SILENTIUM!

Speak not, lie hidden, and conceal
The way you dream, the things you feel.
Deep in your spirit let them rise
akin to stars in crystal skies
that set before the night is blurred:
delight in them and speak no word

How can a heart expression find?
How should another know your mind?
Will he discern what quickens you?
A thought once is untrue.
Dimmed is the fountainhead when stirred:
drink at the source and speak no word.

Live in your inner self alone
within your soul a world has grown,
the magic of veiled thoughts that might
be blinded by the outer light,
drowned in the noise of day, unheard …
take in their song and speak no word.

-  Fyodor Tyutchev, translated by Vladimir Nabokov

If this was the cover of a book, it would be called The Spectrum of Light Reveals Itself, Duality and Other Short Stories of Symmetry and Enlightenment.  I’d read it. ~Schmüdde

If this was the cover of a book, it would be called The Spectrum of Light Reveals Itself, Duality and Other Short Stories of Symmetry and Enlightenment.  I’d read it.

~Schmüdde

What we fear most cannot be seen.  It is not the dog we fear, but its intention.  It is not the present state we fear, it is the future.  It is not the light we fear, but the dark.  Fear is an invisible illusion.  So we must combat it with invisible faith:From the Christians: The LORD is my light and my salvation -whom shall I fear?The LORD is the stronghold of my life -of whom shall I be afraid? - Psalm 27:1 From the Buddhists: Mind is best recognised in daily life through identification with a compassionate Lama who is beyond fear.- Diamond Way Buddhism  From the secularists: Confidence. ~ Schmüdde [Image: Max Klinger, Opus XI, Vom Tode. Erster Teil (1898)]

What we fear most cannot be seen.  It is not the dog we fear, but its intention.  It is not the present state we fear, it is the future.  It is not the light we fear, but the dark. 

Fear is an invisible illusion.  So we must combat it with invisible faith:

From the Christians:

The LORD is my light and my salvation -
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life -
of whom shall I be afraid?
- Psalm 27:1

From the Buddhists:

Mind is best recognised in daily life through identification with a compassionate Lama who is beyond fear.
- Diamond Way Buddhism 

From the secularists:

Confidence.

~ Schmüdde

[Image: Max Klinger, Opus XI, Vom Tode. Erster Teil (1898)]

When Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was considering the philosophy of aesthetics in the 18th century, he thought of it as the science of sensations.  Thus aesthetics is not only about what you see but it is also what you hear, taste, smell and, perhaps most importantly, what you feel.

When Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was considering the philosophy of aesthetics in the 18th century, he thought of it as the science of sensations.  Thus aesthetics is not only about what you see but it is also what you hear, taste, smell and, perhaps most importantly, what you feel.

Portrait of a Young Girl, La Penitente - Pietro Antonio Conte Rotari (~1750) The penitent girl.  Humble.  Introspective.  More than just her posture and expression, the golden light exudes a deep spiritual understanding. 

Portrait of a Young Girl, La Penitente - Pietro Antonio Conte Rotari (~1750)

The penitent girl.  Humble.  Introspective.  More than just her posture and expression, the golden light exudes a deep spiritual understanding. 

The secrets of the universe are almost entirely invisible. Dione (pictured in front) is a moon of Saturn and the fifteenth-largest moon in the solar system. Made up almost entirely of water ice, Dione is denser than all the moons smaller than it—combined. It’s shown here as it transits Titan, the second-largest moon in the solar system and the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere. It’s also the only other object in the solar system other than Earth that has shown clear evidence for liquid at the surface. Although Titan is composed of rocky material and water ice, the temperatures are too cold there for liquid water to exist. The lakes on Titan are filled with liquid methane. (via NASA Image of the Day)

The secrets of the universe are almost entirely invisible.

Dione (pictured in front) is a moon of Saturn and the fifteenth-largest moon in the solar system. Made up almost entirely of water ice, Dione is denser than all the moons smaller than it—combined. It’s shown here as it transits Titan, the second-largest moon in the solar system and the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere. It’s also the only other object in the solar system other than Earth that has shown clear evidence for liquid at the surface. Although Titan is composed of rocky material and water ice, the temperatures are too cold there for liquid water to exist. The lakes on Titan are filled with liquid methane.

(via NASA Image of the Day)

But that’s what the real lie consists of, that’s the crime: lying to oneself, being in disharmony with one’s own truth, one’s own innermost knowledge of things, as revealed through one’s consciousness. Objectivity, in fact, means just this: to be in harmony with one’s own subjectivity, not to lie to oneself.
Eugene Ionesco, Fragments of a Journal (via invisiblestories) (via crashinglybeautiful)
We lose something when we don’t care for our culture.  We lose something more when we create culture that isn’t worth caring for.  The current popular export of American creatives is made to be disposed of.  We are becoming a nation of mankurts - people that cannot recall their native cultural roots and origin - because growing up admiring the beauty of Wal*Mart is an oxymoron. Print by Max Klinger ~1919

We lose something when we don’t care for our culture.  We lose something more when we create culture that isn’t worth caring for.  The current popular export of American creatives is made to be disposed of.  We are becoming a nation of mankurts - people that cannot recall their native cultural roots and origin - because growing up admiring the beauty of Wal*Mart is an oxymoron.

Print by Max Klinger ~1919

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I am mind.  The only known acknowledger of harmony in the universe. 

Mind over body.  Immaterial over physical. Leonid Rogozov Rogozov was a doctor who took part in the sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1960-1961. He was the only doctor stationed at the Novolazarevskaya Station and, while there, developed peritonitis (an inflammation of the peritoneum, the serous membrane which lines part of the abdominal cavity and viscera.) That meant that he had to perform an appendectomy on himself. Using only novocaine for local anaesthesia, Rogozov managed to successfully complete the surgery in about two hours. The signs of peritonitis disappeared and he was back to his regular work in two weeks. This is the most famous case of self-surgery. Rogozov went on to live until he was 66, and passed away in 2000.

Mind over body.  Immaterial over physical.

Leonid Rogozov

Rogozov was a doctor who took part in the sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1960-1961. He was the only doctor stationed at the Novolazarevskaya Station and, while there, developed peritonitis (an inflammation of the peritoneum, the serous membrane which lines part of the abdominal cavity and viscera.) That meant that he had to perform an appendectomy on himself.

Using only novocaine for local anaesthesia, Rogozov managed to successfully complete the surgery in about two hours. The signs of peritonitis disappeared and he was back to his regular work in two weeks. This is the most famous case of self-surgery. Rogozov went on to live until he was 66, and passed away in 2000.