Be steeped in the light of them…
“Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them … one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory of colour. This is what a picture should give us … an abyss in which the eye is lost, a secret germination, a coloured state of grace … loose consciousness. […]
Communion with her visible forms…
“To him who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language” –William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis I’m back from my travels and have many pics to post over the next few days. It was so wonderful to escape, to see things that were green, breathe in air that was […]
Find your eternity in each moment…
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” –Henry David Thoreau Sorry I’ve been absent from this blog – I hope you’ll hang […]
Grab whatever chance you have of happiness…
“but who can say what’s best? that’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. my experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, […]
The world will freely offer itself to you…
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet” –Franz Kafka
Think of this life-time as a festival…
I count it happiness, Ere we go quickly thither whence we came, To gaze ungrieving on these majesties, The world-wide sun, the stars, water and clouds, and fire. Live, Parmeno, a hundred years Or a few months, these you will always see and never, never, any greater things. Think of this life-time as a festival […]
Stars when you shine you know how I feel…
“Feeling Good” Nina Simone Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Reeds driftin on by you know how I feel (refrain:) Its a new dawn Its a new day Its a new life For me And Im feeling good Fish in the sea you know […]
When I am filled with music…
“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music” –George Eliot
The very meaning of one’s soul…
“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul” –Edith Wharton
But i’m not too blue to fly…
“The Littlest Birds” – The Be Good Tanyas Well I feel like an old hobo, I’m sad lonesome and blue I was fair as the summer day now the summer days are through You pass through places and places pass through you But you carry ’em with you on the souls of your travellin’ shoes Well I love […]