Spiritual quotes that might illumine the nature of photography

Spiritual quotes that might illumine the nature of photography – Part 1

I hope those of you who can get BBC tv are catching the series ‘The Genius of Photography‘ It is the best series on photography I have seen.

Previously I also praised Geoff Dyer’s The Ongoing Moment. Both the BBC programme and Dyer’s book raise interesting issues in relation to what we my call the ‘spirit of photography’. Along with work of video artist Bill Viola my interest is also how the spiritual might inspire the photographic. Below is the first part of some quotations that might inspire!

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. Rumi

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi

Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it’s a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame’s core.

The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty!. Try to be more like the ground.

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”

“Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.

Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

The tale of love must be heard from love itself. For like a mirror it is both mute and expressive.

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