Art Postcards & Wisdom Quotes for Mom's Urn

Art Postcards & Wisdom Quotes for Mom's Urn

Stephan Lochner (1400-1451), Lute Playing Angel
from Madonna of the Rose Bush (1440)
Wallfraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln, Germany
Kuan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion
Chinese, Late T'ang Dynasty (618-906)
Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Girl Reading (1886)
Städelschen Kunstinstut, Frankfurt, Germany

life is not holy
because it is
beautiful
it is beautiful
because it is
holy

— Robert Lax (1915-2000)
   A Thing That Is
   Poem 27 (1997)

Heaven is the Way.
The mind is the Way,
and the Way is Heaven.
If one knows the mind,
one knows both the Way & Heaven.

— Wang Yang Ming (1472-1529)
Ch'uan-hsi lu, I.66
Never did eye see the sun unless
it had first become sunlike,
and never can the soul have
vision of the First Beauty
unless itself be beautiful.

— Plotinus (204-270 A.D.)
   The Enneads, I.6.9