Image of the Day : Aurora Borealis

by Paulo Coelho on October 31, 2008

{ 34 comments… read them below or add one }

Kim December 13, 2010 at 3:02 pm

I really like the auror borealis. They are awesome!
I like how thay move because of the water.
I can see then here in North Dakota.
I like the different colors.

KIM

Donato Martinez February 25, 2010 at 8:40 am

I’m from way down in south Texas and the aurora borealis is 1st of things I need to see.

kedar nath roy February 18, 2010 at 5:50 pm

THE IMAGE IS SIMPLY BEWITCHING . NATURE AT ITS MOST BEAUTEOUS PEAK…..A SCENE TO BE REMEMBERED FOREVER ..

Eric December 21, 2009 at 1:34 am

This aurora image is used in a youtube.com video (time frame 2:29). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSt0NEESrUA

I thought I’d let you know just in case the aurora image is being used in violation of copyright. Who owns this image anyway?

Michael Jordan July 15, 2009 at 7:28 pm

A beautiful image..
I have seen them whilst standing in the street where I live looking northwards..even though in Northern Ireland you cannot see the full ‘show’ it was still beautiful..

I will go to see it from one of the Scottish Isles someday..it will be a worthwhile trip as such natural, magical and mystical beauty could only be food for the soul..

Love to all
Michael

Amy Sanders July 15, 2009 at 6:22 pm

The Northern Lights are breathtaking! Its one of my dreams to witness the Northern Lights from Alaska some day.
In AW!
Amy

Aurora Rosacia June 25, 2009 at 7:01 pm

what else can I say but awesome! Nice to see the beauty that my name represents.

Cambria April 26, 2009 at 8:56 pm

Beautiful… I am doing a report on the Northern Lights and im in 6th grade. I think it is an amazing phenomenon. :)

LUV,Cambria

Es April 25, 2009 at 12:10 am

This was an absolutely breath-taking view of the Aurora Borealis! Where was the picture taken? In Alaska or in Sweden or in Scandinavia?

Marie-Christine April 12, 2009 at 4:25 pm

magica

nilda lamelo April 12, 2009 at 10:21 am

imagime uma crianca de 4 anos apenas ver estas imagens da aurora boreal e dizer no primeiro olhar sem nunca ouvir qualquer comentario olha god magica. voce sabe que magica e um truque e como uma crianca pode saber que isto eh uma magica de Deus.

vikram December 1, 2008 at 6:37 pm

This pic is testimony of that great event where scientific domain locks hand with art.

Amy Sanders July 15, 2009 at 6:24 pm: I could not have said it better my self! BEAUTIFUL!

Pamela November 20, 2008 at 11:23 pm

so beautiful. I’m in Canada.. If i go a little bit north I can see them :)

MJ November 11, 2008 at 11:54 pm

I love northern lights…it is my dream to go to Yukon one day and watch the northern lights from there….xxxxxx

El Dormido November 3, 2008 at 4:07 pm

We have filled the world so full of structure it is hard to see beyond the gird lines of thought, buildings, economics, politics, sex, hunger, pain, pleasure, any thing.

The first time I entered through the Yosemite Valley portal, I was disoriented by the magnitude of the sheer verticality and stark presence of the valley walls that rendered trees that were 100 feet tell into miniatures.

I have lived often by the sea. Looking to the horizon I realize that there is another shore this same ocean touches, another people, another country.

Watching satellites and shooting stars across the mountain skies moves me to realize there are other activities, other purposes going on in the world, above the world.

To see this picture is to realize, even further, that my percepetion is so conditioned by my locality, that the world is so much bigger than I imagine, that ‘reality’ is farther beyond my understanding, I am startled to see the grand sweep of nature in process and hope, in some small measure, that I am adding to, not impeding, the flow of life.

Savita Vega November 3, 2008 at 9:39 am

The place where the lights touch the earth was believed by the Inuits to be an entry point into the World of Souls, both human and animal. In observing these lights, the could see their ancstors ad deceased relatives dancing in their next life.

I don’t know very much about the Inuit belief but it is very awe inspiring, I think, this idea of a physically manifest entry point into the spirit realm. The past couple of days I have been in London and moving about via bus, rail, underground – modes of transportation absent where I reside. This has caused me to consider much the idea of multiple dimensions potentially present in our own world. When I look at a map of the underground, the bus routes are not visible. When I am on the bus, the network utilized by the undergound is invisible. Likewise, the roads and motorways used by the buses disappear when I am on the underground. There are, in essence, only these designated and finite entry points (connection points) where one can pass from one mode of transportation, from one realm, to another. This sort of experiential phenomenon would have been wholly unthinkable a hundred years ago. But the fact that I can experience it today makes me think that, yes, the possibility of other dimesions co-existet with yet invisible to our own is not so strange after all. Who knows – perhaps there are places where the lights of the spirit realm touch the earth in a sense – points in this life where one can cross, at will, from one realm into another.

Beautiful photo!

Thank you,
Savita

Kathleen November 3, 2008 at 8:55 am

Just, Wow.

Kathleen xx

Carmen Larisa November 3, 2008 at 6:27 am

Simply beautiful! Dancing lights indeed which make your heart dance too! Thank you so much for the picture, it’s so colourful and energising. God is the Greatest Artist of all!

Lots of affection and all the best in the world now and forever!
Namaste!

twylah November 3, 2008 at 5:56 am

its beautiful. breathtaking. I’ve never seen this. but i hope i’d be able to see this before I die.Scenes like this always remind me of a higher being and profound beauty.

Alena November 3, 2008 at 3:55 am

It’s magic and mysteriously! Thank you, Dear Paulo!

SFG November 2, 2008 at 9:53 am

it was my dream to see this in Alaska… when i was turning 20. gosh i think it’s coming back!

Silvio November 2, 2008 at 3:03 am

Las luces son bellas.

Tania November 1, 2008 at 2:32 pm

well all of the above ;-) .we have a place here in Australia called Mt Warning and you can climb this mountain and see the first bit of light to touch the coast -they say it is beautiful.Blessings Tania

Simran November 1, 2008 at 12:45 pm

Simply beautiful :)

luce November 1, 2008 at 12:28 pm

Magnifiscent

Olympia November 1, 2008 at 11:56 am

La causa de la formación de las auroras está en la interacción del viento solar con el campo geomagnético, la magnetosfera, que envuelve a la Tierra, y con la ionosfera…

Me encantaria verlas…!!! Pero Laponia esta muuuuy lejos !!

Gracias…

Alexandra November 1, 2008 at 7:03 am

Well,who might say that such a picture has not something magic in it?
No painter can imagine such wonderful lines,mixture of colors like the Greatest Artist,God.Nature has infinite tresures.One remains speechless in front of such wonderful image.Thanks

Satora November 1, 2008 at 2:34 am