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Van Gogh "At Eternity's Gate" (1890), Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
"What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum."
—Vincent van Gogh
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Katherine Mansfield
“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.”
—Katherine Mansfield
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Photograph: Robert Mapplethorpe "Flower." gelatin silver print. Undated.
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love."
—Sophocles
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Photograph: Edwin Gledhill, "Carolyn Even Gledhill with Nasturiums," Autochrome. 1920
We are Wanderers
For we are all wanderers in the
earth, and pilgrims. We have no
permanent habitat here. The migration
of people for foraging & exploiting can
become, with grace, in (latter days)
a traveling circus. Our tabernacle must
in its nature be a temporary tabernacle.
We are wanderers in the earth, but
only a few of us in each generation
have discovered the life of charity, the
living from day to day, receiving
our gifts gratefully through grace,
and rendering them, multiplied
through grace, to the giver.
—Robert Lax, Mogador's Book, 1992-68/70. Thank you to Louie, Louie.
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Van Gogh "At Eternity's Gate" (1890), Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
"What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum."
—Vincent van Gogh
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Katherine Mansfield
“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.”
—Katherine Mansfield
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Photograph: Robert Mapplethorpe "Flower." gelatin silver print. Undated.
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love."
—Sophocles
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Photograph: Edwin Gledhill, "Carolyn Even Gledhill with Nasturiums," Autochrome. 1920
We are Wanderers
For we are all wanderers in the
earth, and pilgrims. We have no
permanent habitat here. The migration
of people for foraging & exploiting can
become, with grace, in (latter days)
a traveling circus. Our tabernacle must
in its nature be a temporary tabernacle.
We are wanderers in the earth, but
only a few of us in each generation
have discovered the life of charity, the
living from day to day, receiving
our gifts gratefully through grace,
and rendering them, multiplied
through grace, to the giver.
—Robert Lax, Mogador's Book, 1992-68/70. Thank you to Louie, Louie.
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