My Inspiration for August 2025

I haven’t written my inspiration post for the month of July, not because there was nothing to be inspired about but because my days have been so intensely beautiful that I could not put it in the language of words and pictures, nothing seemed a good enough description to the beauties that I have felt. This August I feel the same, but I decided to write it anyway, if anything then as a memory for me later, but I know you will enjoy as well. As you may have seen from my posts this August I have very much been enjoying the monsoon vibes through songs and through Kangra paintings, then the dance of Shobana from the film ‘Manichitrathazhu’, paintings by a Bengali artist Jamini Roy, Brancusi’s sculpture ‘The Kiss’ and Indian erotic sculptures, writitings of Osho and some Tamil poetry, once again, always here for me in their beauty – and so were the waves of the sea once more which rejuvenated my spirit and added magic to my days. Wonderful conversations with interesting people. Dreams finally becoming reality and things opening up slowly but beautifully. Many precious moments of freedom and clarity – the bird is out of the cage, at last.

“Therefore, we must cut away two things–fear of the future and memory of past unpleasantness; the latter no longer pertains to me, the former not yet.”(Seneca the Younger, Epistles 78.14)

“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”

(Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910)

Found here. @rohitharas on Instagram.

Hot summer day, Cervara di Roma, Monti Simbruini, Lazio, Italy. Lomo LC-A on Rollei Crossbird film. Grainy, light leaks. Photo by JohBeil.

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