My favorite quotes:

"The ideal of beauty is tranquility and simplicity"
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I don´t search - I find!"
Pablo Picasso

""Auge um Auge führt nur dazu dass die Welt erblindet.""
"Ich bin so weit gereist und bin doch nur wieder zu Hause angekommen."
Mahatma Gandhi

Music: Yanni "Reason for rainbows"
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I did find the following beautiful text in a blog with one of my photos and even if I am a Pantheist (or all the more because...), I want to bring it here:

"The Helix Of Beauty"

The Helix of Beauty

"A few years ago, John O'Donohue wrote a book entitled Beauty:
The Invisible Embrace, a meditative discourse on the nature of beauty and how it awakens all that is noble in the human heart.
I am going to share with you a section in which he comments on a famous piece of Celtic poetry.
The Celtic Imagination often expressed spiritual insight in poetic form, as in 'The Deer's Cry' from The Confession of St Patrick:

I arise today
through strength in the sky:
light of sun
moon's reflection
dazzle of fire
speed of lightning
wild wind
deep sea
firm earth
hard rock.

I arise today
With God's strength to pilot me:
God's might to uphold me
God's wisdom to guide me
God's eye to look ahead for me
God's ear to hear me
God's word to speak for me
God's hand to defend me
God's way to lie before me
God's shield to protect me
God's host to safeguard me.

(translated by John Skinner)

For the Celtic Imagination all of these images held a numinous and sacred resonance.
This poem evokes the beauty of creation and the beauty of God as a single helix of presence.
At its deepest level, beauty holds everything together as one pervasive presence.
Nature and self have beauty because they participate in and express the presence of the one who is beautiful to know, the one whose fiery passion creates, sustains and welcomes everything.
The incantatory 'I arise' brings out the mystery of awakening. The self does not awaken to find itself trapped in an isolated subjectivity, rather it awakens to ultimate participation; it is a living threshold between nature and divinity, a presence that is wild, free, diverse and indivisible."

barefoottowardthelight.blogspot.com/2008/01/helix-of-beau...

Thank you to Barbara!!!

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