Soul and Senses

The way the soul is with the senses
and the mind, is like a creek.
When desire-weeds grow thick,
your intelligence cannot flow,
and soul-creatures stay hidden.
But sometimes a flooding comes
that runs so strong
it clears the clogged stream,
as though with God’s hand.
No longer weeping and frustrated,
your being grows as powerful
as your wantings were before.
Laughing and satisfied,
that masterful current
lets soul-creatures appear.
You look down,
and it’s lucid dreaming.
The gates made of light
swing open. You see in.
~ Rumi
from A Year with Rumi

For All We Loved And Lost...and For What We Will Love and Keep

"...We bless this year for all we learned, For all we loved and lost And for the quiet way it brought us Nearer to our invisible destination" ~ John O'Donohue from To Bless the Space Between Us

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To Understand is to Perceive Patterns

Imogen Heap - Wait It Out ~ For Joel Davies

Nature

So Nature deals with us, and takes away
Our playthings one by one, and by the hand
Leads us to rest so gently, that we go
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay,
Being too full of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Battle for LA's Murals

Behind The Wall: The Battle for LA's Murals from Oliver Riley-Smith on Vimeo.