Oasis

Vast Turkish landscapes, the drought, feeling for days the heat of the summer sun, waiting regularly for  hours, next to the road on the hot asphalt feeling the blood flowing out of my raised thumb. Finally somebody stops and drops me next to a small forest. The soil covered with ferns and green mosses. The pines protect me with a thick shadow. The backpack stayed of my back for two days to get the rest I needed. I washed myself and my clothes in the river, organized my belongings and this gave me a lot of energy to continue the journey.
Allow yourself to find (or make) a place in which you feel comfortable and take time to really rest.

Heaven’s flowers

Heaven’s flowers can be picked as well. ‘Carefully’, because these flowers are fragile too. Luckely, they don’t perish. Heaven’s flowers stay with us forever. Unfortunately, we are not continuously aware of this. It can be like walking through a meadow full of flowers that is overgrown by grasses. However, unprepared and unexpected, we sense the full beauty of a heavenly flower through a color, an odor or maybe even a flower from earth. And like the flower rises up towards the sun, this  encounter lets us travel to a blissful realm where everything is pure, shiny, colorful and in balance. After we ground ourselves on the earth again, we might see flowers everywhere: on the side of the roads and flowers in the sky.The mandala is like the flower wanting to attract your attention. It screams: ‘look at me, go towards my center’. Guided by this art we surrender and get lost in each micro cosmos, reaching the world’s center and also our own. We can use mandalas in our everyday life, like putting flowers on our table in the middle of the room. We pick the flowers that attract us at the very moment. In birth and death different flowers decorate the scenes of our life. Like flowers, mandalas can help us to move through both beautiful and difficult times.Photograph made in the camera using multiple exposure mode.

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