stranger

“Mother of Pearl.” Planthopper Phenax variegata. (x).

Takako Ugachi: 'Quatre Saisons' (2020)

the rats dance

— Trista Mateer, from “For the One Who Loved My Hands More than Anything Else,” The Dogs I Have Kissed

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

Yesterday’s beautiful morning over the Świder River. That’s the kind of fog I was just hoping for.

Japanese Wisteria (Wisteria floribunda 'Alba')

Text ID: the ultimate experience of love is a realization that beneath the illusion of two-ness dwells identity: "each is both." This realization can expand into a discovery that beneath the multitudinous individualities of the whole surrounding universe—human, animal, vegetable, even mineral—dwells identity; whereupon the love experience becomes cosmic, and the beloved who first opened the vision is magnified as the mirror of creation.

Text ID: There is only one way and that is your way; there is only one salvation and that is your salvation. Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come is created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

Ingmar Bergman on the creative process