Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Art



Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul – 
and you answer

Terri Guiffemets 

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Poetry


     There is nothing but beauty – 
     and beauty has only one perfect expression,
     Poetry.
     All the rest is a lie. 

       Stéphane Mallarmè

Friday, March 21, 2014

Death

RCC_4978 by rchoephoto
RCC_4978, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


        Each day, we wake slightly altered, 
     and the person we were yesterday is dead. 
     So why, one could say, be afraid of death, 
     when death comes all the time?

        John Updike

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Real Friends

Snow Art  (2014, 2.9) by rchoephoto
Snow Art (2014, 2.9), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Only your real friends will tell you 
when your face is dirty.

Sicilian Proverb

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Hope


What is hope?
It is the insight that imagination is more real
and reality less than it looks.
It is the hunch that 

the overwhelming brutality of facts
that oppress and repress is not the last word


Ruben Alves

Monday, March 17, 2014

Opening

Cross 4 (2014, 3.10) by rchoephoto

Cross 4 (2014, 3.10), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Sometimes opening your eyes may be
the most painful thing you ever have to do.

Unknown

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Home

Shadow 4 (2014, 3.11) by rchoephoto
Shadow 4 (2014, 3.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


In the stillness
at the centre of our being, 
we find Home. 

Sue Krebs

Friday, March 14, 2014

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The Unknown

RIC_3354-1 by rchoephoto

RIC_3354-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



More and more I've become convinced that 
the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

P. L. Travers

Monday, March 10, 2014

Life

RIC_3272-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_3272-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Life is not what it's supposed to be.
It's what it is.
The way you cope with it is
what makes the difference.

Virginia Satir

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Silence

RIC_3307-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_3307-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Within each of us there is a silence – 
a silence as vast as a universe.
We are afraid of it …
And we long for it.

Gunilla Norris,
Inviting Silence

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Myths

RIC_3292-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_3292-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Myths are not literally true,
but they do not represent untruths, lies, or fantasies;
they are metaphorically true and often are the only way
to communicate the truth they represent.


Margaret Somerville, 
The Ethical Imagination

Friday, March 7, 2014

Healing

RIC_3229-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_3229-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Healing may not be so much about getting better,
As about letting go of everything that isn’t you 
– all of the expectations, all of beliefs – 
and becoming who you are.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Creating your own miracle

Field of Snow1 (2014, 3.4) by rchoephoto
Field of Snow1 (2014, 3.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     You can create your own miracle. But you do it by
     never looking past all the little steps along the way. 

        Mikaela Shiffrin

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Writing

Navajo Heart 1 (2014, 3.3) by rchoephoto
Navajo Heart 1 (2014, 3.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

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

Elwyn Brooks White

Monday, March 3, 2014

Seeing


      The eye identifies itself 
     not with the body it belongs to 
     but with the object of its attention.

        Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Art

Heart 1 (2014, 2.1) by rchoephoto
Heart 1 (2014, 2.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

Alain de Botton, Art as Therapy

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Being


You can't really be with others 
until you know how to be with yourself.

Richard Wagmese

Monday, February 17, 2014

A Miracle

      Here is what I was trying to figure out: 
     how a miracle happens. 
     A great work of art—
     something that makes people pay attention, 
     return to the work again and again,
     and reexamine their assumptions,
     something that infuriates, hurts, and confronts—
     a great work of art is always a miracle.

        Masha Gessen

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Creating Change


The only way we really create change is 
to enter any situation with the humility to listen
and to recognize the world as it is,
and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Wisdom

RCC_5476 by rchoephoto
RCC_5476, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


       We should treat all the trivial things 
     of life very seriously, 
     and all the serious things of life
     with sincere and studied triviality. 

        Oscar Wilde

Friday, February 14, 2014

Memory

Heart 2 (2014, 2.1) by rchoephoto
Heart 2 (2014, 2.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The world begins and ends in memory;
What I remember is what I am.


Glen Sorestad, Aide Memoire

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Failures and Tears

Snow Art  (2014, 2.9) by rchoephoto
Snow Art (2014, 2.9), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When I reach the place of my dreams,
I will thank my failures and tears.
They too, kept me going. 


Dodinsky

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Quiet

Prayer Flags 2  (2014, 2.9) by rchoephoto
Prayer Flags 2 (2014, 2.9), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

       If we can be quieter, more in the moment 
     with what is actually happening,
     a world of perception opens up for us 
     based on where we are, 
     not on where we one day hope to be.   

        Sharon Salzberg

Monday, February 10, 2014

Creating change

Kinton Ramen 5 (2014, 1.15) by rchoephoto
Kinton Ramen 5 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The only way we really create change 
is to enter any situation with the humility to listen
and to recognize the world as it is, and then 
the audacity to dream what it could be.
Jacqueline Novogratz

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Listening

Toronto 9 (2013. 10.27) by rchoephoto

Toronto 9 (2013. 10.27), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, 
the more we remain open to the transcendent forces that save us from idolatry. 
The more we listen to ourselves, the more we create God in our own image 
until God becomes a tawdry idol that looks and speaks like us.

Chris Hedges, Losing Moses On The Freeway: The 10 commandments in America



Saturday, February 8, 2014

Attitude

Traffic (2014, 2.5) by rchoephoto
Traffic (2014, 2.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The greatest discovery of my generation is 
that a human being can alter his life 
by altering his attitude. 

William James

Friday, February 7, 2014

Faith

RIC_0487 by rchoephoto
RIC_0487, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


       Faith is not the belief that God will do
     what you want. 
     It is the belief that God will do what is right.

        Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones

Thursday, February 6, 2014

True Home

RCC_2202 by rchoephoto
RCC_2202, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Find the love you seek,
by first finding the love within yourself.
Learn to rest in that place within you
that is your true home.


Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Art

Kinton Ramen 6 (2014, 1.15) by rchoephoto
Kinton Ramen 6 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
          
      Art is not jut for art's sake. 
      Art can also foster social and political awarenss. 

          Olivia Chow, My Journey

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Monday, February 3, 2014

Beloved

        
     Define yourself radically as one beloved by God.
     This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

        Brennan Manning, 
        Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Crucifix

RIC_2747-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_2747-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I learned that the crucifix 
does not represent justice alone, 
and that equally important are 
the concepts of love and grace.

Olivia Chow, My Journey

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Possibilities

Banner 1 (2014, 1.15) by rchoephoto

Banner 1 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Listen to the mustn'ts, child. 
Listen to the don'ts. 
Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. 
Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... 
Anything can happen, child. 
Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein



Friday, January 31, 2014

Journey

Toronto 10 (2013. 10.27) by rchoephoto
Toronto 10 (2013. 10.27), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, 
     which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. 
     Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, 
     for the footprints we leave behind are 
     as important as the path we will follow. 
     They’re part of the same journey — our story.

        Lori R. Lopez, 
        Dance Of The Chupacabras

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Starting-Position

"Queen's Park Subway Station" 1 (2014, 1.18) by rchoephoto
"Queen's Park Subway Station" 1 (2014, 1.18), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


In Navigation one must fix one's starting-position 
as precisely as one's objective. 

John Franklin, 
quoted in Sten Nadolny, The Discovery of Slowness

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Monday, January 27, 2014

Myth

Foggy Day 6 (2014, 2.11) by rchoephoto
Foggy Day 6 (2014, 2.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Myth is never a single story.
It is always a tree with many branches.

Roberto Calasso

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Love

Wheel Chair (2014, 1.18) by rchoephoto
Wheel Chair (2014, 1.18), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Love is the very difficult understanding 
that something other than yourself is real. 

Iris Murdock