From Parabola:
Nicolas Roerich "Ashram," 1931 from Ashrams series. Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, USA.
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
—T. S. Eliot
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Photograph: Sheila Rock: "Hands of Faith" 1999, from her "Spiritual Beings: Ways of the Tibetan Monk" Series. Gelatin Silver Print on Baryte, 23,5 x 29,9 cm. Harry Smith, "Buddha's Footprint" drafted 1982.
"The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."
—Thich Nhat Hanh
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Illustration: Gustave Doré from Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”
"The Mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
—John Milton, Paradise Lost
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Photograph: Todd Hido, #6093, 2008-2010 — from the book "A Road Divided."
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going,
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,
though I may know nothing about it.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
—Thomas Merton
Nicolas Roerich "Ashram," 1931 from Ashrams series. Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, USA.
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
—T. S. Eliot
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Photograph: Sheila Rock: "Hands of Faith" 1999, from her "Spiritual Beings: Ways of the Tibetan Monk" Series. Gelatin Silver Print on Baryte, 23,5 x 29,9 cm. Harry Smith, "Buddha's Footprint" drafted 1982.
"The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."
—Thich Nhat Hanh
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Illustration: Gustave Doré from Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”
"The Mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
—John Milton, Paradise Lost
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Photograph: Todd Hido, #6093, 2008-2010 — from the book "A Road Divided."
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going,
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,
though I may know nothing about it.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
—Thomas Merton
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