Monday, April 30, 2012

Compassion

RIC_2422-1 by rchoephoto

RIC_2422-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that it moves me to action? … my own true inner being actually exists in every living creature … [and] is the ground of that compassion upon which all true, that is to say, unselfish, virtue rests and whose expression is in every good deed.

Arthur Schopenhauer, “On the Foundations of Morality,” Sämtliche Werke


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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Living into Thinking

RIC_2688-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_2688-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



We do not think ourselves into new ways of living,
we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

Richard Rohr

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Translation

RIC_1138 by rchoephoto
RIC_1138, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Remember that writing is translation and 
the opus to be translated is yourself. 

E. B. White

Friday, April 27, 2012

Coming Back

DSC_9201 by rchoephoto
DSC_9201, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that
     you can see the place you came from with new eyes and
     extra colors. And the people there see you differently,
     too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as
     never leaving.

         Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Particularity

RCC_6160-1 by rchoephoto
RCC_6160-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     When the world becomes homogenized, something is lost.
     Even if it's only a name, we lose a little part of the soul
     of that place.

       Glenn Dixon, 
       Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Pulse of Life

RIC_7836-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7836-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


I wanted to write a protest song
then realized how, all along
I’d been beating time with my pulse.  ...


David Barker, Living As An Act Of Protest

Monday, April 23, 2012

Sunday, April 22, 2012

What matters in life

RIC_3645-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_3645-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.




What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Gabriel García Márquez

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Landscape

RIC_5801-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_5801-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Tell me the landscape in which you live,
     and I will tell you who you are.
       
       José Ortega y Gassett

Friday, April 20, 2012

Flowering

RIC_3757-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_3757-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds . . . flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

Ann Haymond Zwinger, The Mysterious Lands

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Being Peace

RIC_6060-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6060-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the
     thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing
     are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you
     inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong
     with them so keep seeking! If what you do has brought
     you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

       Peace Pilgrim

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Message of Survival

RCC_5995-1 by rchoephoto
RCC_5995-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



In spring from the black branches of the
    flowering plum tree
the woodthrush issues its routine
message of survival.

Louise Glück, Flowering Plum

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Sabbaths

RIC_1125-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_1125-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     
     And yet no leaf or grain is filled
     By work of ours, the field is tilled
     And left to grace.  That we may leap,
     Great work is done while we're asleep.

         Wendell Berry, Sabbaths

Monday, April 16, 2012

Rising

RIC_7860-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7860-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Whenever something is true, good, or beautiful
whether it be art, prayer, or thought, it rises.
And in rising, it converges with everything else
that is true, good, or beautiful.

Gregory Wolfe,
Convergences, Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Poets

RIC_3271-2 by rchoephoto
RIC_3271-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



Poets write in the line of prophecy,

and their work teaches us how to live.

Jay Parini, Why Poetry Matters

Friday, April 13, 2012

You

RIC_3409-1 by rchoephoto

RIC_3409-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When you are inspired by some great purpose ... 
dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, 
and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far 
than you ever dreamed yourself to be. 

Patanjali




Thursday, April 12, 2012

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

History & Memory

RIC_5437-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_5437-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     History and memory share events; that is, they share
     time and space. Every moment is two moments.

       Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The inner me

RIC_5951-1 by rchoephoto

RIC_5951-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

El yo interior se encuentra en mi tela, puerza en mi tela, puesto que soy yo quien la hace.

The inner me is necessary in the canvas because I am the one who makes it. 

Le moi intérieur, il est forcément dans ma toile, puisque c’est moi qui la fais.

Pablo Picasso



Monday, April 9, 2012

Setting Free

RIC_3291-2  by rchoephoto
RIC_3291-2 , a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The moment you can visualize being free from the things
     that hold you back, you have indeed begun to set yourself
     free.

       Unknown

Sunday, April 8, 2012

New Ending

RIC_3463-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_3463-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Maria Robinson

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Compassion

RIC_3154 by rchoephotoRIC_3154, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
     
     Compassion is rarely a solution but it is
     always a sign of a deeper reality, of a
     deeper human possibilities. And
     compassion is unleashed and wider and
     wider circles by signs and stories, never
     by statistics and strategies. 

       Krista Tippett

Friday, April 6, 2012

Reach Out & Risk

RIC_2965-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_2965-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Reach out to those you fear.
Touch the heart of complexity.
Imagine beyond what is seen.
Risk vulnerability one step at a time.


John Paul Lederach,
The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace



"The number of documented victims of extrajudicial killings is much higher than the number of political prisoners: 350 political prisoners over more than a thousand extrajudicial killings [in the Philippines in the last 10 years]."  

     - Dr. Ligaya Lindio-McGovern, Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, USA 

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Burden of Memory

RCC_5948-1 by rchoephoto
RCC_5948-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



     The camera relieves us of the burden of memory ...

     records in order to forget.

       John Berger

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Birthing

RCC_6231-1 by rchoephoto
RCC_6231-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


No one is born just once. 
If you’re lucky, you’ll emerge again
in someone’s arms;
or unlucky, wake
when the long tail of terror brushes
the inside of your skull.

Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Centre of Our Being

RIC_1464-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_1464-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     May we all grow in grace and peace, and not neglect the
     silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will
     not fail us. 

       Thomas Merton

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Conviction

RIC_2886-1 by rchoephoto

RIC_2886-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Prison walls and iron bars can only lock away our bodies
but not our minds, our thoughts and what we stand for.

Angie B. Ipong with Mars Marata and Other Political Prisoners,
A Red Rose for Andrea: Writings from Prison


"The number of documented victims of extrajudicial killings is much higher than the number of political prisoners:
350 political prisoners over more than a thousand extrajudicial killings [in the Philippines in the last 10 years]."  

     - Dr. Ligaya Lindio-McGovern, Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, USA