Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Monday, July 30, 2012

Art

Angel sleeping by rchoephoto
Angel sleeping, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Art points out the beauty we otherwise miss, as well
as the injustices we might otherwise dismiss.

Bob Hulteen, Popular Culture and Our Future

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Community

Ying & Yang by rchoephoto
Ying & Yang, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     We have all known the long loneliness,
     and we have found the answer is community.

        Dorothy Day

Saturday, July 28, 2012

On the Wall

On the Wall by rchoephoto
On the Wall, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Everything will be alright in the end ...
If it's not all right then it's not the end.

Sonny, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Friday, July 27, 2012

A reminder

Lighted Cross by rchoephoto
Lighted Cross, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



     There are no unsacred places:
     there are only sacred places
     and desecrated places.


        Wendell  Berry, How to be a Poet

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

The Journey

RIC_7885-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7885-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

Don Williams, Jr.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Tears

RIC_6767-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6767-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Words are tears that have been written down. Tears
     are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy
     loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.
        Paulo Coelho, Aleph

Sunday, July 22, 2012

I am ...

RIC_7941-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7941-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


          I am larger, better than I thought,
          I did not know I held so much goodness.


                Walt Whitman,
                Song of the Open Road [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178711]



Saturday, July 21, 2012

Coming Alive

RIC_8384-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_8384-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you
     come alive, and go do it! Because what the world
     needs is people who have come alive.

        Howard Thurman

Friday, July 20, 2012

Deep Listening

RIC_8014-2 by rchoephoto
RIC_8014-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things… [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Life

RIC_7891-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7891-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     If there is one thing in life we can be sure of,
     it is that there will always be a next. Until there isn’t.

        Roger Housden, Ten Poems to Say Goodbye

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

On Peace

RIC_3269-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_3269-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


          The problem is not with the faith
          but with the faithful.

                Kofi Annan

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Life

RIC_8420-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_8420-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Life is short, there is no time to leave important words unsaid.

     Recuerden: La vida es corta, no hay tiempo para dejar palabras
     importantes sin decir. 

        Paulo Coelho

Monday, July 16, 2012

Courage

RIC_8073-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_8073-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Courage, without which there is no freedom,
is a virtue rare, precious and hard.

Timothy Garton Ash on Aung San Suu Kyi

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Rest

RIC_7966-1 by rchoephoto

RIC_7966-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


                                           If you are searching you must stop until you find.
                                           When you find however, you will become troubled.
                                           Your confusion will give way to wonder.
                                           In wonder you will reign over all things.
                                           Your sovereignty will be your rest.

                                                                     Gospel of Thomas 2:1-4, Adopted by Dairmuid O'Murchu, 
                                                                     Seasons at the Centre: Five Oaks 60th Anniversary


Saturday, July 14, 2012

Compassion

RIC_7778-2 by rchoephoto
RIC_7778-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Unless compassion means the act of suffering with the other
in their otherness, it becomes meaningless.

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

Friday, July 13, 2012

Imagination

RC1_9073 by rchoephoto
RC1_9073, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Imagination, not invention,
     is the supreme master of art as of life.

       Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Liberation

RIC_3093 by rchoephoto
RIC_3093, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The way to help the blind is to understand, correct, remove the incapacities and inequalities in our entire civilization. 

Helen Keller

Monday, July 9, 2012

The essence of struggle

RIC_6463-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6463-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



     The essence of struggle is the decision to become new rather than
     simply to become older.

       Joan Chittister, Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope

     
    

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Grace

RIC_8010-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_8010-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The birds know,
as we sometimes do,
that the light does not dawn
because of our singing.
We sing
because the dawn appears
as grace.

Mary Jo Leddy, Radical Gratitude

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Wisdom

RIC_9979-1 by rchoephoto

RIC_9979-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening
     when you'd have preferred to talk.

         Doug Larson

Friday, July 6, 2012

Solitude

RIC_7804-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7804-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. Loneliness is small, solitude is large. Loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. Loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nobody answers; solitude has its roots in the great silence of eternity.

Kent Nerburn

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Poems

RC1_4468 by rchoephoto
RC1_4468, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


               Poems come out of wonder,
                      not out of knowing.


                                         Lucile Clifton

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Radical Gratitude

RIC_9088-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_9088-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


When we stop taking life for granted
and recognize it as a gift that is enough,
we are transformed at a deeply spiritual level of our lives. 

Mary Jo Leddy, Radical Gratitude

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Being you

RIC_7581-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_7581-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     I do not have to be different or better than I am to find a measure 
     of happiness and to be able to make a difference in the world.

       Mary Jo Leddy, Radical Gratitude

Monday, July 2, 2012

Gratitude

RCC_0925 by rchoephoto
RCC_0925, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Poverty taught me that all was not well under the sun
but the sun taught me that poverty was not everything.


Albert Camus

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Hold On

RIC_6150-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_6150-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Hold on to what is good,
     even if it's a handful of earth.
     Hold on to what you believe,
     even if it's a tree that stands by itself.
     Hold on to what you must do,
     even if it's a long way from here.
     Hold on to your life,
     even if it's easier to let go.
     Hold on to my hand,
     even if I've gone away from you.


       Pueblo saying