Thursday, September 29, 2011

Grace

RIC_8359_edited-1 by rchoephoto

RIC_8359_edited-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


May God give us thankful hearts
and keep us in friendship
to our lives' end.
Amen.

Merchant Taylors' Company Grace, William S. Kervin, A Year of Grace


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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Contribution

RIC_4919-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_4919-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The idea of contribution is especially instructive because it lies in the area that unites the “I” and the “we.” We contribute because we are part of something larger than our own lives and efforts, but the form of our contribution is based on our uniqueness and our individuality. 

Carol Ochs, Women and Spirituality

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Context

RIC_8368 by rchoephoto
RIC_8368, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



All thinking and learning takes place in a context. 
The mind always seeks context in order to create meaning. 

Ed Clarke

Monday, September 26, 2011

Questions

RC1_0012 by rchoephoto
RC1_0012, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Genuine questions –ones for which we don’t already have answers – are open invitations to innovation. 

Juanita Brown with David Issacs and the World Café Community, The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Hospitality

RC1_8468 by rchoephoto
RC1_8468, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     

       Hospitality is the act of affirming gifts in others. 

        Juanita Brown with David Issacs and the World Café Community,
        The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Seeing

RIC_1119 by rchoephoto
RIC_1119, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


It’s never enough just to tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it in a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people’s heads, you need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way. 

John Seely Brown, Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation

Friday, September 23, 2011

Questions

RIC_7541-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7541-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Creativity requires asking genuine questions,
     those to which an answer is not already known. 
     Questions function as open-handed invitation to creativity,
     calling forth that which doesn’t yet exist. 

       Marilee Goldberg, The Art of the Question

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Dream

RC1_8919 by rchoephoto
RC1_8919, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


El sueño que no se alimenta de sueño desaparece.

The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.

Antonio Porchia, Voices, translated by W. S. Merwin

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Luxury

RC1_8529 by rchoephoto
RC1_8529, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Luxury is a necessity that starts where necessity stops. 

Coco Chanel, Chanel by Edmond Charles Roux

Monday, September 19, 2011

Life

_DSC6556 by rchoephoto
_DSC6556, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


      How short life must be,
      if something so fragile can last a lifetime. 

        Kafka

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Patron to Heaven

RIC_7822-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7822-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be “a patriot to heaven,” and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.

Jorge Luis Borges, Borges en Sur



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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Practicing vision

RIC_7942-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7942-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

    A change of heart or of values without a practice is only
    another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of

    life.

      Wendell Berry

Friday, September 16, 2011

Sunset

RCC_0963 by rchoephoto
RCC_0963, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is inside me again.


Anna Akmatova

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Birds

RIC_2289 by rchoephoto
RIC_2289, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



God loved the birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages. 

Jacques Deval

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Life

RIC_8164-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_8164-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Life is a journey back to God,
and our relationships are the road we travel.


Susan L. Taylor, Women of Color Pray

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Monday, September 12, 2011

Love

RIC_6348-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6348-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Love gives itself away.
In fact, love is not love until it is given away.


Della Reese, Women of Color Pray

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Light & Dark

RIC_7556-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7556-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

                                        In the seed, the genes whisper: stretch out for the light
                                              and seek the dark
                                        And the tree seeks the light, it stretches out for the dark
                                        And the more darkness it finds, the more light it discovers.

                                                                                                                                 Reide Eknar, Horologium


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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Silence within

RIC_7978-2 by rchoephoto
RIC_7978-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

Friday, September 9, 2011

Questions

RCC_9831 by rchoephoto
RCC_9831, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


         Who are you?
         Where are you from?
         Where are you in your journey?

Jack Kornfield, an ancient custom among nomadic peoples,amon g Bedouins and gypsies, recounted by Jon Kabat-Zinn in Coming to Our Senses

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Happiness

RIC_8027-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_8027-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at,
but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runback

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Joy

RIC_6125-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6125-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


He who binds to himself a joy
Doth the wingéd life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity’s sun rise.

William Blake

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Stories

RIC_8241-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_8241-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Only stories adequately reflect what it is to be human.

Jonathan Sacks, Covenant & Conversation

Monday, September 5, 2011

Practicing Love

RC1_8410 by rchoephoto
RC1_8410, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and
we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and
the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

Dorothy Day


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Friday, September 2, 2011

Memory

RIC_6469-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6469-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



All memory is present.

Novalis (Georg Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg)

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Another World

RIC_7827-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7827-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

    Another world is not only possible, she
   is on her way.  
   On a quiet day, I can hear her
   breathing.  

    Arundhati Roy