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Self Love

Posted on March 28, 2022 at 4:28 pm by / ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING

“Let someone love you the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is…

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True Love

Posted on January 21, 2022 at 3:11 pm by / BEAUTY, BECOMING, LOVE

“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyondany experience, your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose methough i have closed myself as fingers,you open always petal by petal myself…

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Mysteries

Posted on January 17, 2022 at 5:30 pm by / ALCHEMY, AWAKENING, BEAUTY

“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.” Theodore Roethke – Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke. Joan Brull – Crepuscle, 1899.

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Garden

Posted on January 16, 2022 at 2:23 pm by / AWAKENING, BEAUTY, GARDEN

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret Garden. Egon Schiele – House with a Bay Window in the Garden, 1907.

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Love

Posted on January 6, 2022 at 1:07 pm by / AWAKENING, BEAUTY, LIGHT, LOVE

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” Rumi Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Beatrice Portinari.

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Blooming

Posted on January 5, 2022 at 2:33 pm by / AWAKENING, BEAUTY, BECOMING

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colours, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”Rainer Maria Rilke  Galileo Chini – La primavera che perennemente si rinnova, 1914.

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Moving Space

Posted on December 30, 2021 at 1:57 pm by / 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 Winter Snow Shadows, 1910.

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Creativity

Posted on December 30, 2021 at 1:38 pm by / BEAUTY, BECOMING, CREATIVITY

“The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.” Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha – Winter, 1900.

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