Here are todays quotes paired with art, because in this busy world, we rarely have time to reflect on the inner, the hidden, and the little known powerful aspects of our human condition.
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
~ Khalil Gibran
"I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away."
~ Rumi
"Satan is not a spirit of destruction. There is no essential evil in the universe. Our present form of the devil is merely derived from the Greek nature god Pan.
As Goethe says, Mephistopheles, or Satan, “is part of the power that still works for good while ever scheming ill.” Satan is really karma, but he is more than that. He is the temptation from which arises strength. When the Mysteries were celebrated in ancient Egypt, there was an evil spirit called Typhon or Set who brought about the death of the good Osiris. It is the red Set that has given us our concept of the devil; but Set was nothing but the material world, the ground of man’s temptation, and also the environment in which he gains immortality through self-discipline. Therefore, Set, or Satan is divine opportunity; the world into which we come in ignorance but from which we depart in wisdom."
~ Manly Palmer Hall
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
~ Anaïs Nin
“Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!”
~ Marcus Aurelius
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
~ Mark Twain
"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."
~ Pema Chodron
With love,
Doc
This was a cool post with some nice art, thanks I enjoyed it! I shall follow for more such delights! Steem on
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STOPYou should attribute your images. You are making money off of other people's art without giving them credit or compensation. Public domain images are one thing but, It's really not that hard to research and cite where your artwork is coming from (in one case here https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/street-art/edge-of-time-drawing-by-interesni-kazki/ ) and it's the "woke" thing to do.