resilia

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

— Pablo Neruda

But to every mind there openeth,
A way, and way, and away,
A high soul climbs the highway,
And the low soul gropes the low,
And in between on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.

But to every man there openeth, 
A high way and a low,
And every mind decideth,
The way his soul shall go.

One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
‘Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.

Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time,
As we journey along through life,
‘Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Roman Signer, Kunsthaus Zürich, 2025

Meet challenges in life with curiosity.

Tate Modern, London

You are not a drop in the ocean.
You are the entire ocean in a drop.

—Rumi

Let us be moved by the election outcome in the USA to be kinder, than we need to be. To stand up against racism and chauvinism with much more determination. To actively empower underprivileged and underserved friends and neighbours. To work towards building bridges. To have the patience to listen more carefully. To address injustice. To stay truthful. To protect our environment and biodiversity with far more commitment.

Wall at Cooper Square NYC, July 2024

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

— Corinthians

Thank you Mia for sharing this with me <3

“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

“…my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written…
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

– Oliver Sacks