Tao of Photography
Sunday, May 12, 2019

Hearing with the Eye

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"Once a monastic asked the Tang Dynasty Chinese National Teacher, Nanyang, 'Do the insentient understand the expressing of the...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Mystery and Confusion

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"We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given fifteen billion years of cosmic e...
Saturday, May 04, 2019

Life Itself

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"As human beings, we are part of the whole stream of life. We have been human beings for perhaps a million years. But life itself...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Beauty and Mystery

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"Some people believe that there is no distinction between the spiritual and physical universes, no distinction between the inner an...
Monday, April 29, 2019

The Limitless Aleph

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"All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a shared past. How, then, can I translate into words the l...
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Sunday, April 28, 2019

Mind As Passage

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"The utmost mission of Mind is to train our obscure consciousness which has emerged out of the dark prison of Matter, to en...
Sunday, April 07, 2019

Organic Unfoldment

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"Photography!  Summation of the life experience Exquisite focal point of all being Aromatic distillation Inmost And ultim...
Saturday, April 06, 2019

Revere What is Unknowable

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"Science of nature has one goal: To find both manyness and whole. Nothing 'inside' or 'Out There,' The 'o...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Confrontation With Mystery

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"That everything may be conceived as an illusion does not exclude the concept that all illusion is reality. Any aspect of it can be...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

The Unaccountable Truth

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"...to 'listen' is to be in a position where hearing is impossible--or deceptive. It is the wrong kind of listening: list...
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Andy Ilachinski
Virginia, United States
I am, by training and profession, a physicist, specializing in the modeling of complex adaptive systems (with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics). However, both by temperament and inner muse, I am a photographer, and have been one for far longer than my Ph.D. gives me any right to claim an ownership by physics. Photography became a life-long pursuit for me the instant my parents gave me a Polaroid instamatic camera for my 10th birthday. I have been studying the mysterious relationship between inner experiences and outer realities ever since. My creative process is very simple. I take pictures of what calms my soul. There may be other, more descriptive or poetic words that may be used to define the “pattern” that connects my images, but the simplest meta-pattern is this: I take snapshots of moments in time and space in which a peace washes gently over me, and during which I sense a deep interconnectedness between my soul and the world. Not Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment,” but rather a "Sudden Stillness." My favorite quote: "That which you are seeking is doing the seeking." (St. Francis of Assissi)
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