tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post4169251669181424245..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Thought for the day - the safety of permanence is a mythUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-46800299126027730302013-07-06T12:26:41.497+01:002013-07-06T12:26:41.497+01:00Dear bob, this was such a thought-provoking post. ...Dear bob, this was such a thought-provoking post. I'm not sure I agree with you, though. I think we're divided: half of us does want this travelling (or constant unveiling, if you like) but I think the other half wants permanence, continuity, peace and a sense of place. As a well known Muslim prayer goes: grant me the good things of this world and of the next. <br /><br />I think we want/need both..a kind of broken circle (or spiral).<br /><br />Titus Burckhardt has this to say on depictions of heaven...<br /><br />'Paradise is an eternal springtime, a garden perpetually in bloom, refreshed by the living waters,; it is also a final and incorruptible state like precious crystals and gold. The crystalline state is expressed in the purity of the architectural lines, the perfect geometry of the arched surfaces and the decoration in rectilinear forms; as for the celestial springtime, it blossoms in the stylized flowers and fresh, rich and subdued colours of ceramic tiles.'<br /><br />(from Art of Islam)<br /><br />Keep well,<br /><br />b.billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.com