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