Look: the trees exist; the houses
we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air…….

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

“Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?” 

Pablo Picasso

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. - Buddha

… their lives were full of quiet drama, full of vague yet thrilling signs that life was not as the common run supposed it to be; they were among those… who watch life as though it were a great drab curtain which they are sure is always about to rise on some terrific and exquisite spectacle, and though it never did quite rise, they were patient, and noted excitedly every small movement of it as the actors took their places, strained to hear the unimaginable setting being shifted.”
― John Crowley, Little, Big

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they are happy…..

Anton Chekhov

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore…

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

William Butler Yeats

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.” - Jorge Luis Borges

Water Lilies is an extension of my life. Without the water, the lilies cannot live, as I am without art. -  Claude Monet.  (painted over 250 paintings of water lilies)

"All of my creation is an effort to weave a connection with the World; I am always weaving it because it was once broken. But as I want these webs to be always truthful, I do not know how to break the false ones….." - Anais Nin, Diary of Anasis Nin Volume 3 1939-1944

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you’re just a reflection of him? Bill Watterson - Author of the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes”.