Unconscious Reflections

Reflections and Symmetry, originally uploaded by |neurosis|.

"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony."

William Ellery Channing

Green Droplet

Wide Awake

purple abstract tulip covered in snow, originally uploaded by David Bukach.

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Howard Thurman

Afternoon Purple by P. Moody

Willful Peace

BLUE LINE Abstract Painting by Marinho, originally uploaded by RegiaArt.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Ghandi

No Matter

Calm is an art
best practiced no matter
the circumstance

Strength As Such

Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower
We will grieve not, but rather find
Strength in what remains behind.

William Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality


Fields: Marilyn Fenn
Soft and Purple at BigSur: Claire W

And They Flew

“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We're afraid.”
“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We will fall!”
“Come to the edge.”
And they came. And he pushed them.

And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

BirdSong by Taetzsch
Red Bird by Peter Hiller *highly recommended link