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28 Jun 2025 00:18

Hand made cheese in the mountains. 🤍

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27 Jun 2025 23:17

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27 Jun 2025 20:14

Family 🤍

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24 Jun 2025 06:20

“There is no true unity between peoples as between individuals without a common idea, and this common idea must be placed as high as possible so that it can be seen from further on. By putting it too low, under the pretense of making it more accessible, they degrade the best, and only confirm mediocrity in their mediocrity. A high idea does not need to be understood for every citizen taken apart; it is enough for it to be in the air, whether it acts directly or indirectly on consciences.”

~Georges Bernanos

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24 Jun 2025 02:27

“All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.” 

Zeno of Citium

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24 Jun 2025 00:17

Past, present, future. 🤍

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23 Jun 2025 20:14

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23 Jun 2025 18:12

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"Anyone who is disposed to emphasize the defects of traditional civilizations would do well to look dispassionately at our modern progressive–and therefore non-traditional –civilization, and to look at it as it is, and not at what he thinks it is meant to be, or could be if only we could overcome this or that problem, or if only so-and-so would see sense. He should look at what it has in fact produced in the way of contentment, peace, beauty, or freedom, and then at what it has in fact produced in the way of anxiety, war and rivalry, and ugliness (in the despoiling of Nature and in the arts), and subjection to its own insatiable desires and to the inexhaustible demands of the machine..."

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21 Jun 2025 06:20

"Sapere aude! ‘Have courage to use your own reason!’ — that is the motto of enlightenment."

~Immanuel Kant

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21 Jun 2025 02:18

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20 Jun 2025 22:29

"Not only is it summer solstice, there is a full moon. May love surround you like sunshine on a sunny day."

William Shakespeare

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20 Jun 2025 20:14

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17 Jun 2025 06:20

"Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.”

~Plotinus, The Enneads

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17 Jun 2025 02:18

Home made is the best. 🤍

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16 Jun 2025 22:16

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27 Jun 2025 23:44

“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains – mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature’s workshops.”

John Muir

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27 Jun 2025 21:15

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27 Jun 2025 18:13

"Let God [the Law of Equilibrium] speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.”

~Hermann Hesse

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24 Jun 2025 04:19

The Philosopher in Meditation, 1632.

~Rembrandt

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"...Then he should consider, no less dispassionately, what its prospects of durability appear to be, bearing in mind that all its present tendencies are bound to be accentuated in the future, their accentuation being in fact its principal objective. More and more and faster and faster is the cry, as if the end of a continuous quantitative expansion could be anything but dispersion and fragmentation, either gradual or explosive.“


~Lord Northbourne

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21 Jun 2025 07:06

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21 Jun 2025 04:19

"The Poem of the Soul" painting series, 1835-1881.

~Louis Janmot

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21 Jun 2025 00:17

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20 Jun 2025 21:15

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20 Jun 2025 19:04

“Family is one of nature’s masterpieces.”

~George Santayana

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17 Jun 2025 04:19

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17 Jun 2025 02:06

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

Jacques Cousteau

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