Trail of Leaves @trailofleaves - Tumblr Blog

Last night in my dream, I saw my hunger. I saw my need. I saw an emptiness only God can fill.

Enchanted by the beauty of this poverty, I nearly fainted.

Enchanted by its perfection, I lay awestruck till dawn.

This poverty is a mine of rubies. Its red glow drapes me in silk.

— Rumi, Water - translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

#Rumi #poetry #sufi poetry #emptiness #need #spirituaity #God

inemi

"La Nature" (Nature).

Alphonse Mucha . 1899-1900.

Musée Fin-de-Siecle, Brussels .

(Photo Bruno Piazza Gillion Crowet)

#Alphonse Mucha #sculpture #art #nature #the feminine

89rooms

Who will ever know your heart, who will ever know your mind? You have that fatal quality of silence - of a tight repression that suggests a hidden fire - yes, a burning fire unquenchable.

Daphne Du Maurier - ‘The Doll: The Lost Short Stories’

huariqueje

Small Silent Nocturne - Alice Dalton Brown , 2024.

American , b. 1939 -

Oil on linen , 30 × 20 cm.

#Alice Dalton Brown #curtains #water view #painting #blue #Silence

“As regards freedom of thought, it is very nearly true to say that without freedom there is no thought. But it is truer still to say that when thought is non-existent, it is non-free into the bargain. There has been a lot of freedom of thought over the past few years, but no thought. Rather like the case of a child who, not having any meat, asks for salt with which to season it.”

— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

#Simone Weil #the need for roots #philosophy #thought #freedom

undinael

by Undinael

insta: @undinael

#painting #sensual #the feminine #water #flow

philosophybits

“The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travelers amazed at foreign customs.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (12.13)

#marcus aurelius #philosophy #stoicism

caspar-david-friedrich-paintings

-Dolmen in snow-

#painting #snow #trees

nixscriptum

Years pass, but with you, it’s always opening night. ( ⚘ )

#love

the-cricket-chirps

Huang Yongyu

Red Plum Blossoms

1973

Ink and colour on paper

#painting #Red blossoms

“Fear and terror, as permanent states of the soul, are wellnigh mortal poisons, whether they be caused by the threat of unemployment, police persecution, the presence of a foreign conqueror, the probability of invasion, or any other calamity which seems too much for human strength to bear.

The Roman masters used to place a whip in the hall within sight of their slaves, knowing that this spectacle reduced their hearts to that half-dead condition indispensable for slavery. On the other hand, according to the Egyptians, the just man should be able to say after death: 'I never caused any one any fear'.

Even if permanent fear constitutes a latent state only, so that its painful effects are only rarely experienced directly, it remains always a disease. It is a semi-paralysis of the soul.”

— Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

#Simone Weil #The Need for Roots #fear #security

valentineua

Idyll (Männlicher und weiblicher Halbakt in der Landschaft) (1894) - Ludwig von Hofmann (1861-1945)

#painting #nature #man and woman

askyea-poesy

We pass by so many people every single day. And none of them wear signs that say: “I'm grieving.” “I'm tired.” “I'm barely holding it together.” But they're everywhere. Quietly carrying heavy loads. Silently hoping for a little light. That's why kindness matters. A gentle word, a warm smile, a soft presence— It might be the only softness someone feels today. So be kind. Always. The world is already heavy enough.

Adeife Adeyeye

#kindness