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White Chrysanthemum flower is a symbol purity, innocence and spirituality. This flower can be gifted to almost anyone you find to be an important part of your life. There is no limit when it comes to symbolism of this flower, and its symbolism is not going to send the wrong message to anyone you direct it to.
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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating over A$3 billion per year. 22972
Hirosawaike Pond locates in the northern part of the City of Kyoto. During the period of cherry blossoms, the pond illuminates its beauty and its reflection on the water surface. I fully enjoyed shooting cherry blossoms. It is almost ending. The city gets greener now.
Chiesa San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1634)
ROMA
Architetto: Francesco Borromini
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane es la obra maestra de uno de los máximos exponentes del barroco, Borromini, donde se adoptan soluciones muy innovadoras y revolucionarias con un espacio disponible muy reducido. Y el autor realiza un verdadero milagro al ampliar el espacio. La estructura de la iglesia es toda un movimiento continuo: la fachada se flexiona, cóncava y convexa a la vez. La planta es elíptica pero también es un octágono de paredes acodadas, imposible de definir en una figura geométrica precisa. Las paredes parecen estirarse en un continuo de soluciones ingeniosas al igual que la cúpula ovalada, que es única en su especie. Es un claro ejemplo de cómo la genialidad y la creatividad no siempre necesitan grandes espacios.
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San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane is the masterpiece of one of the greatest exponents of the Baroque, Borromini, where highly innovative and revolutionary solutions are adopted with a very small space available. And the author performs a true miracle by expanding the space. The structure of the church is all a continuous movement: the facade flexes, concave and convex at the same time. The plan is elliptical but it is also an octagon with bent walls, impossible to define it in a precise geometric figure. The walls seem to stretch in a continuous of ingenious solutions just like the oval dome which is one of a kind. It is a clear example of how genius and creativity don't always need large spaces.
Founded at Althof in 1171 and funded by Pribislav, it was a strategic move to secure his rule as a Christian prince. The abbey was destroyed during the succession wars after his death, and rebuilt at Bad Doberan, ultimately becoming his final resting place.
This is on my bucket list for my visit to Germany this summer 😊❤️
Roman Catholic diocesan clergy (priests and deacons who serve pastorally in parishes); Exeter College, Oxford; Portsmouth, England; Arbroath Abbey; City of London, England
Fifth day of Christmas octave 2022: Authentic Spirituality!
La silueta de la Iglesia de San Nicolás en el barrio de Malá Strana se alza majestuosa bajo un cielo estrellado, mientras la luna llena parece posarse suavemente sobre su cúpula. Una escena que combina espiritualidad, historia y el misterio de la noche praguense.
The silhouette of St. Nicholas Church in the Malá Strana district rises majestically under a starry sky, as the full moon seems to rest gently upon its dome. A scene that blends spirituality, history, and the mystery of Prague’s night.
Walking through the fields next to the village of Markyate in Hertfordshire, you might come across this. It is part of a memorial for a young woman who had died in 2016. The memorial has been attended to ever since. The place is important to the family. It is not the graveyard but the fields, nature, where you, as I did today, can hear the song of the larks descending. My feeling is that this is intended to be a place where the young woman can still be found. Where she is present, perhaps in the lark's song. Fuji X-100F.
...has a highly spiritual nature, deep emotions, and great creativity.
Trained in mystic, she knows that the veil of mist between here and the spiritual world is very thin during the period between the winter solstice , Christmas, and the beginning of January, so she comes to visit me :)
• Ein kleinerer Gopuram (Portalturm) im Ostteil des Sri Minakschi Sundareshwara Amman Tempels in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, Südindien.
• A smaller Gopuram (portal-tower) in the eastern part of the Sri Meenakshi Sundareshwara Amman Temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, South India.
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unsplash.com/photos/AxI9niqj_60 Roberto Delgado Webb
unsplash.com/photos/7ncPcGL60-s Damon Zaidmus
This Shaman is practicing a Mayan ritual in a Catholic chapel. Mayan spirituality in Guatemala is still very much a presence, particularly in the highlands, along with Catholicism and the more recent incursions of Evangelical Christianity.
Created for Art Week Gallery Theme's Blues & Purples challenge with Dream Wombo and my texture as the input.
