"Suffering passes; having suffered never passes."
~ Charles Peguy #Botd in 1873 "We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive."
~ Charles Peguy #Botd

“Greek myth placed Pan as god of nature.His original place,Arcadia,is both a physical and a psychic location.The “caves obscure” where he could be encountered were expanded as the material recesses where impulse resides,the dark holes of the psyche whence desire and panic arise.” — James Hillman

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“Who are these nymphs of myth, these loves of Pan? ...

... many had no names; these “impersons” bespeak... the impersonality of the drive...

Of those named, there is Syrinx, a water maiden; Pitys, a nymph of the pine tree, was another... A third of Pan’s loves was Echo...

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... Reflection seems the aim as we proceed further through the list of Pan’s loves. For another was Eupheme, wet nurse to the Muses... Finally, the one who fully reveals Pan’s intention is Selene, goddess of the moon...

“I strongly believe in the importance of the scientific approach. Yet...the sciences have lost much of their vigor, vitality and curiosity. Dogmatic ideology, fear-based conformity and institutional inertia are inhibiting scientific creativity.”
~ Rupert Sheldrake “With scientific colleagues, I have been struck over and over again by the contrast between public and private discussions. In public, scientists are very aware of the powerful taboos that restrict the range of permissible topics; in private they are often more adventurous.” ~ RS

Deconstructivism is a movement of postmodern architecture which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building, commonly characterised by an absence of obvious harmony, continuity,or symmetry.

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry Architects whose work is often described as deconstructivist (though in many cases the architects themselves reject the label) include Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Bernard Tschumi, and Coop Himmelb(l)au.

Seattle Central Library

Remedios Varo. Spiral Transit, 1962. Oil on masonite. Remedios Varo, 1959 Exploration of the Sources of the Orinoco River

"Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul."

"Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness."

"Only the chaste are truly obscene."

~ Joris-Karl Huysmans 💎 #Botd 1848 Joris-Karl Huysmans (5 February 1848 – 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic, most famous for the novel À rebours (1884, published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature). He supported himself by way of a 30-year career in the French civil service.

Carl Spitzweg (💎February 5, 1808 – September 23, 1885) was a German romanticist painter, especially of genre subjects. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era. Carl Spitzweg

"Silence in the face of evil is evil itself."

"Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer 💎 #Botd 1906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential. Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, ...

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

~ Simone Weil 💎 #Botd 1909 "Joy is being fully aware of reality."
~ Simone Weil

Norman Percevel Rockwell (💎 February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades.

The Problem We All Live With, 1964
~ by Norman Rockwell 💎 #Botd 1894.

An iconic image of the Civil Rights Movement in the US. It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old African-American girl, on her way to William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white public school, ... ... on November 14, 1960, during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. Because of threats of violence against her, she is escorted by four deputy U.S. marshals; the painting is framed so that the marshals' heads are cropped at the shoulders. ...

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality...”
~ James Joyce “Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world,and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy...these [realities] alone give and sustain life.” JJ

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present."

~ James Joyce 💎 #Botd 1882 "Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it."
~ James Joyce

"Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between."

~ Langston Hughes 💎 #Botd 1901 "I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?"
~ Langston Hughes

"Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both."

~ Fritjof Capra 💎 #Botd 1939 "The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion;one starting from the inner realm,the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within."

"You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope."

~ Thomas Merton 💎 #Botd 1915 "The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
~ Thomas Merton

"Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy."

~ Franz Schubert 💎 #Botd 1797

Schubert by Gustav Klimt "My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best."
~ Franz Schubert

"I don't believe in God, but I miss him."

~ Julian Barnes 💎 #Botd 1946 "Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books."
~ Julian Barnes

Dōgen Zenji (💎 19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253), was a Japanese Buddhist priest, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. "But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home."
~ Dogen