SPIRITUALITY

Love

Posted on February 28, 2022 at 4:16 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, FEARLESS, LOVE, POETRY, SPIRITUALITY

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi John William Waterhouse – Windflowers, 1902.

Journey

Posted on October 6, 2021 at 1:38 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ADVENTURE, AWAKENING, BECOMING, BUTTERFLY, FANTASY, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, LIFE PATH, MOONLIGHT, SEA SCAPES, SPIRITUALITY

“The only journey is the one within.” Rainer Maria Rilke Philipp Otto Runge – Arion’s Sea Journey (detail),1809.

Water

Posted on October 6, 2021 at 1:01 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, CALM, CONFIDENCE, LIFE PATH, SEA SCAPES, SPIRITUALITY, WATER, WELLBEING

“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.” Rumi Sir John Lavery – Ariadne, 1886.

Fairies

Posted on September 26, 2021 at 12:50 pm by Lisa Azarmi / BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CALM, DREAMING, DREAMS, FAIRIES, FANTASY, FEMALE PORTRAIT, FORESTS, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, MIDSUMMER, MOONLIGHT, NIGHT, OPENING, SPIRITUALITY

“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad….

Inspirational

Posted on September 20, 2021 at 1:27 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, BOOKS, CALM, CONFIDENCE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, GENTLENESS, HONESTY, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, KINDNESS, LIFE PATH, LIGHT, MOTIVATIONAL, SELF LOVE, SERENITY, SPIRITUALITY, WATER, WELLBEING, WOODBLOCK

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days… Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever…

Inspiration

Posted on September 20, 2021 at 1:05 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, ANIMALS, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, CALM, COURAGE, CREATIVITY, ENDURANCE, FEELINGS, GENTLENESS, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, KINDNESS, LOVE, MALE PORTRAIT, MOTIVATIONAL, PHOTOGRAPHY, PORTRAITS, SPIRITUALITY, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take…

Melancholy

Posted on September 15, 2021 at 12:26 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, ETERNAL LOVE, FEMALE PORTRAIT, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, MEDITATION, MELANCHOLY, MOONLIGHT, SERENITY, SOUL, SPIRITUALITY, WELLBEING

“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.”Rainer Maria Rilke Odilon Redon – Melancholy, 1876.

Trees are Sanctuaries

Posted on August 19, 2021 at 9:46 am by Lisa Azarmi / ART MOVEMENTS, AUTUMN, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BOTANICAL, FORESTS, HONESTY, HOPE, IMAGINATION, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, NATURE, SPIRITUALITY, TREES

“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life…”Herman Hesse Gustav Klimt – Birch Forest, 1902-3.

The Voice of Being

Posted on June 22, 2021 at 1:01 pm by Lisa Azarmi / ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, LOVE, MOTIVATIONAL, SPIRITUALITY, WATER

“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.” Herman Hesse, Siddhartha, 1922. John William Waterhouse – The Danaides, 1903.

Buddha meditations

Posted on June 22, 2021 at 12:41 pm by Lisa Azarmi / BEAUTY, BECOMING, BODY, COURAGE, CREATIVITY, ENDURANCE, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, LOVE, MEDITATION, MOTIVATIONAL, PHOTOGRAPHY, SPIRITUALITY, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” Buddha John de Mirjian – Marguerite Agniel, The Art of the Body, Buddha Position, 1931.

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