Beatriz…
“It is possible to know if one is happy by listening to the wind. It reminds the unhappy person of the fragility of their home and is enough to rouse them from their light sleep or some nightmare. To the happy person, the song of the wind suggests security and protection: the furious whistling of the wind announces that the latter no longer has any power over the former.”
— Theodor W. Adorno - ‘Dwarf Fruits’ [§ 28] - In: “Minima Moralia”.
(Artwork: “Wind from the Sea”, 1947 - Andrew Wyeth)
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Mariela Naplatanova
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“Then he showed me a small thing, the size of a hazelnut, nestled in the palm of my hand. It was round as a ball. I looked at it with the eyes of my understanding and thought, ‘What can this be?’ And the answer came to me: 'It is all that is created.’ I was amazed that it could continue to exist. It seemed to me to be so little that it was on the verge of dissolving into nothingness. And then these words entered my understanding: 'It lasts and will last forever because God loves it. Everything that is has its being through the love of God.’”
~ Julian of Norwich (1342 – 1416)
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“So attend wholly to the one thing before you. And the radiance of the entire universe will dwell in that one small thing.”
~ Gerald Grow
[thanks Ian Sanders]
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