Magic, Pasta and Imaginary Gardens
…imaginary gardens with real toads in them
~ From ‘Poetry,’ by Marianne Moore
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No doubt very often man does not live a natural life. That is, his business or profession or responsibility holds him. Some work or some thought for the needs of the body, for bread and butter or any other everyday need, holds him and absorbs the whole of his thoughts, so that he becomes useless for the discovery of the beauty and joy and happiness of life.
Hence, as we see around us today, life is becoming so difficult and so full of anxiety and trouble and responsibility. From morning till evening man is just loaded with his responsibilities, toiling day and night. He has never a moment to think of the beauty of art.
Since art is the first step that leads man to the cause of art, how can a person who has never admired or understood the beauty of art hope to admire or understand the Artist?
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan from ‘The Art of Being and Becoming’
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How can silence be explained in words?
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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As long as you are completely trapped in your form identity, there can be no love.
