…in order to know we must trust our ancestors – trust them deeply. Spinoza points out the fact that our knowledge of parentage and the date of our birth is, in fact, what he calls ‘knowledge by hearsay’.*
*cited:
The Bodhisattva’s Brain
Owen Flanagan
Tu Fu to Tao-Chien Across the Centuries
Gone in a flash the bright flowers.
Old. How I wish they would stay!
Why can’t these present things
Be back in our younger days?
Drinking – sets free the mind
Writing – unfolds the heart
We would meet, Tao, in this thought
Though we cannot meet in time.
~Tu Fu (712-770)
Nostalgia To glimpse old abandoned barns that dot county roads often awaken memories of a childhood filled with the freedom to roam from dawn to dusk without a morsel of worry.
Rocky Mountain Foothills
Prospect Ponds Natural Area…awakening
…the very essence of all alchemical work was a spiritual transformation, liberation of God from the darkness of matter. …alchemical symbolism describes pictorially the process of change from psychic sleep to awakening, and the stages along that journey. Jung found in this symbolism an illustration…he called the process of individuation: one’s gradual unfoldment from an unconscious to a conscious state, and the healing process underlying it.*
*The Essence of Jung Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism, pg 36
Radmila Moacanin
A reflected image within a pond…
submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s photo challenge: double
Nikon D750 40mm f/3.3 1/4000s ISO 100
This image of a collection of beard’s goats
is being submitted to a challenge posed by Musin’ With Susan.
creating meaning by superimposing one story onto another…so many after-images, after-thoughts echoing through my mind leaving me to grieve the fading day.
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears. …One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed. …And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.”
Antoine de Saint-Exuprey, The Little Prince
architectural layers within window reflections
…there is no where to travel. I’ve already arrived…nowhere else to go…it is only and ever the here and now.
~ Radiant Mind, Peter Fenner
a meditative journey 
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