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The breath is spirit itself.

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Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.... Nothing outside can give you any place.... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

— Flannery O'Connor

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Close up of clouds in various Indian Miniatures. To see a compilation from 2016, click here.

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Romina Power in Murder by Music /Las trompetas del apocalipsis (dir.Julio Buchs - 1969).

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my Heart is a home and an altar for the Divine to reside

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Defendente Ferrari

Eve Tempted by the Serpent [1520-25]

UMMA

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“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres”

-Pythagoras

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The Seer is one who, ceasing to imagine what he hopes or fears he may be, has the courage to look at what he is. After all, in so far as mystical experience is healthily genuine, it is only superior realism concerning our nature. No wonder, then, that mystics tend to make use of the Mandala—the symbol which is also a map. Tantric kyilkhors or meditation diagrams, the Golden Flower of the Taoists, the elaborate emanation systems of Neoplatonism, Dante’s Mystic Rose, and St. Teresa’s Interior Castle, are instances.

The last of these is particularly interesting. St. Teresa pictures the soul as formed of a single diamond or perfectly transparent crystal, but containing many mansions, with God’s dwelling at the centre. Ordinarily, we live in the outer court, unhappily ignorant of what lies within. But when, by prayer and meditation, we turn our attention towards the centre, we find our interior castle to be immense. As we progress through its concentric mansions, a delicious sense of interior recollection comes over us; our breath seems to cease; we seem quite bodiless. At length we know a self-forgetfulness so complete that we seem not to exist at all: there remains only the empyrean heaven, a dazzling cloud of light, in the very centre of our souls.

No doubt the Saint intended this to be taken as a parable, a picture in space of spiritual things which are out of space. She and her nuns would scarcely have welcomed the suggestion that these concentric courtyards or mansions are located precisely out there in the regions where we are more or less human, and their centre is located precisely here at the spot where we cease to be anything at all, and Reality shines alone and unhindered. Nevertheless the Interior Castle is effective as a religious symbol because it is also (in spite of its designer’s conscious intentions) a diagram of what we are in cold fact, visibly, in this very room and at this very moment.

Whether we move into the next room, or go out for a walk, or shoot off to the Moon, we take this Castle with us everywhere. Its outer courts are always ranged about us over there, region by region, and we are always safe here at the bright Centre.

-- Douglas Harding, Zen Experience: A Western Approach

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it’s small joys saturday y’all let’s get it

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Communication via Symbols

The subconscious (surrounding consciousness) communicates in symbols because they transmit more meaning than words.

A single symbol - a serpent biting its tail, a cup overflowing, a tower struck by lightning - packs vast layers of instinct, myth, personal memory, and cultural history into one image.

Words arrive one after another; a symbol blooms all at once. You receive shape, colour, emotion, movement, spatial relationship, even somatic feeling in a single gestalt. That simultaneity mirrors the way unconscious cognition actually works: associative, multidimensional, nonlinear.

An archetypal symbol never exhausts itself under analysis; it keeps refracting new meanings as you re-encounter it in different states of mind. That open-endedness invites the conscious ego to keep returning, deepening the dialogue with the surrounding currents that generated it.

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‼️ PALESTINIANS IN GAZA ARE IN NEED OF ESIMS ‼️

PLEASE BOOST ANY CALL FOR ESIMS YOU SEE. WE CANNOT ALLOW GAZANS TO BE CUT OFF COMPLETELY FROM THE WORLD.

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