{"id":2959,"date":"2013-02-23T20:58:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T01:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/02\/inner-essence\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T20:58:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T01:58:31","slug":"inner-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/02\/inner-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"Inner Essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was speaking recently with a collector who was attempting to choose from among the hundreds of images we include on the gallery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/cgi-bin\/shop\/portfolio.cgi\" target=\"_self\">website<\/a>.&#0160; He described looking through every image and said that although he couldn&#39;t articulate it exactly, it seemed to him, as he clicked through image after image, that there was a &quot;personality&quot; evident that was more than the subject matter would suggest &#8212; something abstract and transcendent.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>I was flattered &#8212; he has a discriminating eye &#8212; and thanked him for the observation. Later in the week I came across this quote that described, perhaps better than he could, what he experienced:<\/p>\n<p><em>Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow.<\/em><br \/><em>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;\u2014 Eckhart Tolle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b017ee8b221fd970d-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5056\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b017ee8b221fd970d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b017ee8b221fd970d-500wi.jpg\" title=\"5056\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was speaking recently with a collector who was attempting to choose from among the hundreds of images we include on the gallery website.&#0160; He described looking through every image and said that although he couldn&#39;t articulate it exactly, it seemed to him, as he clicked through image after image, that there was a &quot;personality&quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}