As I walked through the mist, a temple named Tranquility appeared before me. To enter, I had to forget my mind.

So leaf, and root, and every reaching vine Conspire in one slow ministry of green, For revealing, in their own changing shine, What never otherwise could well be seen: That deathlessness itself forever lies Folded in everything that blooms and dies. #vss365

The kaleidoscopic stained glass windows in the Lady Chapel of Winchester Cathedral #blueskyartshow #glass #photography #symmetry

We came for the fire. We stayed for the stories. For a hundred thousand years.

old books gutted like fish scales of knowledge tipped by the devil's hand

recharging nothing more but to the purpose of sending out vibes into this love affair with air and light #micropoetry #poetry #writerslife

A sacred symbol of life and spirit - absolutely divine via Archaeology Art. Silver-Winged Sacred Heart Censer (Sahumador) / Allegory of Pneuma. Place of origin: Mexico, c. 1750–1800 (attributed; uncertain). Medium: Repoussé silver

Hypnos, Greek God of Sleep, 1915 (British Museum) #Sculpture #Mythology

'Amethyst field' by Bernadette Hansford, contemporary textile artist #WomensArt

but just as a rose gives of its essence through its scent and its arrangement of petals, so does a love give an energy back to the return of the grace and of the beauty and magic, that was missing before. 🌹

To untangle daily creation, which all differently endure, we make ourselves a constellation out of the known figure. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Through active participation you merge yourself in the unconscious processes, and you gain possession of them by allowing them to possess you…The result is ascension in the flame, transmutation in the alchemical heat, the genesis of the subtle spirit. ~C.G. Jung

𝙽𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚜 𝚝𝚘 '𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚎' 𝚒𝚝, 𝙸𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚜 𝚞𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚝. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎’𝚜 𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎— #Earth🌎 🌤️🌱🤎

The Call by Remedios Varo, 1961. Source: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love

Snagged this from FB. This may make some people uncomfortable but I think it highlights just how far we've come from what's natural, from our relationship to the Earth that sustains us and our beautiful relatives we share it with.

Argentinian artist Claudia Fontes, Foreigners, 2016, porcelain #WomensArt

ㅤ Spiral — Lady Elisabeth Kemper, 1816 - 1852 ㅤ

to pause when there is nothing left but the heart #art #abstract #painting #humanart #heart #pause #poetry #haiku

We meet no Stranger but Ourself. — Emily Dickinson

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah

Odilon Redon #art Reflection (1900)

rejoicing in wild disorder refusing to blend in free, bold & vibrant all while wearing little daisy hats life stands around us #bloomscrolling #contrast #lookaround #photography #art #words #lifeisbeautiful

she’s carrying c o n t i n e n t s in the corners of her eyes her basalt bones are h e a v i e r than sidewalks they ask her to walk on their e g g s h e l l s they shame her for every crack #poetry

B r e a t h e . . .

While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away. ~Rumi

for all that words and photographs may capture, there will always be gardens they cannot contain #unspoken #photography

Shimmering light of endless wonder.

In the space between each breath I will keep the light shining until something in you remembers how to bloom #nohashtags