Where shepherds haunt would I be seen, and rest me in oases green. When with the caravan I fare, shawl, coffee, musk, my merchant’s ware. No pathway would I leave untraced, to the city from the waste. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe این نیز بگذردגם זה יעבורTumblr (3.0; @thewestostlicherdivan)http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4da5033ad1d60cd0308649d5368e0205/tumblr_mmwyf7etBD1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Stay in Manhattan or maybe move to Maui for awhile? From one island to another, post-grad decisions… #Hawaii #Pacific #paradise #NewYork #college</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/50608185725http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/50608185725Thu, 16 May 2013 18:57:07 -0400newyorkcollegehawaiipacificparadise<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/227dc8170e9ff3c7407e18695fc0e407/tumblr_mmt2r9fFVT1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>By Elif Şafak. I love getting presents in the mail (read: forgot I ordered this for myself) #ElifŞafak #love #Sufism #Rumi #Mevlana #books</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/50441678372http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/50441678372Tue, 14 May 2013 16:40:21 -0400rumiloveelifşafaksufismbooksmevlana<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/02fa14084929f0bd62b7dedcdf0dc4af/tumblr_mmq36wtrRb1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Boy with a basket of fruit by Caravaggio. #caravaggio #pastlife</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/50325633252http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/50325633252Mon, 13 May 2013 01:56:56 -0400caravaggiopastlife<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/07e6d9d84d7a4a76b05ff9722ad75a3c/tumblr_mmp68dOlzq1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>From generation to generation, bless them who have made life beautiful. Feliz Dia das Mães. #mothersday #love #love #love</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/50273921103http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/50273921103Sun, 12 May 2013 14:05:00 -0400lovemothersday<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b658359551ee9c6ac2422f778cfed336/tumblr_mmn10jDFOI1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Beautiful sketch by @abbydrielsmatattoo #TreeofLife #DNA #kabbalah</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/50166348601http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/50166348601Sat, 11 May 2013 10:17:07 -0400kabbalahtreeoflifedna<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a44e9a2246ebb06693f131af22e3bda0/tumblr_mmgfn3pFEY1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Admiring work of photographer Ara Güler to get me in the mood for my conference project on religion and art in contemporary Turkey. #AraGüler #photography #Türkiye #Istanbul #SüleymanieCamii</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49896044109http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49896044109Tue, 07 May 2013 20:49:50 -0400aragülerphotographytürkiyesüleymaniecamiiistanbul<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f85d3f9c3a36fcb2fee16e222ff56809/tumblr_mmgcqmbBca1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>שרף #new</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49891038088http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49891038088Tue, 07 May 2013 19:47:10 -0400new<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/74206999a32e7ceb5a51bbd0d9788a7b/tumblr_mmapawUuWE1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The pasha and the princess go for a carriage ride. #Büyükada #Türkiye #Adalar #Istanbul (at Büyükada)</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49628630464http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49628630464Sat, 04 May 2013 18:32:55 -0400türkiyebüyükadaistanbuladalar<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/bce594f9af2e49f0bcf824bd74df6743/tumblr_mman47yOWF1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Manhattan in 1941. #NewYorkCity #NYC #photography #Americana #EmpireState</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49625256832http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49625256832Sat, 04 May 2013 17:45:43 -0400empirestatenycphotographynewyorkcityamericana““Elegance is when the inside is just as beautiful as the outside.””<br/><br/> - <em><em>Coco Chanel</em> </em>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49477494238http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49477494238Thu, 02 May 2013 21:05:49 -0400“If all art is in essence poetry, then the arts of architecture, painting, sculpture, and music must be traced back to poesy. That is, pure arbitrariness. It certainly is, as long as we mean that those arts are varieties of the art of language, if it is permissible to characterize poesy by that easily misinterpretable title. But poesy is only one mode of the clearing projection of truth, i.e., of poetic composition in this wider sense. Nevertheless, the linguistic work, poetry in the narrower sense, has a privileged position in the domain of the arts. To see this, only the right concept of language is needed. In the current view, language is held to be a kind of communication. It serves for verbal exchange and agreement, and in general for communicating. But language is not only and not primarily an audible and written expression of what is to be communicated. It not only puts forth in words and statements what is overtly or covertly intended to be communicated; language alone brings beings as beings into the open for the first time. Where there is no language, as in the Being of stone, plant, and animal, there is also no openness of beings, and consequently no openness of nonbeing and of the empty.”<br/><br/> - <em>Martin Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art”</em>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49477451158http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49477451158Thu, 02 May 2013 21:05:15 -0400“That individual who boldly and courageously asserts the will to love in the midst of a world of fear and hate, will create for [themself] and for those who love [them], a magic realm of serenity and peace.”<br/><br/> - <em>Attributed to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá </em>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49477328127http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49477328127Thu, 02 May 2013 21:03:37 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7c19ecbac98acd4a179f98c3ea50129d/tumblr_mm6ky0M8Tb1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>#venus #moon #sunrise</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49445430940http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49445430940Thu, 02 May 2013 13:08:24 -0400venussunrisemoon<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4e50e6f288aee55503a6cd06d67b9e7f/tumblr_mm6kxndURA1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Nabataea. #Petra #Jordan #WadiMusa #اَلأُرْدُنّ #البتراء #Πέτρα</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49445420267http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49445420267Thu, 02 May 2013 13:08:10 -0400اwadimusaπέτραالبتراءjordanpetra<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e29a163d9915f9aeb2083c017401de77/tumblr_mm6kx9o5Sz1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Beauty in the palm of your hand. #hamsa #خمسة #חמסה</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49445408644http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49445408644Thu, 02 May 2013 13:07:57 -0400חמסהخمسةhamsa<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/299003929884d9706a7dfb5d319a305c/tumblr_mm4r3anuMh1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Long hair, don’t care. #curly #Prague #Praha #CzechRepublic</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49369301617http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/49369301617Wed, 01 May 2013 13:25:58 -0400czechrepublicpragueprahacurly<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/daf984b04babcc9e98fced2bfcd174aa/tumblr_mlw52azr4P1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>#peace #paix #paz #frieden #ειρήνη #barış #pace #שלום #صلح</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/48972390454http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/48972390454Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:49:21 -0400pazpeacepacepaixfriedenbarışשלוםειρήνηصلح<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/85165fc240c2e03e4985d3c857ba960b/tumblr_mlubmkU0PQ1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>By Farideh Lashai #contemporaryart #iran #newyork (at Leila Heller Gallery)</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/48900235225http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/48900235225Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:15:55 -0400newyorkirancontemporaryart<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/49d023c8311a67d097e9dbbcb6e9868b/tumblr_mlublvn6rj1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>By Farideh Lashai. #contemporaryart #Iran #NewYork (at Leila Heller Gallery)</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/48900202705http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/48900202705Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:15:30 -0400newyorkirancontemporaryart<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/bef5f282944768d90c59517a8dbf6463/tumblr_mltlpeGjYX1qczy1ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My grandmother sends me news cutouts of things I enjoy ☺ #Jerusalem #ירושלים</p>http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/48861141137http://thewestostlicherdivan.tumblr.com/post/48861141137Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:56:01 -0400ירושליםjerusalem