Eye

Calling Lakes Centre 24 (2013, 6.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – 

often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – 

in the eye. 

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

At the edge

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

The beautiful can exist at the edge precisely because it has nothing to lose and everything to give away.

Frederick Turner

Consciousness

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Consciousness is our second birth, the birth of our capacity to reflect upon and wonder about experience.

Christina Baldwin, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice