Fortis et Liber

[volscius]

CXCIX. At the precipice of disaster or of loss, there are two Natures. The smaller seeks to constrain, constrict, to store and save. The larger seeks to expand. One hunches over to count pieces of grain, the other captures new grain-fields.

[askistiyorumyadaolum]

[perriaeyjeve]

[psikonauti]

Josef Bsharah

[volscius]

CCCXXXVII. There are children that clench their jaw to spite pain.

[sorrrowfull]

[perriaeyjeve]

[dark-angels666]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Maria Eugenia Calderara, from Poems of Exile; “I Still Don't Know Your Name,”

[perriaeyjeve]

[expressions-of-nature]

by Lianhao Qu

[volscius]

DXVI. Before Sun rise, sit and face the Sun. Conjure up your luminous body. You must visualize your higher nature and see it destroying and surmounting every obstacle. By luminous fire, purge the mercy and doubt from your heart; purge the dross. By luminous fire, become a thing frightful to furies. 

[amicus-noctis]

“Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”    

― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

Painting: detail from "The End of the Quest" by Frank Dicksee

[saintmarc]

[nyctophilia-35]

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[iiumz]