thing you can do is to allow yourself to feel weak, to stare your inherent vulnerability in the face and not bolt.

There is dignity in the worst of circumstances. All you have to do is accept and understand that. Allow yourself to feel broken, look on the mortal stipulation with an honest face and you can keep yours. Be human. You have permission

[rumidervish]

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[rumidervish]

“A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.”

-Shams Tabrizi https://www.instagram.com/p/B_1ngncFijk/?igshid=1v44uzeazxcml

[rumidervish]

“Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”

Shams Tabriz

https://www.instagram.com/p/B__x3bbFkJB/?igshid=y87vtxzjffh9

[weirdletter]

Apocrypha, by Scott Hegarty (irishfist123), via DeviantArt.

[abandonedandurbex]

The famous “Spooky House” of Pittsburg, NH. Been there for years. Only a couple more snowy winters before that roof gives way [3264x2448]

[old-soul-gemini]

[artist-constable]

Hadleigh Castle, 1829, John Constable

Medium: oil,canvas

[ancient-serpent]

“Not even the human imagination satisfies the endless emptiness of the soul.”

— Allen Ginsberg, from Collected Poems 1947-1997 

[kxowledge]

“Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.”

— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (tr. Stephen Mitchell)

[tahomans]

[nemfrog]

“New Palomar pictures.” Engineering and Science. February 1952. Cover photo.

Internet Archive

[met-islamic-art]

Fragment of a Shoulder Band, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic Art

Gift of George F. Baker, 1890 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/443814

[definitelydope]

(by RazorBrown)

[ioseee]

Siberian ibex.