digital photo by LJS
Shadows of this life/our own sunshine
October 4th, 2011
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mountain and rivers
September 18th, 2011
At first, I saw mountains as mountains and rivers as rivers.
Then, I saw mountains were not mountains and rivers were not rivers.
Finally, I see mountains again as mountains, and rivers again as rivers.
- Zen proverb
Baffled
August 24th, 2011
It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey.
- Wendell Berry -
Without
July 28th, 2011
It is not unreasonable to look forward to a time when we shall see without eyes, hear without ears and talk without tongues.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Tour-ist
July 19th, 2011
photo taken at Lake Louise, Canada
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innen/aussen
July 18th, 2011
Die innere Situation, die man sich nicht bewusst gemacht hat, taucht aussen als Schicksal auf.
- Carl Gustav Jung
lechts und rinks
April 15th, 2011
lichtung
manche meinen
lechts und rinks
kann man nicht velwechsern
werch ein illtum
- Ernst Jandl
On the Japanese concept of ‘MA’
March 25th, 2011
Excerpt from the essay
From Shinto to Ando: Studies in Architectural Anthropology
by Günter Nitschke
Was bedeutet alle Schönheit der Welt?
March 5th, 2011
Was bedeutet alle Schönheit der Welt?
Wie zitternde Zweige, im Strom gespiegelt -
Das Bild des ewigen Gartens, der, niemals welkend,
Im Herzen des vollkommenen Menschen ruht.
Rumi
Returning To The Root
March 1st, 2011
Be completely empty,
Be perfectly serene.
The ten thousand things arise
together;
in their arising is their return.
Now they flower,
and flowering
sink homeward,
returning to the root.
The return to the root
is peace.
Peace: to accept what must be,
to know what endures.
In that knowledge is wisdom.
Without it, ruin, disorder.
To know what endures
is to be openhearted,
magnanimous,
regal,
blessed,
following the Tao,
the way that endures forever.
The body comes to its ending,
but there is nothing to fear.
Lao-Tzu
Password at Grain of Gold
February 24th, 2011
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