From Parabola:
Thomas Merton "Reclining Buddha," Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, 1968.
“A wise man, recognizing the world is an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.”
—Buddha
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Photograph: Henry Miller Riding a Bicycle.
“It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion.”
—Henry Miller
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Photograph: Siegfried Lauterwasser "Shadows in Window," 1949
"In the half darkness they stared at the shadowy sockets of each other’s eyes, at the faint luminous eye of themselves, and brooded, and listened to the rain on the rooftops. They knew so much about each other, finally, that it must be impossible for them to fight ever again. The whole world was raining, but they were together in the warm sweet atmosphere of themselves, in the faint light their eyes made in the darkness, in the climate their bodies made embracing, in the season of their loving sadness. They were completely alone together in the sweetness of this, but it was then and only then somehow that they could remember the real enormous human love they must have for everyone else in the world. And the wisdom of the tender fact that they loved each other was so true and final. So much as that they did not say a word for hours together in the darkness, they were just quiet there."
—Jack Kerouac in The Town and The City
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Photograph: The 14th Dalai Lama hugging a Penguin.
I was sad one day and went for a walk;
I sat in a field.
A rabbit noticed my condition and
came near.
It often does not take more than that to help at times -
to just be close to creatures who
are so full of knowing,
so full of love
that they don’t
- chat,
they just gaze with
their
marvelous understanding.
~ St. John of the Cross from Love Poems from God, translations by Daniel Ladinsky. Thank you to The Beauty We Love.
Thomas Merton "Reclining Buddha," Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, 1968.
“A wise man, recognizing the world is an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.”
—Buddha
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Photograph: Henry Miller Riding a Bicycle.
“It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion.”
—Henry Miller
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Photograph: Siegfried Lauterwasser "Shadows in Window," 1949
"In the half darkness they stared at the shadowy sockets of each other’s eyes, at the faint luminous eye of themselves, and brooded, and listened to the rain on the rooftops. They knew so much about each other, finally, that it must be impossible for them to fight ever again. The whole world was raining, but they were together in the warm sweet atmosphere of themselves, in the faint light their eyes made in the darkness, in the climate their bodies made embracing, in the season of their loving sadness. They were completely alone together in the sweetness of this, but it was then and only then somehow that they could remember the real enormous human love they must have for everyone else in the world. And the wisdom of the tender fact that they loved each other was so true and final. So much as that they did not say a word for hours together in the darkness, they were just quiet there."
—Jack Kerouac in The Town and The City
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Photograph: The 14th Dalai Lama hugging a Penguin.
I was sad one day and went for a walk;
I sat in a field.
A rabbit noticed my condition and
came near.
It often does not take more than that to help at times -
to just be close to creatures who
are so full of knowing,
so full of love
that they don’t
- chat,
they just gaze with
their
marvelous understanding.
~ St. John of the Cross from Love Poems from God, translations by Daniel Ladinsky. Thank you to The Beauty We Love.
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