The World’s Most Beautiful Museums
“In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart’s compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.” - Orhan Pamuk
In honor of International Museum Day, we assembled a list of our favorite museums around the world. Museums house the world’s treasures—be they artistic, scientific or historical—and in turn they are often designed to reflect or enhance the collections they host.
See more museum photos from across the Instagram community by browsing the location pages for these museums below.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, United States
- Museo Guggenheim - Bilbao, Spain
- The J. Paul Getty Museum - Los Angeles, United States
- State Hermitage Museum (Госуда́рственный Эрмита́ж) - St. Petersberg, Russia
- New Museum (@newmuseum) - New York City, United States
- Museum of Islamic Art - Doha, Qatar
- Jardines et Musée de Claude Monet - Giverny, France
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Venice (by Ryan Phillips Photography™)
We will always have Venice. For my friends Elaine and Charlie…precious memories of our one day there.
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The Science of Loneliness: How Isolation Can Kill You | New Republic
The psychological definition of loneliness hasn’t changed much since Fromm-Reichmann laid it out. “Real loneliness,” as she called it, is not what the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard characterized as the “shut-upness” and solitariness of the civilized. Nor is “real loneliness” the happy solitude of the productive artist or the passing irritation of being cooped up with the flu while all your friends go off on some adventure. It’s not being dissatisfied with your companion of the moment—your friend or lover or even spouse— unless you chronically find yourself in that situation, in which case you may in fact be a lonely person. Fromm-Reichmann even distinguished “real loneliness” from mourning, since the well-adjusted eventually get over that, and from depression, which may be a symptom of loneliness but is rarely the cause. Loneliness, she said—and this will surprise no one—is the want of intimacy.
“We must love one another or die.”
Great article, thanks for sharing @poetgirl
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Words mean nothing if our lives don’t speak for us. I am personally aware of how I sometimes use words of belief to cover up for my lack of real belief in my daily life. It’s easier to tell my kids a bunch of things that are true than it is to live as though I believe those things are true.
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To whom do you vocalize the most intense, irrational-meaning inchoate, inarticulate anger? Would you do so with someone who could fire you or cast you out of a cherished position or relationship? Not likely. You don’t trust them-you don’t believe they would endure the depths of your disappointment, confusion. And so the lament is never sung together, nor the anger ever addressed for fear that consequences would occur that are more devastating than the potential joy of reconciliation.
The person who hears your lament and far more bears your lament against them, paradoxically, is someone you deeply, wildly trust. It is the paradox that opens the heart to unfathomable rest. To sing a lament against God in worship reveals far, far greater trust than to sing a jingle about how happy we are and how much we trust him.
Probably will be like my house give it 10 more years haha
Pretty!
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I love this song and this video I wish I was part of it!
New theme song? Maybe….from Fearless to Brave, is there a difference? Plus this is for sharing, this is what I hope for for those I love!
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Responsive Prayer from Yokohama Union Church, Mother’s Day
“We come today, God of children, to thank you for the many kinds of mothers you have given to our world.
Thank you Lord.
We rejoice with women who feel loved and appreciated and fulfilled in the role of mother.
Thank you Lord.
Thank you for mothers who overlook our faults.
Thank you Lord.
We ask you to give faith and perseverance to women who question their ability to nurture and guide their children in a world of uncertainty and doubt. In your mercy,
Lord, hear our prayer.
We ask you to comfort mothers who are sad because they lost a child to death, or prison, or drug addiction. In your mercy,
Lord, hear our prayer.
Great Comforter, there are women who are sad today because they have lost a child to miscarriage or abortion. Help them forgive themselves or you. Grant them your peace. In your mercy,
Lord, hear our prayer.
For mothers whose children are terminally ill, chronically ill, mentally ill. Bless them with courage, strength and peace. Let them feel your love surrounding them and their children. In your mercy,
Lord, hear our prayer.
Thank you Lord for providing grandmothers, den mothers, godmothers, mothers-in-law, and women with no title who mothered us when we needed it.
Thank you, Lord.
Mighty God, whose Word we trust, whose Spirit prays in our prayers: accept our requests and further those which will bring your purpose for the earth; through Jesus Christ, who rules over all things. Amen.
From “A Mother’s Day Prayer” by Andrea Baier
recycled soul: liveandlovethequestions: “People without hope not only don’t write...
“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is…
More convicted than I was sitting in church this morning…..
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I experienced there what countless others have: the unhurried, humble, selfless attention of a human being who lived more deeply in the genuine awareness of kingdom reality than anyone I have ever known.
