Let me share my favorite in-story welcome message in all of #literature. It's spoken by Pablo in STEPPENWOLF by #HermannHesse (occasionally misquoted in translation):

"'This little theater of mine has as many doors into as many boxes as you please, ten or a hundred or a thousand, and behind each door exactly what you seek awaits you. It is a pretty cabinet of pictures, my dear friend; but it would be quite useless for you to go through it as you are. You would be checked and blinded at every turn by what you are pleased to call your personality. You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.'"

Another guy who upbraids/upbraided his readers a bit, huh? Though not overtly.

#transcendence

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At times I wonder if I upbraid my readers too much. Even if usually not overtly. But then I check out what the great WEATHER IS HAPPENING Weather Man is (always) telling his readers. Overtly. Reminding me how maybe we all should be upbraided more, not less... Yeah, it's a fine mess we've made! And no, I don't think Weather Man is only joking around. Not truly. #repentance #WeatherIsHappening https://weatherishappening.network/@WEATHERISHAPPENING/116256146311230496

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✨ Pure perception ✨

🪷 Clarifying wisdom from Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo 🪷

💛 What changes when you look again with a clearer mind? 💛

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo 🪷

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo 🪷

✨ It is our basic ignorance which causes impure perceptions to manifest so that everything appears as ordinary, suffering and defiled. We have to “clean the lenses” in order to see that what looks so ordinary is actually a pure realm of utter transcendence. — Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo ✨

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intertwined

“intertwined” song lyrics [verse 1]tech and culture intertwinedtech and culture raw and stealthevery day new tech sublimedfor your wealth? or for your health?every new wave, names are changedwith t…

beyond the event horizon

A quotation from C. S. Lewis

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]
An Experiment in Criticism, Epilogue (1961)

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Lewis, C.S. - An Experiment in Criticism, Epilogue (1961) | WIST Quotations

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself;…

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Orpheus, Odilon Redon

My education on Greek mythology is scant but there's an interesting page on Wikipedia about Orpheus. He was a musician so maybe a lute is indicated here?

I really enjoy Odilon Redon's work so much. There's something about color and texture and complexity that's amazing but it's not just that, there is always a relation to a figure or a scene which brings it into an experiential place for me. I am resting with my eyes closed, dead or dreaming, with whatever all that color and texture and contrast represents.

I wanted to note here that almost all of my art education has been on the internet and following blogs of other art lovers. I am deeply indebted to them for enriching my life, I want to keep that alive on the internet, this blog is about that. Thank you to all of you out there ❤️

#art #color #texture #contrast #peace #magic #transcendence #love #warmth #human #universe #oneness #orange

Heavenly Place in the Mind, Chalermchai Kositpipat

To me this really gets at a certain feel. Moonlight seems to have this delicate magic, the normal world is strange and quiet and beautiful. It wouldn't be totally surprising to turn around and catch a cat walking on its front legs or a fox trying to catch moths. haha

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