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[weltenwellen]

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself ― that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

[twutch]

brian eno’s open letter to Microsoft from his instagram earlier

[my-spirits-aroma-or-deactivated]

Streets of Varanasi

[entheognosis]

Modern mystics and shaman proclaim with conviction that we human beings have actually created substantial portions of both the visible and non-visible middle worlds through our dreaming and through our creative imagination.

The Journey to the Sacred Garden

by Hank Wesselman, Ph.D.

[colour-morning]

I hope that I will always have all eyes on you

[aadhyathmikakendra]

Aadhyathmik Kali Maha Yantra Maha Kali Yantram Yendram Yanthiram Yendhiram In Copper – S924528

[weltenwellen]

Cheryl Chen, from "Epistle: River to Ophelia"

[vajrakali]

"If your underlying motivation is to get rid of pain, you’re actually reinforcing the neuronal patterns associated with the fear of pain. The best way to weaken these neuronal patterns is to simply make the effort to observe the pain objectively, leaving the results to sort themselves out."

– Mingyur Rinpoche from The Joy of Living

[aseaofquotes]

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

[sunbathe]

_sr_ch

[noosphe-re]

We are all antennae for creative thought. Some transmissions come on strong, others are more faint. If your antenna isn't sensitively tuned, you're likely to lose the data in the noise. Particularly since the signals coming through are often more subtle than the content we collect through sensory awareness. They are energetic more than tactile, intuitively perceived more than consciously recorded.

Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

[polkadotmotmot]

Johnny Defeo - Eternal Return, 2024 - Acrylic on panel

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[weepingwidar]

Marin Majić (German, 1979) - Safe from Sorrow (2023)

[neoyorzapoteca]

Everyone knows we need to have mud for lotuses to grow. The mud doesn’t smell so good, but the lotus flower smells very good. If you don’t have mud, the lotus won’t manifest. You can’t grow lotus flowers on marble. Without mud, there can be no lotus. It is possible of course to get stuck in the “mud” of life. It’s easy enough to notice mud all over you at times. The hardest thing to practice is not allowing yourself to be overwhelmed by despair. When you’re overwhelmed by despair, all you can see is suffering everywhere you look. You feel as if the worst thing is happening to you. But we must remember that suffering is a kind of mud that we need in order to generate joy and happiness. Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.

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No Mud, No Lotus (Thich Nhat Hanh)

[sea-call]

[nemfrog]

"A crown of pearly white light called the corona appears." The light of the world. 1940.

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