majestatic

Nothing essential is ever lost

“You see, #Socrates,” she said, “love is not exactly the desire for beauty, as you think.”
“Well, what is it then?”
“It is begetting beauty and giving birth to it.”
“I suppose you’re right,” I said.
“Of course I’m right,” she said.

- #Plato, ' #Symposium' 206e

Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way. Attention has consequences.~ Iain McGilchrist, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘌𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺

A rose can be many thngs

Gary Lachman

“There is something in us, eternally young, that can understand beyond this visible world, beyond phenomenal reality. But this one thing in us, eternally young, is lost by us in the world of objects and the external things of the senses ... [and] wastes itself ...”

~ Maurice Nicoll, The Mark.

Big sky

If you are working inwardly,
Nature will help you.

~Gurdjieff

Nature is more intelligent than you; she knows better than you which are the best conditions for your work.

- #Gurdjieff, Paris Meeting, January 16, 1944