“Above all things Truth beareth away the victory.”
— I Esdras 3:12, Apocrypha (KJV)
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“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
— Henry David Thoreau (1817‒1862), "Journal" -
“A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.”
— Henry David Thoreau (1817‒1862), "Journal" -
“Nature is full of genius, full of divinity, so that not a snow-flake escapes its fashioning hand.”
— Henry David Thoreau (1817‒1862), "Journal" -
“The Anglo-American can indeed cut down […] this forest[ …] but he cannot converse with the spirit of the tree he fells.”
— Henry David Thoreau (1817‒1862), "The Maine Woods", 1864 -
“In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
— Henry David Thoreau (1817‒1862), "Walden", 1854 -
“We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us… and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities.”
— Henry David Thoreau (1817‒1862), "Walden", 1854 -
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
— Henry David Thoreau (1817‒1862), "Walden", 1854 -
“The night veils without a doubt a part of this glorious creation; but day comes to reveal to us this great work, which extends from earth even into the plains of the ether.” — Henry David Thoreau (1817‒1862), "Walden", 1854
This mandala was previously featured in Resa McConaghy’s blog Graffiti Lux Art & More and was based on one of her original Art Gowns creations.
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“We seek to perceive them [the subtile powers of Heaven and Earth], and we do not see them; we seek to hear them, and we do not hear them; identified with the substance of things, they cannot be separated from them.”
— Henry David Thoreau (1817‒1862), "Walden", 1854
Mandala Vihara 