Hi, I'm Nini and this is the tumblr where I try to convey daily inspiration for the beauty loving soul. I'm inspired by the ancient Greek ideal of "ARTE" and their ideas about beauty, wisdom and love. (More about the philosophy of this place here...)

Please note: I try to credit all artists properly, if you discover an uncredited post and wish me to complete an information or remove works for copyright reasons, please let me know.

Also: Most of my posts are reblogs I have discovered via a great number of inspiring tumblr users I follow. I warmly encourage everyone to have a look at the notes below each post to see who blogged the content first or before me and follow these people as well! They deserve my full respect and praise - I am grateful for them to dig out such wonderful posts day after day!


My own works:
Nini Baseema
Traveling Nini
One Selfportrait A Day 2011
Same Face But Different
A week with my granny
My Flickr Profile

My Other Musings:
Rooms With Views
This must be underwater love...
The Bunny-Headed Humanoid

Writer for:
LostAtEMinor
BaldHiker Travelblog
Musetouch

Contact me via ninibaseema@gmail.com




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“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all on crew.” Marshall McLuhan

Whatever inspires you - let your inner muse be your guide.

Day 10 - September Women - Feminine Wisdom

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

― Stephen Hawking

Plato was the man.

oneselfportraitaday:

Day 286 (101311)
The inspirational thought of today… (by Erich Fromm)

‎There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.
(via idterab)
Everyone is asleep
there is nothing to come between
my moon and me.
Enomoto Seifu-Jo (Japanese 1731 - 1814)
Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes. (CG Jung)
The best way to know life is to love many things”
― Vincent van Gogh
if you want to become whole,
let yourself be partial.
if you want to become straight,
let yourself be crooked.
if you want to become full,
let yourself be empty.
if you want to be reborn,
let yourself die.
if you want to be given everything,
give everything up.
tao te ching (via partiallycommitted)

(via teaintheafternoon)

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.
CG Jung - CW 13: Alchemical Studies, par 335, pg 265
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Nick Hornby, How to Be Good (via idterab)

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

~Ven. Pema Chödrön

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Zora Neale Hurston (via misswallflower)