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Dazed, beautiful and bruised
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via
Created on 2006-07-17 21:30:43 (#10691326), last updated 2009-12-11
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Basic Info| Name: | frozen_in_honey |
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| Location: | London, United Kingdom |
| Website: | Flickr |
Bio21 year old muddle of a girl. Eng lit student, poly, interested in holy things, obsessed with words. Photographer who has featured in with exhibitions in America and Europe and a couple of publications. Loves people and socialising. Tea dresses, manicures, cupcakes, gloves and occult-punk are among the best things in life.
Words are important:
It doesn't interest me if there is one God
or many gods.
I want to know if you belong or feel
abandoned.
If you know despair or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared to live in the world
with its harsh need
to change you. If you can look back
with firm eyes
saying this is where I stand. I want to know
if you know
how to melt into that fierce heat of living
falling toward
the centre of your longing. I want to know
if you are willing
to live, day by day, with the consequence of love
and the bitter
unwanted passion of your sure defeat.
I have been told, in that fierce embrace, even
the gods speak of God.
-"Self Portrait" - David Whyte (1955 - )
"There's nothing wrong with safe. 'Safe' bakes bread. 'Safe' does not think too heavily. 'Safe' does as it's told. We all need 'safe' at points, and without it we wouldn't be here. When you were a child and you pulled the duvet over you to hide from the night - that was 'safe'.
Safe isn't spectacular.
If you really think you can step out and have effect without taking risks, without the possibility of getting your fingers burned, then I don't know what game you're playing. There is no safe word. It's the science of Hermes: mirrors, shortcuts and tightropes. If you're not willing to put the effort in to make sure you don't put a foot wrong then you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Look at the Fool card in the tarot: you either step off the cliff or you don't. No trepidatious half-steps. Give nothing and you get nothing. You take steps wisely, you don't kick dust in the face of angels, but safe? None of it's safe."
- Peter Grey
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.
Words are important:
It doesn't interest me if there is one God
or many gods.
I want to know if you belong or feel
abandoned.
If you know despair or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared to live in the world
with its harsh need
to change you. If you can look back
with firm eyes
saying this is where I stand. I want to know
if you know
how to melt into that fierce heat of living
falling toward
the centre of your longing. I want to know
if you are willing
to live, day by day, with the consequence of love
and the bitter
unwanted passion of your sure defeat.
I have been told, in that fierce embrace, even
the gods speak of God.
-"Self Portrait" - David Whyte (1955 - )
"There's nothing wrong with safe. 'Safe' bakes bread. 'Safe' does not think too heavily. 'Safe' does as it's told. We all need 'safe' at points, and without it we wouldn't be here. When you were a child and you pulled the duvet over you to hide from the night - that was 'safe'.
Safe isn't spectacular.
If you really think you can step out and have effect without taking risks, without the possibility of getting your fingers burned, then I don't know what game you're playing. There is no safe word. It's the science of Hermes: mirrors, shortcuts and tightropes. If you're not willing to put the effort in to make sure you don't put a foot wrong then you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Look at the Fool card in the tarot: you either step off the cliff or you don't. No trepidatious half-steps. Give nothing and you get nothing. You take steps wisely, you don't kick dust in the face of angels, but safe? None of it's safe."
- Peter Grey
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.
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