Saturday, April 30, 2011

Friday, April 29, 2011

Role of Artist

RIC_1907 by rchoephoto
RIC_1907, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

Joseph Campbell



Thursday, April 28, 2011

Courage

RIC_1999 by rchoephoto
RIC_1999, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

One cannot remain neutral in the face of injustice, for to do so is to become an accomplice to the injustice.

James Loney, Captivity



Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Present Moment

RC1_7734 by rchoephoto
RC1_7734, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

There is only one moment when we can feel truly alive. That is the present moment.
The present moment is the only moment where life is available.

Thich Nhat Hanh



Monday, April 25, 2011

Reconciliation

RIC_2023 by rchoephoto
RIC_2023, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If we want to achieve reconciliation, not only do we have to struggle with the enemy, but we also have to wrestle with ourselves. And in the struggle we may find ourselves blessed and embraced by the presence of something greater.

Karen Armstrong, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life



Sunday, April 24, 2011

Bliss

RIC_2105 by rchoephoto
RIC_2105, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Bliss does not come from outside. It comes from inside, from serving the people.

Anna Hazare


Saturday, April 23, 2011

Saintliness

RIC_1943 by rchoephoto
RIC_1943, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

It is the struggle and strain of hope that brings about saintliness.

Brian D. McLaren



Friday, April 22, 2011

Your time

RIC_1928 by rchoephoto
RIC_1928, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Walk around feeling like a leaf.
Know you could tumble any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.

Naomi Shihab Nye, The Art of Disappearing



Thursday, April 21, 2011

Two Extremes

RIC_1910 by rchoephoto
RIC_1910, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

There are two extremes to avoid:
being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

Henry Nouwen



Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Grasp of Your Hand

DSC_8882 by rchoephoto
DSC_8882, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling
Your mercy in my success alone; but let me find
the grasp of Your hand in my failure.

Rabindranath Tagore, The Grasp of Your Hand



Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Be open

RIC_1901 by rchoephoto
RIC_1901, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

As an inlet cannot close itself to the sea that shapes it,
the heart can only wear itself open.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening



Monday, April 18, 2011

Why were you not Zusya?

RIC_1916 by rchoephoto
RIC_1916, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When I die and go to the world to come, they will not ask me, Zusya, why were you not Moses?
They will ask me: Zusya, why were you not Zusya?

Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol , Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim: Early Masters



Sunday, April 17, 2011

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Being human

RIC_2004 by rchoephoto
RIC_2004, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Everyone should keep a piece of paper with “for my sake the world was created” in one pocket and a piece of paper with “I am but dust and ashes” in another. The Rabbi was expressing an existential truth: each individual being is important, but not self-important.

Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshicha (1765-1827) quoted by Seth Segall


Friday, April 15, 2011

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Express yourself

RIC_1981 by rchoephoto
RIC_1981, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Unspoken expectations are resentments in waiting.

Anonymous



Wednesday, April 13, 2011

When Someone Deeply Listens to You

RIC_1974 by rchoephoto
RIC_1974, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When someone deeply listens to you
your bare feet are on the earth
and a beloved land that seemed distant
is now at home within you.

John Fox, When Someone Deeply Listens to You


Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Teachings

RCC_9504 by rchoephoto
RCC_9504, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The ancient teachings are not a romantic throwback to a vanished lifestyle
but a resonant of our contemporary responsibilities.

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song



Monday, April 11, 2011

What Matters

RCC_6484 by rchoephoto
RCC_6484 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

As is a tale, so is life:
not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Seneca




Sunday, April 10, 2011

Wounds to our Ego

RIC_2029 by rchoephoto
RIC_2029, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The wounds to our ego are our teachers and must be welcomed.
They must be paid attention to, not litigated.

Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs


Saturday, April 9, 2011

Slow

DSC_0546 by rchoephoto
DSC_0546, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory,
between speed and forgetting.

Milan Kundera



Friday, April 8, 2011

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Awakening and surrender

RIC_1567 by rchoephoto
RIC_1567, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Awakening and surrender:
they frame each day and each life;
between them the journey where anything can happen,
the beauty and the frailty.

John O’Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace



Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Innocence

RIC_9333 by rchoephoto
RIC_9333, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Innocence is more than lack of knowledge and experience;
it’s learning to look at the world with wonder.

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song



Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Humility

DSC_6926 by rchoephoto
DSC_6926, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Humility is the ability to see yourself as an essential part of something larger.
It is the act of living without grandiosity. …
Humility teaches that there are no greater or lesser beings or things.
There is only the whole.

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song



Monday, April 4, 2011

Nothing/Everything

DSC_4232 by rchoephoto
DSC_4232, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When we are nothing, we are in a fine position to receive everything from God.

Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs




Sunday, April 3, 2011

Eyes not our own

RIC_9457 by rchoephoto
RIC_9457, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When we can see the image of God where we don’t want to see the image of God,
then we see with eyes not our own.

Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs



Saturday, April 2, 2011

Healing

RCC_2286 by rchoephoto
RCC_2286 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

May all that I do today contribute to the healing of the world,
and may my heart be open enough to allow the world to contribute to my healing.

Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers


Friday, April 1, 2011