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Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Kurmy, between 1905 and...

Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Kurmy, between 1905 and 1915

Grzegorz Kowalski, Dollhouse, 1970

Grzegorz Kowalski, Dollhouse, 1970

"in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of..."

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in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how

in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)

in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if,remember yes

in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)

and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me,remember me

"

- E.E. Cummings

Charles C. Zoller, Rockport Sunflower, 1925

Charles C. Zoller, Rockport Sunflower, 1925

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

The inscription on the back of this postcard identifies this...

The inscription on the back of this postcard identifies this woman as the wife of a tour guide in Kairouan, Tunisia, ca. 1910. A person with thick, black eyebrows can see better in very bright light, and will be less likely to squint. Eyebrow paint may have had the same function as sunglasses, while accenting expressive eyebrow movement.

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Divine cow of Hathor at the Temple of Thutmose III in Deir...

Divine cow of Hathor at the Temple of Thutmose III in Deir el-Bahary, found by Henry Edouard Naville in 1906, inscribed for Amenhotep II (son of Thutmose III.), Amenhotep is represented 2 times: in front of the cow and as young boy nursing on the right side

"You are unconditioned and changeless, formless and immovable, unfathomable awareness and..."

"You are unconditioned and changeless, formless and immovable, unfathomable awareness and unperturbable, so hold to nothing but consciousness."

- Ashtavakra Gita 

"You need not get at it, you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go your..."

"You need not get at it, you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that, and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you."

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 

"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."

"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."

- Isak Dinesen  

foxesinbreeches: Sowing 31, Woman's Calendar by Teresa Murak,...

foxesinbreeches:

Sowing 31, Woman's Calendar by Teresa Murak, 1976

Charles C. Zoller

Charles C. Zoller

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"I cannot be satisfied until I speak with angels I require to behold the eye of god to cast my own..."

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I cannot be satisfied until I speak with angels
I require to behold the eye of god
to cast my own being into the cosmos as bait for miracles
to breathe air and spew visions
to unlock that door which stands already open and enter into the presence
of that which I cannot imagine

I require answers for which I have not yet learned the questions

I demand the access of enlightenment, the permutation into the miraculous
the presence of the unendurable light

perhaps in the same way that caterpillars demand their lepidoptera wings
or tadpoles demand their froghood
or the child of man demands his exit
from the safe warm womb

"

- Lenore Kandel, "Age of Consent" 

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Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

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