Beauty Without Fanfare

The world around us

is not

what you

see

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It holds a

life-giving, gift giving,

invisible order

everywhere

& Always.

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it is an order of

musical

&

excellent beauty.

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It has a Mysterious

&

Radiant Splendor.

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Everywhere we

look, If we

Look

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…the Natural World is making

Beauty,

without fanfare:

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&

the work is

so plain

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intelligent , playful

&

Devoted

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that

there

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is

only.

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One

word for it

C O S M I C

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( words : Maria Popova

Location : Montego Bay , Jamaica )

Zen in The sea

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The voice of the

sea speaks to the soul…

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The wave Is free When

It realizes it Is Part

Of The sea

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In One drop Of The

water are Found All the secrets Of

The Ocean

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Limitless & Immortal, The

Waters are The beginning & End

Of All Things On Earth…

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When We Realize That we

Are The Ocean,

We Are No Longer

afraid Of The waves…

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We Cannot Control The Wind,

But We Can Direct The sail…

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Oceans are constantly

Flowing & Changing…

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If Anything

The Ocean makes You

remember…

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The Voice of The sea

Speaks To The soul…

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‘

( Words : Zen Quotes & Sayings )

Stillness . . .

Wait in the Stillness ,

until you get what

you came for…

~ ` ~ Bryon Katie

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Pure Ecstasy…

They are pure

ecstasy…

.

.

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They are like

bundles

Of

HOPE…

.

.

.

YOU just

Fall in

LOVE

with THEM…

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I think it’s something

deeper ,

.

.

.

more infinite,

more eternal…than

the ocean

.

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YOU

are a part

of

me

.

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.

LITTLE

One…

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.

A sense

of

.

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Complete

PEACE…

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.

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And then

my

SOUL

.

.

.

Saw

YOU…

.

.

.

Let her

sleep

for

when she wakes up…

.

.

.

she will

move

mountains…

.

.

.

Stories Washed Ashore…

Sometimes when I

think of life,

I feel like a

piece of driftwood…

washed up

on a shore…

only to

float away…

across an

ocean…

like a driftwood…

No address, nothing…

just no more

human…

A sea of possibilities…

Beckon…

beyond twilight zones…

( kovalam beach, Chennai, India)

(words from Harukami , Tuhin roy, Avinash , quotes…)

Crows- symbols of creation

Wherever crows are, there is magic.

They are symbols of creation & spiritual strenghth….

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They remind us to look for oppurtunities to

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create & manifest the magic of life.

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They are messengers calling to us…

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about the creation & magic…

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that is alive within our world everyday & available to us.

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words : Ted Andrews , Animal Speak

Ruins…

Take something irregular,rough-hewn,

off-kilter,incomplete…and it’s all the more desirable

for it’s flaws…

~ ` ~ Oliver Burkeman

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  A land without ruins is a land without
  memories – a land without momories is
  a land without history.
  
  ~ ` ~ Abram Joseph Ryan

• 

  There is nothing as dear as the
  sight of ruins.
  
  ~ ` ~ Joseph Brodsky

• 

  The ruins proclaim the
  building was beautiful
  
  ~ ` ~ Mohsin Hamid

• 

  Old places have
  soul.
  ~ ` ~ Sarah Anderson

• 

  Ruins are not empty. They are
  sacred places full of
  precence…
  ~ ` ~ John O’ Donohue

• 

  The life & passion of a person leaves
  an imprint on the
  eather of a place…
  ~ ` ~ John O’ Donohue

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  Where there is ruin there
  is hope for a tressure
  ~ ` ~ Rumi

• 

  What’s old collapses, times change,
  And new life blossoms
  in the ruins. …
  ~ ` ~ Friedrich Schiller

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  Ruin is when man-made
  has become part
  of nature. …
  ~ ` ~ Marco Casagrande

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  The broken eggshell of a civilization
  which time has hatched
  & devoured
  ~ ` ~ Julia Ward Howe

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  A ruin should always be protected but never repaired- thus may we witness
  full the lingering legasies of the past
  ~ ` ~ Walter scott
  

