Jane Redfern

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

The river is such a tranquil place to sit and think of the beauty of nature, to enjoy the birdsong and listen to the rustling elegant leaves of the willow. Barney and Digby enjoyed the opportunity to cool off in the beautiful River Usk.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”

Bruce Lee's notes to himself on willpower, emotion, confidence, and imagination https://t.co/DNwcuwQzbt

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

Wondering what's around the bend on this beautiful stretch of the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal...

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."

Henry David Thoreau

[Krishnadev Satyarthi @KrisBhattarai]

You hear but you don’t listen. You will have to learn how to listen. Listening means being utterly silent, not interpreting, not judging, not evaluating neither for nor against but just being present.

#Osho

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

“I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself - I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, 'F@#%k, I can't read two-thirds of these books.' It overwhelms me with sadness."

David Bowie

Photo: Jimmy King

[Bonnitta Roy @bonnittaroy]

There is, in each person’s experience, an active point of view, which means that the world that ensues is being directed by the self, by the person’s perceptual presence. Therefore the kind of self that one is, is important not as a mere witness, but as an instigator of reality.

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Norman Vincent Peale

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

I like solitude. I like a quiet life.

[Laura London @jungianLaura]

"There are many who skate through life unperturbed, some with luck, some with naiveté, and some with sheer opacity of #soul. None of this shipwreck talk will make any sense to any of them. But there are those out there who picked themselves up off the floor, those who emerged from the crash, those who listened when something #inside demanded they persist, and from then forward they knew that something supports them from #within when the outer world has fallen apart. To know what supports us when nothing supports us is a genuine treasure." ~James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, "Shipwreck: The Importance of Failure in Our Lives," The Broken Mirror, pp. 90-91

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

Indra Devi

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Andrea Kowch - Queens Court, 2013.

Credit: Ravenous Butterflies on Facebook.

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

A fine and subtle spirit dwells
In every little flower,
Each one its own sweet feeling breathes
With more or less of power.
There is a silent eloquence
In every wild bluebell
That fills my softened heart with bliss
That words could never tell.

From 'The Bluebell' by Anne Bronte.

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

It's grey and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above the clouds. A gap appears allowing a beam to escape and smile the clouds away.

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Jules Bastien Lepage - The Wood Gatherer, 1881.

Credit: Ravenous Butterflies, Facebook

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

“You cannot control the behaviour of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”
Roy T. Bennett - The Light in the Heart.

Andrea Kowch - An Invitation, 2013.

Credit: Ravenous Butterflies on Facebook.

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

We humans transform landscapes and leave our marks on the world. But these marks are not always indelible, because when we move on, nature quickly moves in to stake its claim once more.

At #chirkcastle

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

Strikingly picturesque ruins steeped in history, tales of bitter border warfare, romance, and legend. #whittingtoncastle

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.” Van Gogh.

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

A rare photograph of Vincent Van Gogh taken in 1873 when he was 19 years old.  When the image was taken, Vincent worked for the Goupil & Cie art dealership in The Hague, shortly before being relocated to their branch in London, England. Credit: lori.follart.history_in_color

[Jane Redfern @JaneImaginari]

We still have lots of snow and it’s just started snowing again.