by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 25, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, CLASSIC LITERATURE, ETERNAL LOVE, FEELINGS, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, LOVE, LOVERS, PAINTING, POET, POETRY, SEA SCAPES, SELF LOVE, SOUL MATES, WATER
“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” Khalil Gibran – The Prophet, 1923. Konstantin Korovin – Hammerfest. The Nothern Lights – 1894.
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 25, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, AUTUMN, BEAUTY, DREAMS, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LANDSCAPES, POET, POETRY, SEA SCAPES, WATER
“To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.In order to arrive at what you do not knowYou must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.In order to possess what you do not possessYou must go by the...
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 19, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, ENDURANCE, ILLUSTRATION, POET, POETRY, SEA SCAPES, SELF LOVE, WATER, WOODBLOCK
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” Rumi Katsushika Hokusai – Feminine Wave, 1840.
by Lisa Azarmi | Aug 18, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, BODY, COURAGE, CREATIVITY, FEELINGS, FREEDOM, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, ILLUSTRATION, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, KINDNESS, LIFE PATH, LOVE, MOTIVATIONAL, PATIENCE, PRINT, WATER, 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 | Jun 22, 2021 | 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.
by Lisa Azarmi | Apr 15, 2021 | HOPE, INSPIRATIONAL, LANDSCAPE, LONELINESS, NATURE, SPIRITUALITY, WATER
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to...