• 

  Some ruins of ancient times
  are much more beautiful
  than the best buildings
  of modern eras!
  ~ ` ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

• 

( Alamparai Fort..(ruins) chennai, India,

Alaramparai lies on the east coast called the coramandal coast,

served as fort as well as sea port in ancient tamilnadu.

the existing ruined fort and dock yard was built by

the muslim rulers during the

18th century A.D. )

ZeN mOdE 📿📿 LoCk dOwN diaries–1

 

 

Deep in

 

 

their 

 

 

 

roots all

 

 

 

flowers

 

 

 

keep the

 

 

light…

 

( words ~ ` ~  Theodore Roethke,  Flower:Crepe myrtle 💜💜)

Mother…

 

A 

Mother

Who,s 

Always

There…

 

 

Follow…

 

He who follows 

 

the elephants

 
will have no problem…

 

 

 

The Muse…

 

One must give himself completely

 
To his art and not hold back.

 
Throw caution to the

 
Wind.

 
Embrace the muse.

 

•~•    Harley King

 

 

Always Home…

 

Where are we

Going?

Always home…

 

 

Apply Within…

 

 

You once told me

 
You wanted to find

 
Yourself in the world –

 

 

 

 

And I told you to

 
First apply within,

 
To discover the world

 
within you.

 

 

 

 

You once told me

 
You wanted to save

 
The world from all its wars –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I told you to

 
First save yourself

 
From the world,

 
And all the wars

 

 
Through.

 

 

 

( words : APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem” )

Journey…

 

 

Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s

about un-becoming everything that isn’t 

really you, so you can be who you were

meant to be in the

first place.

~ ` ~ Paulo  Coelho 

 

 

 

The songs of trees…

We are all 

 

Trees…

 

 

 

.

The Green

  smoke…

 

 

 

Listen to 

it’s songs

…your own soul…

 

 

 

 

All our wisdom

is stored 

in the Trees…

   ~`~ Santosh Kalwar

 

 

 

 

..Universe in

ecstatic 

motion…

   ~`~ Rumi

 

 

Our most intimate

contact with

Nature…

    ~`~  George Nakashima

 

Grey Visage…

 

“ There is mystery behind that masked grey visage

, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty,

awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence

ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks,

great fires, and the sea.”

~ ` ~  Peter Matthiessen

 

 

 

Natya…(dance)

There will be no wisdom, no learning,
no art, nor craft, no device,
nor action that is not found within
natya.
        ~ ` ~  Sage Bharatha, Natya Shastra

 

 

 

Let’s Pause…

 

 

Too often in life we pass by
Important things.

 
Let’s pause, change perspective &

 
See things more clearly.

 
          ~`~ Sergio de silva

 

 

 

 

( Corbett national park,India)

In Rhythm…

Find yourself always…

 

 

 

In rhythm…

 

 

Even if you go out

 

Of step…

 

 

 

Come back again

 

…remember to fall in line again…

 

 

 

 

Remain with nature…

 

Move on…

 

 

 

(Words:Osho )

Let go…

 

When I finally learned to let go of 

 
             having to totally control everything 

 
                     around me and let my life unfold, 

 
                                 I was stunned by the results…

 
                                                            ~ ` ~ Geri Larkin

 

 

Wise man…2

 

A wise man once said

Nothing…

                     ~ ` ~ zen saying

 

 

 

Gift…

 

One of the more difficult paradoxes to accept

 
is that this abundance of gifts is always quietly 

 
present and it is we who drift in 

 
and out of seeing it…

 
 ~ ` ~ Mark Nepo

 

 

 

 

( Niagara Falls…) 

Fishing…

Every day is a new day.

It is better to be lucky…

 

 

 

 

 

but I would rather be exact.

