SPIRITUALITY !
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We look forward to the first new Roses of the season. The first blooms are always the most beautiful ! This one was drenched by a dose of spring rain. The white rose is a symbol of Purity, Innocence, Sympathy, Spirituality. ... Early tradition used white roses as a symbol for true love, an association which would later become the hallmark of the red rose.
Always an extreme starkness, conducive to spirituality!
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Le dortoir des moines
Toujours un dépouillement extrême, propice à la spiritualité !
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Abbaye de Silvacane - La Roque-d'Anthéron - Provence - France
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.
Voici une salle de classe où fit ses premiers apprentissages, un jeune homme que je rencontrai il y a plus de 20 ans... Un jeune homme à l'écriture extraordinaire: un concentré hors du commun d'intelligence et de beauté.
Je suis heureuse et honorée de partager ici la lecture-vidéo de l'un de ses textes récents : www.youtube.com/watch?v=suwGbAHJcpo&t=2s
No howl can lift the morning fog,
No paw can heal the pain once dealt.
With heads bowed low, the pack moves on—
Goodbyes are hard, but must be felt.
El monte Sumeru es una montaña sagrada central en la cosmología hindú, budista y jaina, considerada el eje del mundo y morada de los dioses. Esta montaña mítica simboliza el centro del universo
Tucked away on Gun Hill at the peak of Penang Hill, the Sri Aruloli Thirumurugan Temple is a colorful slice of history and spirituality. Built in the 1800s by Indian sepoys and sedan chair carriers, this beautiful temple is one of the oldest Hindu temples in Penang. Dedicated to Lord Murugan, the revered deity of strength and protection, the temple’s vibrant Dravidian-style architecture—with its intricate carvings, colorful gopurams (gateway towers), and ornate pillars—celebrates artistry and devotion.
From its perch overlooking Penang’s lush greenery and sweeping views, this temple is more than just a place of worship; it’s a peaceful retreat steeped in cultural heritage. Whether you’re a pilgrim, a history buff, or just someone searching for calm amidst the clouds, the Sri Aruloli Thirumurugan Temple promises a timeless experience on Malaysia’s Pearl of the Orient.
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.
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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).
"I dreamed I was a monk who lives inside a terrarium then I was awake.. Now I wonder, Am I the man who dreamt of being the monk inside the terrarium or am I the monk dreaming that I am the man outside the terrarium?"
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Arul Subramaniar Temple is a well visited Hindu temple in the Gunung Cheruh limestone hill near Medan Istana, Ipoh, Malaysia.
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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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Shot taken at Yamuna Ghaat Near Kashmiri Gate, Delhi
A Young man taking his bath early morning in foggy climate at Yamuna Ghaat behind migratory birds and an a old man sitting in his boat seeing him at the top of head bird flying over there most beautiful movement feeling to capture this shot
Sunrise ~ Wat Doi Ku Kham ~ Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 200, f/7.1, 18mm, 1/200s
Beautiful cloudscape over the sea, sunrise shot. Lonely boats. Vung Tau beach, Vietnam with beautiful yellow sunrise sky, sun and clouds in orange and blue tones. Background and travel concept.
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.
Have a Wonderful Week End!
"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
„Was es auch gibt an lebenden Wesen, ob beweglich oder unbeweglich, ob lang oder kurz, ob groß oder klein, ob schwach oder stark, ob nah oder fern, ob sichtbar oder unsichtbar, ob geboren oder ungeboren, mögen sie alle glücklich sein.“