The Magic of the Cities.

Zen promotes the rediscovery of the obvious, which is so often lost in its familiarity and simplicity. It sees the miraculous in the common and magic in our everyday surroundings. When we are not rushed, and our minds are unclouded by conceptualizations, a veil will sometimes drop, introducing the viewer to a world unseen since childhood. ~ John Greer

Showing posts with label Jacaranda tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacaranda tree. Show all posts

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Jacaranda


“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
― William Blake


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Friday, March 21, 2014

Spring Again


“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Mar 21, 2014

This week's challenge:
'Flowering'.

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Urban Tree

Jacaranda


There’s no one like you. And there will be no one
like you after you’re gone.
Prem Rawat


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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Whispering


When you realize how perfect everything is,
you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
~Buddha

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Monday, April 25, 2011

Jacaranda Dance


In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "… most of our energy goes into upholding our importance… if we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us.  One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two we would provide ourselves with enough energy to ... catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe."

The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures.  And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor.  As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.

For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart.There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length.And there I travel—looking, looking, breathlessly.

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

"I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself." - Don Juan
(from Carlos Castaneda readings)


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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Moment of Light


Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you possess light within, you see it externally.
~Anaïs Nin

An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.
~James Michener


Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
~Galileo

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Kaleidoscopic Spring


What do you see?

Jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The genus name is also used as the common name. In many parts of the world, such as Mexico and Zimbabwe, the blooming of this tree is welcomed as a sign of spring.[Wiki]

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