Pieter Breughel (1526/1530-1569), Fall of Icarus, 1558
Musee des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
believe in your dreams and desires and know that there is absolutely no limitation for any of them explore your cosmic nature be your cosmic nature love is the ultimate power in which to draw everything to you let the universe be a mirror for your infinite potential love yourself for everything you are express your cosmic nature through consciousness, with words, intention, love and action and as you practice this more and more, you will draw more of the things you love to you give thanks for everything you have received in the past give thanks for everything you are receiving now in the present questions, what do I want? and who am I? new desires take its place, desires for harmony, a purpose in life what we need are guidelines that can help us through the day to day complexities, purpose of life, and inner harmony self realization, new information, everything is possible, in the realm of limitlessness questions, what do I want? and who am I? be your cosmic nature, and simply follow your breath until the rhythm of the universe becomes the music of your soul shine with your cosmic nature, and you will find the power more immense than millions of suns awaken to your cosmic nature, it is your natural state of being …..
(Source: hallucihoop, via alittleseahorse)
Pour a little salt
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall
I told you to be patient
I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind
—This is how I heal.
