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When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posts Tagged ‘Eyes’
I am alive
Posted in Life, Quotes, tagged "Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alive, Beautiful, Beauty, Eyes, God, Life, Meadows, Morning, nature, Open, Quotes, Sight, Thanks on August 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Angel of History
Posted in Books, Death, Fiction, History, Life, Mankind, Painting, Passages, Quotes, Society, fate, tagged Angel, Angelus Novus, Awaken, Awaken the Dead, Catastrophe, Caught, Chain of events, Contemplating, Dead, Eyes, Face, Feet, future, History, Klee, Mouth, Painting, Paradise, Past, Progress, Skyward, Storm, Violence, wings, Wreckage on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Klee’s Angelus Novus, Uploaded by baotzebao
“A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the [...]
Passages
Posted in Books, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged Beauty, Life, Mind, Books, words, Moment, Eyes, Felt, Writing, Passages, Read, Simplicity, Complexity, Lifetime, Value, Wisdom, Unveiled, Abandonely on May 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by ryan loucks photography
Sometimes I write down passages from the books I read for the sheer beauty in which the words are written. Sometimes they are a mere three words and sometimes whole pages.
Sometimes it is the simplicity of the words that carry the complexity of a lifetime. And sometimes it is the complexity of [...]
Two Decades … and two years
Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, tagged Heart, Life, soul, window, time, Mind, Real, Perspective, Eyes, Sight, Twenty-two, Decades, Breathing, Waking, Sleepgin, Wishing, Dreaming, Era, Insha Allah, Birthday on February 27, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Photograph by Perlette
Twenty-two years of life today and I wonder how have I reached this point. This point in which two decades have gone by, two decades of life, of breathing, of waking and sleeping, of wishing and dreaming, of joys and sorrows – two decades. It hardly seems real that such a long expanse [...]
Untitled
Posted in Photography, Poetry, Ramblings, Random, tagged Chaos, Dream, Eyes, Far, Flicky, Lips, Madness, Photography, Poetry, Sealed, Serene, silent, Sit, Untitled, Witness on February 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Photograph by deborah lattimore
Such chaos
Yet these lips are sealed
Such chaos
Yet you sit silent
Thine eyes must see some far off dream
To witness madness, madness!
Yet sit so serene
By RaatKiRanii (K.F.S)
Ailments of the body…
Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, Random, tagged guide, Disease, Life, soul, time, Day, Home, Power, Willpower, Strength, Faith, bitter, memory, World, Beliefs, Emotions, Test, Light, Ailment, Illness, Terminal, Break, Perspective, Living, Moment, Blessing, Mortality, Bold, Enlighten, Immortality, Cheated, Angry, Vitality, Breath, Shrine, Sacred, Faithful, Souls, Guiding Light, Chaos, Body, Rationality, Reason, Person, Eyes, See, Hearts, Hearth, Depth, Seen, Felt, Endurance, Care, Salvage, Save on January 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by .tintin.
Ailments of the body are an odd thing, not in their occurrence but rather in their affect on us and our responses to them. Terminal illnesses in particular seem to have the power to make or break us. Our willpower, our perspectives, and the importance we place on life can be sourly tested [...]
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