7 posts tagged “water”
'The important thing about despair is never to give up, never wrap up and put away a sterile life, but somehow keep it open. Because you never can know what's coming; never. That's the great thing about life, the crucial thing to remember. You may beat your fists on a stone wall for years and years, and every consideration of common sense will say it's hopeless, forget it, spare yourself; and then one day your bleeding hand will go through as if the wall were theatrical gauze; you'll be in another realm where birds are singing and love is possible, and you'd have missed it if you'd given up, because it might be only that one day the wall was not stone.'
- Allen Wheelis, via Whiskey River - http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com
'I love those who yearn for the impossible.'
- Johann Wolfgang von Geothe
'For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.'
- Lewis Carroll
WHAT SHE WANTED
What she wanted was to return
to the original rainforest
hear water pushing
through the sapwood
and leaves eating light
as she wanted to eat light.
She knew her nature
was to be water, not wood.
She knew there was a grove
of vertical rivers
of roaring waterfall-trees,
and a grove of whirlpool-trees
with vortices she could dive through,
past the hollow years of her life
right back to the roots.
- Pascale Petit
via WhiskeyRiver: http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-she-wanted-what-she-wanted-was-to.html
- Susan Sontag
- Shards of Consciousness: http://www.shardsofconsciousness.com/bare-attention-reawakening-creativity
- Walt Whitman
--Oscar Wilde
Wherever you may be, enjoy some sunset today... xo - Citrine
The ancient Persian water goddess, fertility goddess, and patroness of women, as well as a goddess of war. Her name means "the immaculate one". She is portrayed as a virgin, dressed in a golden cloak, and wearing a diamond tiara (sometimes also carrying a water pitcher). The dove and the peacock are her sacred animals.
Anahita was very popular and is one of the forms of the 'Great Goddess' which appears in many ancient eastern religions (such as the Syrian/Phoenician goddess Anath). She is associated with rivers and lakes, as the waters of birth. Anahita is sometimes regarded as the consort of Mithra.
When Persia conquered Babylonia (in the 6th century BCE), Anahita began to show some similarities with the goddess Ishtar. Since then her cult included also the practice of temple prostitution. During the reign of king Artaxerxes (436-358 BCE) many temples were erected in her honor; in Soesa, Ecbatana, and in Babylon."
by Micha F. Lindemans via Encyclopedia Mythica - http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/anahita.html
