Why are there trees I never walk under
but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Walt Whitman
Posted 3 days ago
The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere? Just realise that you are dreaming a dream you call the world, and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Posted 3 days ago
Watcfulness cleanses the conscience and makes it lucid. This cleansed, it immediately shines out like a light that has been uncovered, banishing much dartkness, … He who has tasted this light will understand what I am talking about. The soul is never sated with it, but the more it feeds on it, the more hungry it grows. It is a light that attracts the intellect as the sun the eyes. Inexplicable, it yet becomes explicable through experience. This experience I have known or, more precisely, I have been wounded by it; but it commands me to be silent, even though my intellect would delight in speaking of it.
St. Philotheos of Sinai, Forty Texts on Watchfulness, #24,(roughly eighth or ninth century), The Philokalia, Vol. III., page 25.
Posted 4 days ago
In June of 2009, a rare total solar eclipse blanketed certain portions of the planet in total darkness. Czech photographer Miloslav Druckmüller traveled to the middle of the Pacific ocean to the Marshall Islands to capture the incredible event.
To create the photos above, he compiled over 40 images shot from two different cameras.
Total Solar Eclipse Captured From the Middle of the Ocean
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