by Lisa Azarmi | Jan 24, 2022 | ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, BECOMING
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” Carl Jung – Psychology and Alchemy. Janet Fisher – Distant...
by Lisa Azarmi | Jan 3, 2022 | ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, INSPIRATIONAL, MERMAIDS
“The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.” Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy, 1308-21. Lord Frederic...
by Lisa Azarmi | Jan 3, 2022 | ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, COMMUNICATION, FEMALE PORTRAIT, PHILOSOPHY
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”Carl Jung Norah Neilson Gray – Exotic, 1924.
by Lisa Azarmi | Dec 31, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, BECOMING
“We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we are not doing anything, we are wasting our time. But that is not true. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be what? To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be...
by Lisa Azarmi | Dec 30, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, HOPE
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson George Frederic Watts and assistants – Hope, 1886.
by Lisa Azarmi | Dec 30, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, BEAUTY, TREES
“Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”Gaston Bachelard – The Poetics of Space, 1957. George Hawley Hallowell – Trees in...
