I find myself every once in a while, searching through quotations for something to inspire and to light up my day. Here’s several such quotations from Schelling. I hope you enjoy them. Photos are from this Fall, and what an enchanting Fall it was too.
Schelling’s, – “CLARA”
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One of the characters in this book says:
Oh, the true ruins are not those of ancient human splendor which the curious seek out in Persian or Indian deserts; the whole Earth is One great ruin, where animals live as ghosts and humans as spirits and where many hidden powers and treasures are locked away, as if by an invisible strength or by a magician’s spell.
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Even in your own opinion nature is suffering from a hidden poison that she would like to overcome or reject, but cannot. Doesn’t she mourn with us? We are able to complain, but she suffers in silence and can talk to us only through signs and miens. What a quiet wistfulness lies in so many flowers, the mourning dew and in the evening’s fading colors.
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“Certainly one who could write completely the history of their own life would also have, in a small epitome, concurrently grasped the history of the cosmos. Most people turn away from what is concealed within themselves just as they turn away from the depths of the great life and shy away from the glance into the abysses of that past which are still in one just as much as the present.”
“I now need friends who are not strangers to the real seriousness of pain and who feel that the single right and happy state of the soul is the divine mourning in which all earthly pain is immersed.”
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph
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“A tree that draws strength, life, and substance into itself from the earth may hope to drive its topmost branches hanging with blossom right up to heaven. However, the thoughts of those who think from the beginning that they can separate themselves from nature, even when they are truly spiritually and mentally gifted, are only like those delicate threads that float in the air in late summer and that are as incapable of touching heaven as they are of being pulled to the ground by their own weight.”
-Schelling, “Clara”
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Can anyone tell me: Does Word Press have an automatic “like” button feature anywhere? I am beginning to feel there has to be one, judging by the fast speed of the first few likes on each and every post, sometimes before I have published! ...
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Children Of Light 
Lovely post and flowers 🙂
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People can like directly from the reader without even viewing your post, so yes is the answer to your WP question.
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Thank You Julianne – yes the set up within the Word Press format has depressed me for a long time. I hardly post anymore, because it was so obvious to me anyway, that people were not reading my posts. There was so little real spontananity for anything I posted. I knew the blog was not being read. I tried changing the blog posts to include more of my photos, but the same thing still happened. Yet, on F.B. people are much more genuine with their likes and comments. They cannot fudge it there. My posts/photos over on F.B. do very well, but here on W.P., I have almost given up. It is also difficult to use the new technology that Word Press keeps throwing at us, and where it use to be fun to write posts, it is now a technical chore and with the wretched “like” button, the set up is woefully disappointing. Eve
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This is very beautiful. I have heard of the auto like button, and have seen what appears to be people using it, but I have no idea how it works. Peace to you.
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Thank you. I feel there must be one, because I often have too many “likes” from the same people, without ever a comment or no interaction. This makes no sense. It is very suspicious. I much rather have f.b. than this. Eve with thanks.
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Yes I know what you mean.
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