Then when luck comes

you are ready…

 

 

 

 

 

To hell with 

luck…

 

 

 

 

 

 

I ‘ll bring the luck 

with me…

 

 

 

 

My big fish must be

somewhere…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As wave is driven by 

each wave…

 

 

 

 

The world breaks everyone..

and afterward…

 

 

 

 

 

some are strong at

the broken place…

 

 

 

 

 

 

But man is not made

of defeat …

 

 

 

 

 

a man can be destroyed..

but not

defeated…

 

 

 

 

 

Men go fishing all their 

lives..

without realizing,

 

 

 

 

its not the fish 

they are after 

(~ ` ~ Henry David )

 

 

 

 

Fishing is much more than 

fish…

 

 

 

 

 

It is the great occasion when we may

return to the fine simplicity 

of our forefathers…

( ~ ` ~ Herbert Hoover )

 

 

 

( Words: Ernest Hemingway )

Older wisdom…

 

Since we are the youngest children of creation,
our accumulated wisdom is young, too, and so I 
search outside of the tiny and fragile box of 
humankind’s insight and understanding for the
older wisdom, the more ancient and enduring
healing.

               …I have documented the rich insights and mercies
brought to my life by my animal kin…I write about

the empowerment of meaningful and healing
relationships.
Many of mine are with animals and nature.

                                        ~ ` ~ Susan Chernak Mcelroy

 

 

 

 

Enduring & Real…

To look for a form or search 

for a 

sound

is to stumble down the

wrong path .

The wisdom that cannot be thought,

alone reveals that which

is enduring and

real…

 

   ~ ` ~   Zen

 

 

 

Breathe in…

 

 

Breathe in with the deep awareness that you are a 

human being.

Then breathe out and touch the earth,

a non-man element, as your mother.

Visualize the streams of water beneath the Earth’s

surface.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See the minerals .See our Mother Earth, the Mother of

us all.

Then bring your arms up and breathe in again, touching the

trees, flowers, fruits, birds, squirrels, air and sky– the

non-elements.

 

 

 

 

When your head is touching the air, the sun, the moon,

the galaxies, the cosmos–non-man elements that have

come together in order to make man possible–you see

that all of the elements are coming into you to make your

being possible.

 

 

 

 

 

Breathing in again, stretch your arms and be aware that you also penetrate other 

elements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Man helps make the other elements possible.

 

( Words : Thich Nhat Hanh  )

 

Wildness…

 

 

The journey is into the wildness of your greater life.
The wilderness is your soul.
To merge with your destiny, you must locate,
liberate and live what is truly wild.
The soul is here to live its joy.

The uninitiated ego is here to keep things familiar,
safe and predictable.

Which path will you choose?

 

                                  ~ ` ~ Bill Plotkin

 

 

Things we love…

” We lose ourselves in the 

things we love…

 

We find ourselves there

Too…”

 

 

Alert…

Zen is an effort

to become
alert &

aware.
                              ~ ` ~ Osho

 

Sparkle…

I am pretty sure that

when we sparkle

individually, we

Heal + shine

collectively.

~ ` ~  Tanya Markul

 

Wishing you all a happy &peaceful

new year ❤ ❤

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who Am I …?

I am That  I am..

I am that which I have created myself to be.

                             ~ ` ~ The Gita

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am the answer you were not

expecting…

 

 

 

 

 

I exist 

As I am.

That is enough.

             ~ ` ~ Walt Whitman

 

 

 

 

 

 

Knowing yourself is the beginning of

all

wisdom.

       ~ ` ~ Aristotle

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many have an Image of me.

Few get the

picture…

 

 

 

 

 

I regret opening up to 

some people.

They didn’t deserve to 

know me like that.

    ~ ` ~ Gold-Kushkloudz

 

 

 

 

Wondering on 

myself,

by myself,

for myself…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am a thinker

Not a talker…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have travelled 

through madness

to 

find me…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t ask 

anyone 

but me,

about me…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am shy at first but…

I do the stupidest random

things when I 

get comfortable

with someone…

 

 

 

 

 

 

I 

hate being

Shy…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never have I dealt with 

anything more

difficult than my

own soul…

 

 

 

 

 

 

You don’t know me…

I put back my pieces,

differently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

( words: Internet )

They Heal…

 

 

The ways of these

gentle giants &

 

how they
heal us are
mysterious…

 

 

 

Heart seeks…

 

 

From the clamor of crowds I flee,
my heart seeks

 
The kind of silence that would

 
mesmerize speech itself.

