Sunday, January 23, 2011

Stumbling Toward Ecstasy: Stairways to Heaven

 

Currituck Beach lighthouse- Outer Banks of North Carolina by Ian PlantCurrituck Beach Lighthouse—Outer Banks of North Carolina by Ian Plant

“The Stairs are Your Mentor of Things to Come.”

~David Whyte

Spiral Stairway Hotel Amsterdam post by skipSpiral Stairway Hotel Amsterdam by Bluefam

"Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits."
John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)

Photo by YoshiPhoto by Yoshi

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence."
Milan Kundera

Baroque Spiral Staircase by artcorneliusBaroque Spiral Staircase by artcornelius

"Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual."
Ernest Hemingway

Spiral Staircase at the Vatican Museum by GotinhaHelicoidal Staircase/ Vatican Museum designed by Michelangelo and photo by Gotinha

O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.  ~Song of Solomon 2:14

Spiral Stairs in the Basilica of CharitySpiral Staircase in the Basilica of Charity, Cartagena by Angel Macia Veas

"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines."
Walt Whitman

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