Standing with Trees

This is a collection of thoughts and images that speak to truth, spiritual peace and wisdom, as well as of those luminous patterns and deities that appear through different ages, civilizations and spiritual beliefs. This is like a soul’s diary where I collect the most holy creations I find; this way of looking is what I want people to remember me by.

[siamkram]

"Stories were his playground. They were his freedom....He read because stories gave him room to grow beyond the world he was given. They helped him feel as if all the lives he read about intertwined with his own, like threads in an ever-expanding rope. Stories made him strong."

- Recently dead Wilbur, on a whistle-stop tour of the life he has left, observes his teen self. From the Bardo of Railway Travel Matt Haig imagines in his newly published novel "The Midnight Train".

Written and quoted by Robert Moss

[siamkram]

“La abundancia no es acumulación, sino compartir con alegría lo que florece en ti. El que cosecha para sí mismo se pudre por dentro, el que ofrece su fruto al mundo es bendecido por los abuelos.” -Q’Anil, Pensamiento Maya

[siamkram]

god is a mother

and with that

sentence

the world stops

the world always stops

when woman and

divine

commingle

as if the

feminine

dilutes the

miraculous

when in reality

it embodies it

when jesus turns water

to wine

they clap

but when women turn breasts

to milk

they cringe

a broken man’s body

is celebrated each sunday

while a broken woman’s body

is just hidden away

and it’s no wonder

that mother is a word

used by men

to demonize those

who don’t claim the name

and weaponized to shame

those who step out of line

because

their ideal

woman

plays the role of nurturer

and silencer

in pews

built and led by them

but

when god

becomes mother

she is neither quiet

or compliant

she leads confidently

she questions authority

she commands respect

which might be the problem

for mother god

did not gather us up

carelessly

but took her time with it

she fed us milk

birthed our souls

and broke her body

and the permanence

can be uncomfortable

and to disentangle god

from motherhood

is impossible

but

to disentangle god

from womanhood

is sinful

because seeing god as mother

is one step closer

to seeing god in me

and it’s in that

i am truly

born again

~ Kaitlin Hardy Shetler

Kaitlin Shetler Poetry

www.skeptileptic.blogspot.com/p/poems-for-resistance.html

[siamkram]

“May the seed become a tree.

May the egg become a bird.

May the silence become singing.

May life be known as a miracle.

May strength overcome any obstacle.

May difficulty serve us to fly higher.

May every experience become a gift.

Let Art be medicine for every human.

Let Nature be the flag of every wise being.

May every sunrise be a celebration.

May all find their forgotten spirit.

May the earth become the dream.”

~ adapted from an unknown author, “May”

[siamkram]

[7pleiades7]

Vénus sortant du bain (also known as La Baigneuse and The Bather) (1767), by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain (French, 1710 – 1795), on the baseboard, on the reverse side: ‘C.G ALLEGRAIN FECIT’, marble, 1.74 m (5 ft. 8 ½ in.) x 62 cm (24 ¼ in.) x 67.5 cm (26 ½ in), Musée du Louvre

[kamala-laxman]

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing. Rumi

[anon-i-mus]

“You can recognize your true nature by tuning into your core being (as Infinite Consciousness). At the deepest level… you are not limited to a particular race, gender, tribe, culture, status, political affiliation or religion. Consciousness is not eastern, western, Christian, Hindu, Zen, New Age or any other religion/teachings.

Consciousness is the changeless, indivisible field of unfolding possibilities not bound to space, time, name or form. It is only our socially conditioned mind that unconsciously judges, compares, competes and separates each other. Reality stays beyond the reach of the mind because it is the very space in which the mind moves in.”

-Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous) *Subscribe to Anon I mus Youtube channel @ https://www.youtube.com/user/SpirituallyAnonImus http://egoawarenessmovement.org

[siamkram]

I just want to Shiva Shambo til the break of dawn.

[galusandmalus]

asclepius and his dragon

"Figure C. Asclepius holding a serpent-entwined rod and riding a winged serpent | Pautalia, Thrace; Caracalla (198-217 CE), c. 198-217 CE"

[siamkram]

"In its original state, the soul was feathered all over. So now it is all in a state of ferment and throbbing; in fact the soul of a man who is beginning to grow his feathers has the same sensations of pricking and irritation as children feel in their gums when they are just beginning to cut their teeth."

- Plato, Phaedrus

(Taken from a post by Robert Moss)

[siamkram]

I have been here.

[siamkram]

Ganga Sindu Saraswati

[siamkram]

I loved a flower so much that instead of plucking it, I left it alone. -Osho

[deathandmysticism]

Helen Weston Henderson, Rock Creek Cemetery, The art treasures of Washington, 1912

[siamkram]

[nocnitsa]

Ferdinand Keller The Tomb of Böcklin