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“Gismonda”

This lovely color lithograph from 1894 is by the Czech Art Nouveau artist, Alphonse Mucha, and is titled “Gismonda”.

This is the piece that sparked Mucha’s extensive career. It was made as the official advertisement for the 1895 production of Gismonda at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris that was starred in and directed by the famous French actress, Sarah Bernhardt. Bernhardt is depicted as Gismonda, the title character, in a costume which the actress wore during the final scene of the play.

Bernhardt was so happy with the poster, that she used it as her official poster during her US tour of Gismonda the following year and began a six-year working contract with Mucha.

Read more at the source, including a synopsis of the play: https://www.myddoa.com/gismonda-alphonse-mucha/

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If you feel that anger there, don't be afraid of it. Feel it. Let it lead you to its source. That's a part of the healing process too.

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"I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief."--C.S. Lewis

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Spoken Meditation for Addiction: Help for Substance, Gambling, Alcohol,...

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This Be The Verse

by Philip Larkin

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself.

Copyright Credit: Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse" from Collected Poems. Copyright © Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. Source: Collected Poems (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse

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“I can’t live with a dream that I did not even try to fulfill.”

— Paulo Coelho

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Source details and larger version.

Archival advertisements reveal the trends of their time: here’s my collection of vintage ads.

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"Contemplating impermanence gives us confidence that our disturbing emotionally habits can change and that excellent qualities can grow in us."

HH The Dalai Lama, in "The Foundation of Buddhist Practice" LLCN 2017037684/ISBN 9781614295204

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"As a Buddhist, you may be able to use the Internet as an exercise. It is in fact a caricature of saṃsāra. Desire, envy, anger, illusion and emptiness are even easier to understand there. If you can learn to see the screen of your cell phone as a kind of complicated lamp where nothing is happening, perhaps you can also understand that the reality in which you live is a kind of openness where really nothing is happening. If you observe how your indignation or your desire arises because your imagination and the rays of light of this intricate lamp work together, you may also be able to observe how your body and the phenomena together bring about the restlessness of your mind."

- Erik Hoogcarspel

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Scultura di Andrea Salvatori

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