Paul Tillich: “Being Human Means Asking the Questions”

Photographer Unknown, (Ginger Man Gazing Out Window)

“Being human means asking the questions of one’s own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And, conversely, being human means receiving answers to the questions of one’s own being and asking questions under the impact of the answers.”

-Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, Vol 1

A Steady Breeze

 

Artist Unknown, (A Steady Breeze Moves the Air), Computer Graphics, Gay Film Gifs

sometimes i don’t know, which moment
which cool gust of wind will come,
and enchant me
tousling my hair
and my heart,

stirring…that familiar ache of poetry,

which drop will kiss
the old wrench in my soul
reminding me, all over again

i miss you better in the rain.

― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

 

Jane Lindskold: “The Subtle Strategies”

Photographer Unknown, (Curious Tools)

“Wolves regularly attacked their rivals in power, so the idea of killing to gain position was neither alien nor repulsive to her. The use of assassins she had filed as yet another of the curious tools – like swords and bows — that humans created to make up for their lack of personal armament. What she still had to puzzle through was the subtle strategies involved in killing those who were expected to inherit power rather than those who held the power itself.”

-Jane Lindskold, Through Wolf’s Eyes

The Black Ceramic Bowl

Photographer Unknown, (The Black Ceramic Bowl)

And this is something of a paradox, because, in becoming more skillful and more expert, you think you should be making pots more successfully and more safely, but as soon as you rest content with being safe and successful, your pots begin to be static and begin to be dead. They will only stay alive if they are always being brought to birth dangerously.

–Michael Cardew, English Potter

The quote is from Kevin A. Hluch’s “The Art of Contemporary American Pottery