“Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.” LoveFeelingsWishGrowsReligiousCompassionGrowingTreeEmpathyEnlightenmentSeedsBuddhistCherishSympathyLove And CompassionAffectionateSowing Author:Je Tsongkhapa
“The compelling thing about making art — or making anything, I suppose — is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.” MenWorldLooksArtIdeasWarMomentsFeelingsSecretKnownTreeCreaturesArmyMereSubstanceTransformedNew ThingsCompellingFabulousMagicianArtemisLaurelsAthenaSwineSorceress Author:Audrey Niffenegger
“I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.” PeopleWellsI CanFeelingsSpeakSleepSunTreeWindGladIndianBabeGood FeelingSleep WellApaches Author:Geronimo
“There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched anything. There's a feeling of pleasure that many of us have in materials that have some presence before us, like clay and wood and copper.” WorldFeelingsWalksPleasureTreeMaterialsStonesWoodsTouchedShellsClayCopper Author:Jessica Stockholder