The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

           W.B. Yeats

There are several kinds of love. 

One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. 

This is the ugly and crippling kind. 

The other is an outpouring of everything good in you

—of kindness and consideration and respect—

not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition 

of another person as unique and valuable. 

The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had…

John Steinbeck’s love advice to his son. 

We all participate to the creation. 

We are all kings, poets, musicians ; 

it resides in opening like a lotus to discover what is within us.

Henry Miller 

In a way, you are poetry material; 

You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. 

Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust 

in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

Franz Kafka, Letters To Milena 

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We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy.

Alan Watts

Rachel Garrard

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            And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

                              Libba Bray 

Giorgio Cecchinato, Memories of the Thirst (2011)

"Our heart survives between

hammers, just as the tongue between

the teeth is still able to praise."

Rilke, Duino Elegy 9

sam winston's typographic art

What Sam Winston doesn’t know about text and experimental typography isn’t worth knowing. The London-based artist and educator has spent his working life examining the way we approach all manner of literary artefacts, from giant dictionaries to the works of William Shakespeare, finding new and innovative ways for his audience to engage with text in a visually intuitive fashion. For an upcoming show at the V&A, Sam has been commissioned to produce work in response to a specially written piece by the author Hari Kunzru, illustrating the text in a fashion that references mankind’s worship of the periodic table through a combination of western scientific symbolism and eastern religious geometry. The final works are totemic slabs of zinc, deeply etched with Sam’s trademark typographic flair.

Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace runs at the V&A from 18 June – 20 October 2013.

S W -HERO

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. 

It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.

Maybe the star doesn’t even exist any more. 

Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

Murakami 

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Tie Your Heart At Night To Mine, Love

by Pablo Neruda

Tie your heart at night to mine, love,

and both will defeat the darkness

like twin drums beating in the forest

against the heavy wall of wet leaves.

Night crossing: black coal of dream

that cuts the thread of earthly orbs

with the punctuality of a headlong train

that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly.

Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement,

to the grip on life that beats in your breast,

with the wings of a submerged swan,

So that our dream might reply

to the sky’s questioning stars

with one key, one door closed to shadow.

 http://allpoetry.com/poem/8496997-Tie_Your_Heart_At_Night_To_Mine__Love_-by-Pablo_Neruda

If it’s meant for you, you won’t have to beg for it. 

You will never have to sacrifice your dignity for your destiny.

 Chelsis Porter

The chemistry of mind is different from the chemistry of love.

 The mind is careful, suspicious, he advances little by little. 

He advices “Be careful, protect yourself” Whereas love says “Let yourself, go!” 

The mind is strong, never fells down, while love hurts itself, fells into ruins.

Shams Tabrizi

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I don’t have to be anything at all. I don’t even have to be myself, 

because there is no such thing as not being myself. 

I am inescapably myself.

 Mooji

The Goddess remembered ...

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. 

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

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 Christopher McCandless

Flaubert once dreamed of writing a book about nothing, a book without content, ‘a book that would be held together by itself, by the internal force of its style just as the Earth is suspended in the air without any support.’

Georgi Gospodinov, Natural Novel  

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.

 Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Book of Hours 

But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, 

a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, 

a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, 

a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play—

 I tell you, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.

 Oscar Wilde 

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Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. 

Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation!

Rumi

Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. 

Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls.

 Be one, see one.

Ram Dass 

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It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, 

waiting to run into each other in a hallway.

 Sofia Coppola (explaining what Lost In Translation is about)

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Exhibition at the U ART GALLERY

Lovely monday morning

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“Most things break instead of transform because they resist. The quiet miracle of love is that without our interference, it, like water, accepts whatever is tossed or dropped or placed into it, embracing it completely.” 

“Of course, we are human and are easily hurt if not loved back or if loved poorly. But we waste so much of life’s energy deliberating who and what shall be worthy of our love when in the deepest elemental sense, these choices are not in our province, anymore than rain can choose what it shall fall upon.”

“Certainly we need to make decisions: Who will I spend my time with? Who will I learn from? Who will I live with? Who will I marry? But beneath all that, the element of love doesn’t stop being elemental. It does not stop covering everything before it. And over a lifetime, the pain of withholding this great and quiet force is more damaging than the pain of being rejected or loved poorly.”

“For love, like water can be dammed, but toward what end?”

“In truth, the more we let love flow through, the more we have to love. This is the inner glow that sages and saints of all ages seem to share: the wash of their love over everything before them; not just people, but birds and rocks and flowers and air.”

“Beneath the many choices we have to make, love, like water, flows back into the world through us. It is the one great secret available to all. Yet somewhere the misperception has been enshrined that to withhold love will stop hurt. In truth, it is the other way around. As water soaks scars, love soothes our wounds.”

“If opened up to, love will accept the angrily thrown stone, and our small tears will  lose some of their burn inthe great ocean of tears, and the arrow released to the bottom of the river will lose its point.”

Mark Nepo from The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

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A great door opens every time we walk our own way.

 Not the way of the world, not the way of the other, but the way that is encoded in the bones of our being. It is not easy to open the great door in an inauthentic world, 

but open it we must. On the other side of the door, our real life awaits.

 There are many great doors to come as we shed our cloaks of falsity and embrace our deepest truths. Walk with your head high and your heart open. 

The universe responds to authentic transformation. Nothing false will do. 

Out with the old, in with the true…

Jeff Brown

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