Bill Brandt & Hafiz of Shiraz

Photo by Bill Brandt 1952 Perspective of nudes 


I wish
 I could
show you
when you are lonely or in darkness
the astonishing light
of your own being.

Hafiz of Shiraz 

Herb Ritts & R.T. Bennet

Photo by Herb Ritts, Male nude, 1985



Accept yourself,
love yourself,
and keep moving forward.
If you want to fly,
you have to give up what weights you down.

Roy T. Bennet
The light in the heart

Andrea Simoncini & Nathaniel Hawthorne

Meditation, photo by Andrea Simoncini, www.andreasimoncini.com



If we would know what heaven is before come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirit, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Note-books, 1841

Nobuyoshi Araki & The Erotic

Photo by Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese Erotic Photographer)



Always without desire we must be found,
if its deep mystery we would sound
but if desire always within us be,
its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

Tao Te Ching