antiquarians:

AND SOME THERE BE WHICH HAVE NO MEMORIAL: music for the last month of ordinary time before advent

let us now praise famous men ralph vaughan williams | linden lea traditional | sicut cervus giovanni pierluigi da palestrina | drop, drop, slow tears orlando gibbons | thou wilt keep him in perfect peace s.s. wesley | i sat down under his shadow edward bairstow | the lord is my shepherd john rutter | o taste and see ralph vaughan williams | beati quorum via c.v. stanford | draw us in the spirit’s tether harold friedell | ave maria robert parsons | verleih’ uns frieden felix mendelssohn | all people that on earth do dwell ralph vaughan williams | wacht auf johann sebastian bach

8tracks | spotify

billelis:

Artist: Billelis – A series of personal illustrations inspired by nature, the circle of life and the idea of organic decoration for the deceased on their journey to the afterlife. Flowers, death and life all come together in these 3D artworks inspired by Edvard Munch’s quote “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”

nondualchristianmysteries:

binghsien:

So I have been thinking about loving-kindness, the emotion that Judaism calls chesed and Buddhism calls metta.

Loving-kindness isn’t just love+kindness. Rather, it’s an unconditional, universal love: love for people not because they are good, or because they are lovable, but because they are people. Even broader: love for all life, for no reason than because it is alive.

(Embedded in this emotion is also the practice of kindness, but particularly, it is the practice of non-reciprocated kindness: the kindness of an (ideal) parent to a child, the kindness to a stranger you’re never going to see again.)

In Judaism, chesed is the emotion that God feels towards us (the Jews but, also, all humans and all creation.) And it is also supposed to be the emotion that we feel towards God.

This – that chesed is the emotion that we ideally feel towards God – has some interesting to say to me about God’s perfection or lack thereof. If God is perfect, then we will love God for being perfect. And loving someone for being perfect is a conditional love (indeed, it is a surefire way to heartbreak).

But that’s not the emotion we’re supposed to feel towards God. We’re supposed to feel an intense, world-spanning, unconditional love. Our love is supposed to be without regard to God’s lovability, or God’s perfection, or any of God’s particular traits.

If God is perfect, we cannot feel loving-kindness towards Him. The best we could manage would be admiration, or worship. So.

Most commonly referred to as charity in Western Christianity.

letlovemeetlove:

“Of course I pray for the dead. The action is so spontaneous, so all but inevitable, that only the most compulsive theological case against it would deter me. And I hardly know how the rest of my prayers would survive if those for the dead were forbidden. At our age, the majority of those we love best are dead. What sort of intercourse with God could I have if what I love best were unmentionable to him.”

— – C.S. Lewis

researchmemeticwarfare:

People really out here thinking that myths are just patently untrue things that people just believe contrary to material evidence around them which need to be “debunked” rather than a story which in itself is artificial but conveys real truths about the world and that person’s identity through a narrative framework

Basically we are mythological creatures, mythology is like the most human thing in the world, we all believe in myths, get over it