Consider the Lilies….

….they neither toil nor spin….

I’ve been lax in posting for the past year or two.  Sometimes words come slowly.  Sometimes what we see, feel, and hear cannot be written down on paper, posted online, or even spoken.  Sometimes all we can do is sit back and breathe it all in…holding it inside us…waiting for it to bloom.

 

“Trees are poems….”

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,

 We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.” – Kahlil Gibran

 

Between two gardens…

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” Quotation by Kahlil Gibran

To be awake…

“To be in time is to be asleep:

to be awake is to be in eternity.” 

 ~ Osho

“Of the Open Sky” by John Ruskin

Extracted from John Ruskin’s, Of the Open Sky

Modern Painters I, Part II, Section III:

 

“It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of all creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more, for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere pleasing of man is not answered by every part of their organization; but every essential purpose of the sky might, as far as we know, be answered, if once in three days, or thereabouts, a great, ugly black rain cloud were brought up over the blue, and everything well watered, and so all left blue again till next time, with perhaps a film of morning and evening mist for dew. And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever placed, however far from other sources of interest or of beauty, has this doing for him constantly… the sky is for all; bright as it is, it is not “too bright, nor good, for human nature’s daily food,” it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, it is surely meant for the chief teacher of what is immortal in us, as it is the chief minister of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought…”

 

(With special thanks to “The Cloud Appreciation Society.”   See link under “Favorite Sites” as my source for this post. )

“Ice-Flowers on the Window Pane….”

 

A quote by the existentialist philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855):

 

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony

in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers

on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.