Live in awe.
Life is fragile.
Be generous with your light.
~ Richie Norton
Image: Metamorphosis | Hiroko Otake
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Robert Auer (1873-1952) - Allegory of medical science, 1914
oil on canvas
(Detail)
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“While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only the archetype itself can withstand such projections such as ever-able, all giving, eternally energetic. We may try to emulate these, but they are ideals, not achievable by humans, and not meant to be. Yet the trap requires that women exhaust themselves trying to achieve these unrealistic levels. To avoid the trap, one has to learn to say 'Halt' and 'Stop the music,' and of course mean it.”
― Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype.
Photograph by Francesca Woodman
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Mysteries, Yes
Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous
to be understood.
How grass can be nourishing in the
mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.
How two hands touch and the bonds
will never be broken.
How people come, from delight or the
scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.
Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
"Look!" and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
~ Mary Oliver
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Wanderings by Fredrik Jonsson
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The Breeze - Charles Borup - c. 1911
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“Never love anybody who treats you like you are ordinary”
- Oscar Wilde
Photograph ©Nadia Sarwar
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The Arnolfini Marriage by Jan Van Eyck, 1434
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