The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free. --Vladimir Nabokov The Ziggurat of Crestone © 2019 Katherine McDaniel
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Quote for Today: Leo Tolstoy
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And once a deep wound heals over and the edges seem to have knit, a wound in the soul, like a physical wound, can be healed only by the force … Continue reading Quote for Today: Leo Tolstoy
Quote for Today: Tanya Tagaq
We are our ancestors. The spiritual umbilicus is apparent to all. The dead look upon us with the pure love of a mother’s gaze. But the dead love us even more because of our flawed flesh and eternal confusion. The removal from form allows for total and complete unconditional love. We carry our dead with … Continue reading Quote for Today: Tanya Tagaq
Quote for Today: Bella Vespira
What is it about the Heavens that draws us to look up? For generations, centuries, (millennia?) it seems we are drawn to look up for answers, comfort in times of despair, with pleas for help, when we are in need of grace, and to give thanks. ―Bella Vespira, Evidence of Things Unseen Public Domain … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bella Vespira
Quote for Today: K.J. Bishop
But we modern demiurges are prolific copyists; we give few things souls of their own. Locomotives, with their close resemblance to beasts, may be the great exception; but in nearly all else with which today’s poor humans are filling the world, I see a quelling of the numinous, an ashening of the fire of life. … Continue reading Quote for Today: K.J. Bishop
Quote for Today: Rumi
Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours. ―Rumi Public Domain Image via freestockphotos
Quote for Today: Morris West
Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. ---Morris West