I’m very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you’re working out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge. … Painting is a state of being. … Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
(via lulian)
You have to keep up the enquiry, ‘To whom is this happening?’ all the time. If you are having trouble remind yourself, ‘This is just happening on the surface of my mind. I am not this mind or the wandering thoughts.’ Then go back into enquiry ‘Who am I?’. By doing this you will penetrate deeper and deeper and become detached from the mind. This will only come about after you have made an intense effort. ~ Annamalai Swami
(via noornalini)
The true generosity is to give in to the presence of everything. ~ Albert Camus
(thanks to beautywelove)
Proclus commentary on Parmenides, the early 5th century BC Greek philosopher from Elea.
Frag. B 5, quoted by Proclus, Commentary on the Parmenides, 708
~George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss, 1860
The soul of man
Is like the water:
It comes from heaven,
It returns to heaven,
And down again
To earth must go,
Ever changing.
When from the high,
Sheer wall of rock
The pure stream gushes,
It sprays its lovely vapor
In billowing clouds
Towards the smooth rock,
And lightly received,
It goes enshrouded,
Softly hissing
Down to the deep.
Cliffs tower,
Opposing its fall.
Annoyed, it foams
Step by step
Into the abyss.
In a flat bed
It slinks down the grassy vale,
And in the waveless lake
All the stars
Feast on their likeness.
Wind is the wave’s
Handsome suitor;
Wind stirs up from the depths
Foaming billows.
Soul of man,
How like to the water!
Fate of man,
How like to the wind!
Carl Jung
Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype (1938)
They can be like a sun, words.
They can do for the heart
what light can
for a field.
~ St. John of the Cross
Thank you
Bernard Malamud (via wordpainting)
(well said)
