Fashion

MGB Roadster 1967. - source Classic and Modern Show Cars AU.

Marcos 1600 GT 1968. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

Rolls Royce Corniche Convertible 1972. - source Classic British Cars.

Rolls-Royce Phantom V 1961. - source The Chrome Lot.

Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I 1957. - source The Chrome Lot.

Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I 1958. - source The Chrome Lot.

Rolls-Royce Corniche II 1986. - source The Chrome Lot.

Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III 1964. - source The Chrome Lot.

1973 Buick Riviera

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Rolls-Royce ‘Chinese eye’ 1965. - source Classic British Cars.

Marble portrait bust of a man. 81–96 CE. Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1909 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248142

"Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more—more unseen forms become manifest to him." — Rumi THE HEART IS NOT A METAPHOR IN THE MYSTICAL TRADITIONS. IT IS AN ORGAN OF PERCEPTION In Sufi teaching, the heart , the qalb, is the seat of divine knowledge. Not the emotional heart of sentiment, but the spiritual center that, when polished and emptied of self, becomes capable of receiving what the mind cannot reach. Rumi's entire body of work orbits this single premise: that the human being contains within itself a vessel for truth, and that the condition of that vessel determines what can enter it. Purity here does not mean moral hygiene. It means transparency,, the removal of everything that distorts, clouds, or deflects the light. The Hermetic tradition described the same process through the metaphor of the mirror. A corroded surface reflects nothing clearly. The Great Work of alchemy was not the transformation of lead into gold, it was the refinement of the inner substance until it could hold the light without distortion. Calcination, dissolution, purification: each stage of the alchemical process is a stage of interior clearing. Jung called this individuation, the gradual removal of the projections, defenses, and false identities that prevent the Self from being known. The ego’s resistance to this process is precisely its attachment to its own constructions. It would rather be full of itself than empty enough to receive something larger. The elixir of Truth is not a reward granted from outside. It fills the space that becomes available when the heart stops being occupied by fear, performance, and noise. Openness is not passivity. It is the most demanding spiritual act there is. What would you have to let go of for your heart to become that transparent? ~ Pyramid Consciousness