[old-school-romantics]

Suzaku (1997)

[dailyclassicart]

Albert Bierstadt - "A Deer at Sunset" (1887)

[theoptia]

Simone Weil, from Gravity and Grace

[henk-heijmans]

Cherry and yew - by Sarah Gillespie, English

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles, originally published in 2005

[rose1water]

[rose1water]

When they felt as though the earth, with all its expanse, closed in on them, and their very souls seemed to tighten around them—then, they realised that there is no refuge from God except in Him; and so He turned towards them with mercy, that they may turn back to Him. Indeed, God is All-Forgiving, Most Compassionate.

— Qur'ān, 9:118

[versenkt]

nothing feels as good as starting to read again when you haven't held a book in your hand for such a long time and now the setting sun is in your room and there's paper under your fingers and you feel so good about letting the words float into you again

[little-orkideh]

[malefixium]

the trees you grew up with have not forgotten you. their branches still whisper your name in the breeze and their roots remember the paths your feet once traced through their shade.

[metamorphesque]

A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis

[youngmajnoon]

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[fluorescent]

[rose1water]

— Charles Le Gai Eaton, Remembering God

[chrisengel]

"What is most profound in nature is also melancholy; for it too, mourns a lost good, & likewise, such an indestructible melancholy inheres in all forms of life." F.W.J. Schelling, (7,466), Stuttgarter Privatvorlesungen, 1810.

[entheognosis]

“A person who is beginning to sense the suffering of life is, at the same time, beginning to awaken to deeper realities, truer realities. For suffering smashes to pieces the complacency of our normal fictions about reality, and forces us to become alive in a special sense—to see carefully, to feel deeply, to touch our worlds in ways we have heretofore avoided.”

— Ken Wilber

[inkshebled]