Rühreier

„Man sollte alle Tage wenigstens ein kleines Lied hören, ein gutes Gedicht lesen, ein treffliches Gemälde sehen und, wenn es möglich zu machen wäre, einige vernünftige Worte sprechen.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Crystal Sky - Ola Gjeilo

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Fragment of Seeking (1947) // dir. Curtis Harrington

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[eretzyisrael]

“Sukkot is the festival of insecurity. It is the candid acknowledgment that there is no life without risk, yet we can face the future without fear when we know we are not alone. God is with us, in the rain that brings blessings to the earth, in the love that brought the universe and us into being and in the resilience of spirit that allowed a small and vulnerable people to outlive the greatest empires the world has ever known. Sukkot reminds us that God’s glory was present in the small, portable Tabernacle that Moses and the Israelites built in the desert even more emphatically than in Solomon’s Temple with all its grandeur. A temple can be destroyed. But a sukkah, broken, can be rebuilt tomorrow. Security is not something we can achieve physically but it is something we can acquire mentally, psychologically, spiritually. All it needs is the courage and willingness to sit under the shadow of God’s sheltering wings. For the sukkah, that quintessential symbol of vulnerability, turns out to be the embodiment of faith, the faith of a people who forty centuries ago set out on a risk-laden journey across a wilderness of space and time, with no more protection than the sheltering existence of the Divine presence. To know that life is full of risk and yet to affirm it, to sense the full insecurity of the human situation and yet to rejoice: this, for me, is the essence of faith and the heart of Sukkot. Judaism is no comforting illusion that all is well in this dark world. It is instead the courage to celebrate in the midst of uncertainty, and to rejoice even in the transitory shelter of the Sukkah, the Jewish symbol of home.” - Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Source: @rabbisacks

humansofjudaism

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Wild Geese

you do not have to be good you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves tell me about despair yours and I will tell you mine meanwhile the world goes on meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes over the prairies and the deep trees the mountains and the rivers meanwhile the wild geese high in the clean blue air are heading home again whoever you are no matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination calls to you like the wild geese harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place in the family of things -Mary Oliver

[ruehreier]

My dear In the midst of hate I found there was within me an invincible love. In the midst of tears I found there was within me an invincible smile In the midst of chaos I found there was within me an invincible calm I realized, through it all that In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer And that makes me happy For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me within me there’s something stronger something better pushing right back Truly yours Albert Camus

Art by Henri Prestes - Misty Fields

[motheyesofnight]

(from "When Spring Came, the Teacup Broke")

When spring came,

the teacup broke

Tears welled up

in the wind

The wind blew

and silence fell

And without shadows

the world is always

a bright

day

Blind faith

blights us

and the face disapproved

of my death

In my last moments,

the back gradually became distant

The face

wasn't seen

Other

faces are also

When spring came,

the teacup broke

No silence, no wind, no solitude

allowed.

[cosmicsage]

Don’t look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself. - Buddha

[the-gwynedd-chronicals]

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the Art of Axel Lyhrs

Axel Lyhrs

[ioliteheliodor]

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Aldous Harding - The Barrel

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Van Morrison - Precious Time

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Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Bob Marley

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