Wishing All A Joyous, Ecstatic Beltaine/Beltane
May Queen & Green Man at the Beltane Fire Festival, Edinburgh.
[Guillaume Gris]
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Words of wisdom from an urban fifth grader:
my heart, the universe
my mind, the stars
my soul, the sun
my blood, the moon
my bones, the world
my skin, the ocean
my heart, the universe
~ from J. Ruth Gendler’s book: Notes on the Need for Beauty
[Life As An Oracle: Interpreting Signs and Symbols]
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Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (French, 1864-1930) - Chinese Shadows, the Rabbit
[Guillaume Gris]
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“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
― Jelaluddin Rumi
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The Sea. The Crimea, 1908, Arkhip Kuindzhi
Size: 54x40 cm— with Ruslana Kovalynskaya.
[Guillaume Gris]
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"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Spellbound - David Harrison :: [Guillaume Gris]
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“She couldn't have told you whether it was because she was afraid, or because such a voice in the darkness seemed of necessity a boon; but she listened to him as she had never listened before; his words dropped deep into her soul.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
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