Favourite pins from September ‘25
Words by Michael Meade, “We are all being called to awaken to the ways that creativity moves through us.” Photograph courtesy of Engin Akyurt on Unsplash.
Words by Martin Shaw, “Beauty matters, because it’s trying to lead us home.” Image from a painting by Carl Holsøe via Artvee.
Words by Thomas Merton, “To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.” Photo by Joyuma, via Unsplash.
Words by Hilary Mantel, “Ink is a generative fluid. If you don’t mean your words to breed consequences, don’t write at all.” Artwork courtesy of Fia Yang on Unsplash.
Words by Rick Rubin from The Creative Act, “Look for what you notice and no one else sees.” Photo courtesy of Greg Rokozy on Unsplash.
Words from The Self Slaved by Patrick Kavanagh, “I will have love, have love / From anything made of / And a life with a shapely form / With gaiety and charm / And capable of receiving / With grace the grace of living.” Image is a detail from a painting by Odilon Redon, via Artvee.
Words from The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula Le Guin, “Still there are seeds to be gathered, and room in the bag of stars.” Artwork by Jean-Francois Millet, via Artvee.
Words by Robert Kelly, “We sleep in language, if language does not come to wake us with its strangeness.” Artwork by Tiit Pääsuke, via Artvee.
Words from When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön, “To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.” Photo courtesy of Mousom De, via Unsplash.
Words by Lizbeth White from Poetry as Spellcasting, “It is true. The heart is broken less by pain, more often by the beauty we fear we cannot offer.” Image courtesy of Etienne Girardet, via Unsplash.
Rumi, “You must ask for what you really want / Don’t go back to sleep”
Dress for the job you want. Photo courtesy of Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash.
Words from Anam Cara by John O’Donohue, “The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure.” Artwork by Samuel Palmer, via Artvee.
Words from The Other Within by Daniel Deardorff, “And yet, no matter how grand or degrading the mask may be, it is never just a façade, it has a life of its own, it is a story. If we refuse to learn the stories of whatever mask life bequeaths to us, we will never understand what people see when they look our way.” Photo by Shayan Rti via Unsplash.
Words by Chen Chen, quoted in Poetry as Spellcasting, “Think of silence as a violence, when silence means being made a frozen sea. Think of speaking as a violence, when speaking is a house that dresses your life in the tidiest wallpaper.” Image courtesy of Paul Blenkhorn, via Unsplash.
Words by Francis Weller, “Touching wanting is touching loss.” Photo courtesy of Maksym Kaharlytskyi via Unsplash.
Words by Stephanie Mills, “Cleaving to beauty is of great sustenance.” Photo courtesy of Masaaki Komori via Unsplash.
Words from Anam Cara by John O’Donohue, “There is such an intimate connection between the way we look at things and what we actually discover. If you can learn to look at your self and your life in a gentle, creative and adventurous way, you will be eternally surprised at what you find.”