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Guided by a Buddhist master, a monk is studying among other monks in a classroom from a monastery in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma).
Merton’s greatness in the field of spirituality lies in his ability as a writer to put into contemporary terms some very ancient and traditional notions about the human spiritual journey. His was a contemplative rather than a devotional spirituality. Of the latter he wrote to Brazilian Sr. M. Emmanuel de Souza e Silva in 1955: “The Holy Spirit prays in us, in these days, with groans, inenarrabilibus gemitibus, as we consider the poverty and superficiality of so much that is called ‘devotion’—including devotion to the Blessed Sacrament” (2.28.55 HGL 181).
-A focus on truth : Thomas Merton’s uncensored mind / Patrick W. Collins.
Vihara Dharma Giri / Tabanan / Bali / Indonesia
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“When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.”
― John O'Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
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Full Moon, the maximum expression of the Feminine, together with the maximum power of the Sun, symbol of the Masculine, the summer solstice.
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Taken at the Ambaji Temple at Gabbar Hill, located at a height of about 1600 ft above sea level in Gujarat.
The East Window of St Martin in the Fields, Trafalger Square London is a striking, site-specific design that unexpectedly warps a large church window into a visually intriguing abstraction. The installation, created by Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary, is located in the east window at Church of St. Martin in the Fields (Trafalgar Square, London). Reminiscent of a cross, the horizontal and vertical lines move towards a central opening that allows light to pass through.
The grid-like concept blends elements of religion with complex architecture, forming a monochromatic piece that produces a unique light experience. The window is held within a stainless steel framework composed of a number of handmade glass panels, each of which is etched with fragments of Houshiary's paintings to create a subtle feathery pattern on both sides of the glass.
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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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"If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a shrub in the valley---but be
The best little shrub at the side of the hill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
We can't all be captains,
We've got to be crew.
There's something for all of us here;
There is big work to do, and there's lesser to do
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun, be a star;
It isn't the size that you win or you fail
Be the best of whatever you are."
“Se non puoi essere un pino sul monte,
sii una saggina nella valle,
ma sii la migliore piccola saggina
sulla sponda del ruscello.
Se non puoi essere un albero,
sii un cespuglio.
Se non puoi essere un’autostrada
sii un sentiero.
Se non puoi essere il sole,
sii una stella.
Sii sempre il meglio
di ciò che sei.
Cerca di scoprire il disegno
che sei chiamato ad essere,
poi mettiti a realizzarlo nella vita."
Martin Luther King
if humankind ever makes the leap to a space-faring species, i wonder what will religion be like?
what is the religion of a people born in space? you cant extinguish religion, it fills a gaping maw in the human 'makeup'. we need to feel connected to something deeper, more magnificent than ourselves. religion is the calcified artifact of spirituality. we require religion for a moral bearing, if spirituality is anchoring upon a distant teleological endpoint, be it a perfect unity, a dissolution of the self, a natural path (?), a technological transcendence, religion is the methodology that accretes along that viewpoint. it is structure, ritual, boundaries, seperateness from the without. it is exposition and definition of the 'conception'.
you cannot extinguish religion, it is a consequence, a by-product of us. religosity wanes, however, as competing orthodoxies are dismantled or fall apart under the weight of natural inconsistencies. there is no perfect atheist. their atheism becomes its own structure. the hedonist becomes their own imperfect god.
i would suspect that the spiritual yearning would be greater in a space-faring culture. the wide expanse of null space would trigger a voracious spiritual hunger. the enclosed reality of space-faring would give rise to an intense clanish or communal experience that would feed the construction of a religious structure. no other groups to provide resistance, feedback, or cross-polination of spiritual concepts. no outside restraints. a bacterial culture gone wild .
spirituality (a basic human need for the greater, the more magnificent, the deeper) kicks it off, then religion accretes around it, like a coral reef. religion defines the path to the divine (whether that be a perfect unity, a creative principle, a dissolution of the self (ala siddahartha) or even the myth that science will reveal the natural world - and what is 'outside' the path, the unbelievers, the hells of the weak, ignorant, or irrelevant. eventually religion becomes a moral regulation and a political authority - and the spiritual origin is lost, like flesh from a fossil.