by Lisa Azarmi | Feb 28, 2022 | 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.
by Lisa Azarmi | Oct 6, 2021 | 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.
by Lisa Azarmi | Oct 6, 2021 | 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.
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 26, 2021 | 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...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 20, 2021 | 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…...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 20, 2021 | 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...
