Meditation is the practice of looking deeply into the nature of your suffering and your joy. Through the energy of mindfulness, through concentration, looking deeply into the nature of our suffering makes it possible for us to see the deep causes of that suffering. #buddhism #thichnhathanh

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that. 🖊️ Jack Kerouac @artandpoetry.bsky.social ❤️ 💋

"I think that will depend on whether the people in the peace movement can be peace. Because without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace." #ThichNhatHanh #BeingPeace 🪡 2

“Refuge Before A Storm” by Pawel Jozef Marwart #painting #art #refuge

Annette and Angela, Lustgarten, 1982 by photographer Sibylle Bergemann #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

see you, babe 🕊️ 🤍 💐 #Catherine

#AlphabetChallenge #BonusDiptych 🎨 Eric Dijkstra walking #art 🎨 Alexandra Djokic people #art

Artist Steven Salvat #painting #art #birds

Artist Steven Salvat #painting #art #birds

Artist Steven Salvat #painting #art #birds

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Bird Snuggles into Photographer’s Chest And Stayed With Her for Warmth on a Snowy Day (LOOK) www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bird-snuggle...

'Snowfall' by contemporary painter and printmaker Anna Perlin #womensart

#zen #buddhism

"December Night" by the Japanese artist Rei Morimura.

" Kindness is like snow - It beautifies everything It covers. " - Khalil Gibran

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp Black Hollyhock Blue Larkspur, oil on canvas, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1930.

“So please, cultivate your beginner’s mind. Be willing not to be an expert. Be willing not to know. Not knowing is nearest. Not knowing is most intimate.” -Zenkei Blanche Hartman #zen #buddhism

*Tell me, what is it you plan to do * *with your one wild and precious life? * -Mary Oliver 📷©️ Amy Merrick

#GoodMorning, Skylarks it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations 🖊️ rupi kaur 📖 milk and honey

#GratiTuesday #ImageAndVerse Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson #January #art by Edith Holden

🖤 SUBMISSION SUNDAY 🖤 Untitled by Edan Curtis Acrylic on Canvas #beautifulbizarre #artcommunity #supportart #artinspo #art

André Masson, “The Landscape of Wonders,” 1935 #art #painting

Giorgio de Chirico, “The Soothsayer’s Recompense,” 1913 #art #painting

We can practice being gentle with each other by being gentle with that piece of ourselves that is hardest to hold.” *Audre Lorde 📷 Jane Goodall

John Nieto “Buffalo in the Foothills” #art #painting

Janet Sobel #abstract #art #painting

John Nieto “Handsome Coyote” #art #painting #indigenousartist

Hygieia by Gustav Klimt 1905 #art #painting #gustavklimt

wrapped in the gentle rain I hear your whisper in the still morning hours poetry slipping from you a ghostly web of silver settling around my heart embracing me strengthening me I close my eyes breathing in and out -Rod #poetry

Though we don't hear about them on our "news' feed, at this very moment several hundred million acts of compassion are being performed all over this wondrous planet. 🖊️ Fred LaMotte

. . . . intoku 🎨 #art Helena Nelson Reed

I breathe in I breathe out I feel the weight lifting and falling all the pieces swirling around me some whole some broken the hint of patterns waiting as I breathe in I breathe out -Rod “Meditating in a Time of Chaos” #poetry #meditation #vhaos

Nigel Van Wieck #art #painting

Nigel Van Wieck #art #painting

Nigel Van Wieck #art #painting

Zheng Fenglin #art #painting

Zheng Fenglin #art #painting

Zheng Fenglin #art #painting

Do not feel discouraged. Just by your way of looking at things and doing things, you influence others. Approach everyone with love and patience, try to water the positive seeds in them. We have to help each other, being skillful, kind, and understanding. #ThichNhatHanh 🪡 Love In Action

Julie Paschkis #art #painting #words

Friedrich Kunath #art #paintimg

Friedrich Kunath #art #painting

Friedrich Kunath #art #painting

#GoodMorning, Skylarks May all beings have happiness And the causes of happiness May all beings be peaceful And have the causes of peacefulness May all beings be safe And have the causes of safety May all beings be free of suffering And the causes of suffering. 🪷

“Art teaches us to mourn for strangers.” — Fredrick Backman Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Trees in Autumn,” 1920/21

The "Avataṃsaka Sūtra (Flower Garland Sutra)" says: “Mind, Buddha, and all sentient beings—these three are no different from one another.” (心佛及衆生 是三無差別) AND The "Nirvāṇa Sūtra" states: “All sentient beings without exception have Buddha-nature.” (一切衆生 悉有佛性) This is what we must discover.