 

 

                              ~ ` ~ An Urdu poem 

 

 

 

To heal…

 

Connect with nature..”silence the mind”

&the soul will know what to do 

to heal itself…

 

The soul always knows what to do 

to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.

                       ~ ` ~ Caroline myss

 

 

Healing doesn’t mean the damage never

existed.

It means the damage no longer controls

our lives.

                   ~ ` ~ Akshay Dubey

 

 

Healing yourself is connected

with healing

others.

                 ~ ` ~ Yoko Ono

 

 

Anything covered up

won’t get

healed…

 

 

It has been said “time heals “all wounds.

I do not agree.The wounds remain.

In time , the mind , protecting the sanity , covers

them with scar tissue &  the pain lessens.

but it is never gone.

           ~ ` ~ Rose Kennedy

 

 

As soon as healing takes place. 

go out & heal somebody else.

                     ~ ` ~ Maya Angelou

 

 

 

Mourning is love with

no place to go…

 

 

We do not heal the past by dwelling

there; we heal the past by living fully

in the present.

                                  ~ ` ~ Marianne Williamson

 

 

 

some days the memories still

knock the wind out of 

me…

 

 

Not all scars show

not all wounds heal

sometimes you can’t

always see the pain’

someone else feels…

 

 

Your own healing is a powerful

contribution to the healing of

everyone…

 

 

When you can tell your story &

it doesn’t make you cry, you

know you have healed…

 

 

They say time heals all wounds , but 

that presumes the source of the 

grief is finite.

                             ~ ` ~ Cassandra Clare

 

 

Sometimes your heart needs

more time to accept what

your mind already knows…

 

Soul tinged…

 

 

Music is a journey.

   Jazz is getting lost.

     

                     ~ ` ~ john O’ Farrell

 

 

 

Jazz is 

  Freedom…

                    ~ ` ~ Thelonious Mark

 

 

 

Don’t play the saxophone..

  Let it play you..

                ~ ` ~   Charlie Parker

 

 

 

 

If you ain’t got it

in you

you can’t blow

it out.

           ~ ` ~ Louis Armstrong

 

 

 

To jazz ,

or

not to jazz,

there is no

question.

              ~ ` ~ Louis Armstrong

 

 

 

 

Seemed to me drumming was

the best way to get

close to 

god.

                       ~ ` ~ Lionel Hampton

 

 

 

keep calm…

Jazz dance on…

 

 

jazz is something that you

have to feel

It’s something that you have

to live.

     ~ ` ~ Ray Brown

 

 

 

Life is about

rhythm.

We vibrate, 

our hearts are pumping

blood,

we are a rhythm machine.

That’s what 

we are.

                       ~ ` ~ Mikey Hart

 

 

 

The memory of things gone 

is important 

to a jazz

musician.

        ~ ` ~ Louis Armstrong

 

 

 

If you ask

what jazz is 

you’ll

never know.

              ~ ` ~ Louis Armstrong

 

 

 

My whole life, my whole soul,

my whole spirit

is to blow

that horn…

              ~ ` ~ Louis Armstrong

 

 

What we play

is 

life.

              ~ ` ~ Louis Armstrong

( Location d.b.a Bar, Frenchmen street,New Orleans )

Soul menders…

 

The way of these gentle giants..

&

how they heal us are

mysterious…

 

 

 

 

 

They are some of the most 

accomplished

&

accessible

 

 

 

 

 

healers we may

ever

meet…

 

 

 

 

 

there is power that resides

in the heart of

a 

species…

 

 

 

 

 

 

that..is 

exponentially

higher than ..the power of any 

individual…

 

 

 

 

 

 

The desire to know your

soul

will end all 

other desires.

                   ~ ` ~ Rumi

 

 

 

 

 

 

My soul is my

guide.

                     ~ ` ~ Rumi

 

 

 

 

( words adapted from; “Animals as healers “.. pictures taken at Kaziranga national park,India )

A Soul’s journey…

 

Art is the journey of

a

free soul.

