Artist Amanda Sage It appears that it was all a misunderstanding. What was only a trial run was taken seriously. The rivers will return to their beginnings. The wind will cease in its turning about. Trees instead of budding will tend to their roots. Old men will chase a ball, a glance in the mirror— [...]
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The Book of Monastic Life I,59 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Posted in Inspiration, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spirituality, tagged Beauty, Existence, God, Inpsire, Poems on January 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything [...]
The Black Sun
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Love, Poetry, tagged Existence, Poems, Truth on January 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Truth is when the heart grows cold enough everything disappears. Even the self is invisible (though the mind would prefer a word like “detained”). If you can’t feel anything the whole world is “detained” — our lives happening and unhappening at what seems a safe distance. But that is all a seeming, an apparition. There [...]
My Valhalla
Posted in Life, Poetry, tagged Existence, Lost things, Museum, Poems on December 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Image Locale Forget The Museum of Natural History, The Metropolitan or The Smithsonian. The collection I want to wander in I call the Valhalla of Lost Things. The Venus de Milo’s arms are here, she’s grown quite attached to them. I circle Leonardo’s sixteen-foot-tall equestrian statue, never cast, browse all five-hundred-thousand volumes of The Alexandrian [...]
Anais Nin Wisdom & Quotes
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Spirituality, tagged Anais Nin, Existence, Inspire, Quotes, Wisdom on November 12, 2009 | 10 Comments »
image locale And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We [...]
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