"What unlike things must meet and mate; A flame to melt—a wind to freeze; Sad patience—joyous energies; Humility—yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity—reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob’s mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel—Art." — Herman Melville #art #quote

This is the true joy in life: being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. — GB Shaw #literature #quotes

Two aphorisms that I return to, by the wonderful poet, aphorist & human being, James Richardson, author of Interglacial. “Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like... a stone warming. ✨ Writer: how books read each other.” @npub1kt3h...5004 #books #bookstodon #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #reading

‘I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure Soul. Love has befriended me so completely it has turned to ash and freed me of every concept and image my mind has ever known.’ — Hafiz #truth #love #soul #goodmorning #quotes

‘The more my knowledge increases, the more I increase in knowledge of my learned ignorance.' — Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri, Syrian poet/philosopher (973-1057) #knowledge #philosophy #history #Syria #quotes #wisdom

A person is not a thing or a process but an opening through which the Absolute manifests. — Martin Heidegger ✨ Gamble everything for Love... If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty. — Rumi #Love #God

"#Love bade me welcome..." #poetry #spirituality

#Hurricane preparations... #bloomscrolling #flowers #photography #beauty

"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness." — Frost ✨ "The truly free man is he who bears the load of the bond slave patiently." — Gibran #freedom #quotes #gratitude #faith #life

#supermoon The moon quickly hid behind clouds when I stepped out to greet her She knows I've not been faithful and will not squander her Light. The moon is back at my balcony Neither bashful, nor reproachful She doesn’t care who looks at her She’s full of her own Beauty #moon #bluemoon #poetry #video #writing #WritingCommunity #spirituality #inspiration

Our days-old calf can now stand upright & walk 🐄 🐮 #farming #farm #nature #colombia #animals #video #family #children #cute #funny #love

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. ✨ Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. — Robert Frost #poetry #WritingCommunity #reading #youtube #video #mystery #love #hate #meditation

19th Century French Bronze of a Snake Charmer, by Charles Arthur Bourgeois #art #artist #artwork #sculpture

#art by #artist Jenny Holzer #streetphotography #streetart

Home no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark… no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear saying- leave, run away from me now i dont know what i’ve become but i know that anywhere is safer than here — Warsan Shire #refugees #Immigration #migration #politics #news #home #culture #video #poetry #reading

#Today's #meditation : What is permissible for others might be impermissible for you The Master is not permitted the mistakes of a novice.

Quarantine Notes

#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #microfiction #micropoetry #writing #WritingCommunity #SilentSunday

"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought." — Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) #quotes #books

“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. ... and in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near, I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. ... I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie." — Rilke (Bly #translation ) #poetry #mystery

'Some love the Whole and some love just a part, The latter from the Whole are kept apart ... The part's joined with the Whole,' I hear you say. Eat thorns then! They're joined to the rose, aren't they?' — Rumi, The Masnavi, Book One (Translation by Jawid Mojaddedi) #poetry #love

#Poetry : Blanca Varela (#translation : Carlos Lara)