                   ~ ` ~ Alev Oguz

 

 

take your journey

change your body

find your

soul

 

 

 

U don’t have a soul

you are a soul

You have a body

          ~ ` ~  C.S Lewis

 

 

 

Quiet the mind

&

the soul will 

speak

       ~ ` ~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

 

 

 

 

In a world where

everyone wears a 

mask,

It’s a privilege to see

a soul.

                       ~ ` ~ Anon 

 

 

 

 

You have a 

 

soul…

Born Fisherman…

 

 

You were born to be a fisherman as the 

fish was born to be a 

fish…

 

 

 

 

 

 

You loved him when 

he was

alive…

 

 

 

 

 

 

and you loved him

after…

 

 

 

 

 

Fishing kills me exactly 

as it keeps me

alive…

 

 

( words: Ernest Hemingway ~ ` ~ The old man & the sea )

Seeking you…

 

What you 

 

see

 

is seeking

 

YOU.

~ ` ~   Rumi

 

Artist…

 

The deep layers

 
of art contains

 
the soul of the

 
artist
                             ~ ` ~ Vladimir Kandelaki

 

 

 

Pieces of me…

 

 

I like the way

that feels…

 

 

 

 

It’s as if you know

me better…

 

 

 

 

Than I ever know 

myself…

 

 

 

 

I love how you can 

tell…

 

 

 

 

All the pieces, pieces, pieces

of me…

 

 

 

 

( words; Ashlee Simpson )

True path…

 

 

Truth is one

&

the true path is one.

 

 

 

 

It does not belong to

anybody.

Its nobody’s

property.

 

 

 

 

 

it is only one!

there are not many paths really.

Many people walk on the 

path,

but the path is one.

 

 

 

 

And it is so vast

they may not meet

each

other

 

 

 

( words: Osho’s teachings )

Ecstasy…

 

There is no greater 

Ecstasy

than to know who you

are

~ ` ~ osho

 

 

 

Art…

 

Art is both love and friendship and

 understanding:

the desire to give.

 

 

 

It is not charity, which is the giving

of things.

 

 

It is more than kindness, which is

the giving of self.

 

 

 

 

It is both taking and giving of beauty, the turning

out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness

of the spirit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is the recreation on another plane of

 the realities of the world;

 

 

 

 

 

 

The tragic and wonderful realities of earth

and men…

 

 

 

 

 

 

and all the interrelations

of these.

 

 

(words: Ansel Adams)

Wise man…

 

 A wise man

 

                         Once said 

 

                                                      Nothing…

 

Heart Wanders…

 

 

 Clouds heap upon clouds & it
         darkens…
        I keep gazing on the far away gloom
                                of the sky, & my

heart wanders wailing with the
restless mind.

                              ~ ` ~ Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali)

 

 

 

Silence within…

 

 

Lead the mind…

 

 

 

By the mind…

 

 

 

bring it to silence…

 

 

 

In the quiet…

 

 

 

 

state of mind…

 

 

 

when all the sound..

 

 

 

ripples cease…

 

 

 

 

 

The job is done…

 

 

 

( location: Eravikulam National Park , Kerala, South India )

(Words : Adapted from an article by  Bramachari Chaitanya )

Care about…

On GLOBAL TIGER DAY…

 
No one will protect what they don’t

 
care about ; & no one will care about

 
what they have never experienced.

 
                             ~ ` ~  David Attenborough

 

 

 

( At Kanha National park, central India )

He & I

When words run dry,

     he does not try,

   nor do I.

 

 We are on par .

He just is.

   I just am

   & we just are.

                          ~ ` ~  Lang Leav

 

Senses…

I smell with my ears

 

 

 

I taste with my eyes

 

 

 

I see with my hands

 

 

 

 

I touch with my tongue

 

 

 

I hear with my nose

 

 

 

I know 

I am in my senses now.

 

 

 

( Poem : Kabir das < location : Kodaikanal, a small hill town near Madurai, Tamil nadu, South India )