Amanda Joy
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"Supernumerous existence wells up in my heart" -- Rainer Maria Rilke
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René Magritte, "The art of conversation", 1963
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
René Magritte, "The art of conversation", 1963
Reposted by Amanda Joy
A Prayer by Howard Thurman, 1951
#HowardThurman
"As the sea gull lays in the wind current, / So I lay myself into the spirit of God."
#HowardThurman
"As the sea gull lays in the wind current, / So I lay myself into the spirit of God."
December 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A Prayer by Howard Thurman, 1951
#HowardThurman
"As the sea gull lays in the wind current, / So I lay myself into the spirit of God."
#HowardThurman
"As the sea gull lays in the wind current, / So I lay myself into the spirit of God."
Emily Dickinson, 1862
"And so of larger – Darkness –
Those Evenings of the Brain –
When not a Moon disclose a sign –
Or Star – come out – within –
The Bravest – grope a little –
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead –"
"And so of larger – Darkness –
Those Evenings of the Brain –
When not a Moon disclose a sign –
Or Star – come out – within –
The Bravest – grope a little –
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead –"
December 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Emily Dickinson, 1862
"And so of larger – Darkness –
Those Evenings of the Brain –
When not a Moon disclose a sign –
Or Star – come out – within –
The Bravest – grope a little –
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead –"
"And so of larger – Darkness –
Those Evenings of the Brain –
When not a Moon disclose a sign –
Or Star – come out – within –
The Bravest – grope a little –
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead –"
Henry Vaughan, 1650
"There is in God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness, as men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear.
O for that night! where I in Him
Might live invisible and dim!"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50441/...
"There is in God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness, as men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear.
O for that night! where I in Him
Might live invisible and dim!"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50441/...
The Night
Through that pure virgin shrine, That sacred veil drawn o’er Thy glorious noon, That men might look and live, as glowworms shine, And face the moon, Wise Nicodemus saw such light As made him know his ...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Henry Vaughan, 1650
"There is in God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness, as men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear.
O for that night! where I in Him
Might live invisible and dim!"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50441/...
"There is in God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness, as men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear.
O for that night! where I in Him
Might live invisible and dim!"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50441/...
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th century
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th century
René Magritte, "The art of conversation", 1963
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
René Magritte, "The art of conversation", 1963
Reposted by Amanda Joy
Happy birthday in eternity, Rainer Maria Rilke
"you have made the world. And it is huge
and like a word which grows ripe in silence."
(tr. by Edward Snow)
"you have made the world. And it is huge
and like a word which grows ripe in silence."
(tr. by Edward Snow)
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Happy birthday in eternity, Rainer Maria Rilke
"you have made the world. And it is huge
and like a word which grows ripe in silence."
(tr. by Edward Snow)
"you have made the world. And it is huge
and like a word which grows ripe in silence."
(tr. by Edward Snow)
A Prayer by Howard Thurman, 1951
#HowardThurman
"As the sea gull lays in the wind current, / So I lay myself into the spirit of God."
#HowardThurman
"As the sea gull lays in the wind current, / So I lay myself into the spirit of God."
December 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A Prayer by Howard Thurman, 1951
#HowardThurman
"As the sea gull lays in the wind current, / So I lay myself into the spirit of God."
#HowardThurman
"As the sea gull lays in the wind current, / So I lay myself into the spirit of God."
"Waters are rising
Forests are burning
Hearts always hurt more
While they are learning"
youtu.be/eOaslNbXcOI?...
Forests are burning
Hearts always hurt more
While they are learning"
youtu.be/eOaslNbXcOI?...
Regina Spektor - Birdsong [Official Audio]
YouTube video by Regina Spektor
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
"Waters are rising
Forests are burning
Hearts always hurt more
While they are learning"
youtu.be/eOaslNbXcOI?...
Forests are burning
Hearts always hurt more
While they are learning"
youtu.be/eOaslNbXcOI?...
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Cracking Codes
YouTube video by Andrew Bird - Topic
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November 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Reposted by Amanda Joy
But let the wings take root and the roots fly.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
But let the wings take root and the roots fly.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Howard Thurman, "Love or Perish"
#HowardThurman #love
"Our only responsibility is to love. Whether we are loved back, whether love becomes productive in ways that we can measure -- this is not our business. The nature of love, is to love!"
youtu.be/3t2AtErMO4Q
#HowardThurman #love
"Our only responsibility is to love. Whether we are loved back, whether love becomes productive in ways that we can measure -- this is not our business. The nature of love, is to love!"
youtu.be/3t2AtErMO4Q
Howard Thurman Lost Lectures - Love or Perish
YouTube video by Morehouse College
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Howard Thurman, "Love or Perish"
#HowardThurman #love
"Our only responsibility is to love. Whether we are loved back, whether love becomes productive in ways that we can measure -- this is not our business. The nature of love, is to love!"
youtu.be/3t2AtErMO4Q
#HowardThurman #love
"Our only responsibility is to love. Whether we are loved back, whether love becomes productive in ways that we can measure -- this is not our business. The nature of love, is to love!"
youtu.be/3t2AtErMO4Q
Howard Thurman, "Reconciliation", 1963
#HowardThurman #love
"There is nothing outside ourselves -- no circumstance, no condition, no vicissitude -- that can ultimately separate us from the love of God or of one another. And we pour out our gratitude to God that this is so!"
#HowardThurman #love
"There is nothing outside ourselves -- no circumstance, no condition, no vicissitude -- that can ultimately separate us from the love of God or of one another. And we pour out our gratitude to God that this is so!"
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Howard Thurman, "Reconciliation", 1963
#HowardThurman #love
"There is nothing outside ourselves -- no circumstance, no condition, no vicissitude -- that can ultimately separate us from the love of God or of one another. And we pour out our gratitude to God that this is so!"
#HowardThurman #love
"There is nothing outside ourselves -- no circumstance, no condition, no vicissitude -- that can ultimately separate us from the love of God or of one another. And we pour out our gratitude to God that this is so!"
Reposted by Amanda Joy
A juxtapositioning fate
Find our mutual coordinate
Moments of clarity are so rare
I better document this…
Deep Throat Choir, Stonemilker (Björk cover)
youtu.be/ZO8o6EE_G6M
Find our mutual coordinate
Moments of clarity are so rare
I better document this…
Deep Throat Choir, Stonemilker (Björk cover)
youtu.be/ZO8o6EE_G6M
DEEP THROAT CHOIR - Stonemilker Bjork Cover
YouTube video by deepthroat choir
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A juxtapositioning fate
Find our mutual coordinate
Moments of clarity are so rare
I better document this…
Deep Throat Choir, Stonemilker (Björk cover)
youtu.be/ZO8o6EE_G6M
Find our mutual coordinate
Moments of clarity are so rare
I better document this…
Deep Throat Choir, Stonemilker (Björk cover)
youtu.be/ZO8o6EE_G6M
An eyrie beautiful morning! 🦅🪹
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
An eyrie beautiful morning! 🦅🪹
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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