Living

Neighbourhood 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The divine lives within you.
Live from your own centre.

Joseph Campbell

Meaning

Lamp & reflection, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Being alive is the meaning. 

Joseph Campbell

Compassion

RC1_4927, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The purpose of the journey 

is compassion.

Joseph Campbell

I love you

RC1_4882, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I love you

Not only for what you are

But for what I am

When I am with you.

Roy Croft, The Recognition

Yes

Chandelier 3 (2013, 1.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

After the final no there comes a yes

and on that yes the future world depends.

Wallace Stevens

Our only friend

Neighbourhood 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The world speaks everything to us.

It is our only friend.

William Stafford

Surviving

Planet of the Bamboos, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We're never gonna survive

unless we get a little bit crazy.

Seal

On the edge

Half the Sky 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If you're not on the edge,

you are taking up too much room.

Bumper sticker

Awakening

Operator, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

How did I get so lucky

to have my heart awakened

to others and their suffering?

Pema Chödrön

Future

Half the sky, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The future is no more uncertain than the present. 

Walt Whitman

Changes

RC1_3581, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     This is how the world always changes.
     Everyday people not waiting for someone else to 
     fix things or come to their rescue, 
     but simply stepping forward, working together, 
     figuring out how to make things better. 

        Margaret J. Wheatley

In each other

_DSC7173, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.

Rumi

Possibilities

RIC_6167-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Only those who will risk going too far,

can possibly find out how far one can go. 

T. S. Eliot

Radical Imagination

Street Light on Kingston Road 7, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Radical imagination begins with a move beyond complaint and resistance, beyond reactive tinkering or hunkering down or cynical accommodation. The first big move is to an alternative picture of 
how things could be instead. 

Anthony Weston, A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries

Visibility

Rays (2013, 1.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     I do think visibility is important. 
     I do think that the tide of history only moves forward
     when everybody is feeling visible. 

        Anderson Cooper

Light

Candle 2 at J&J, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path

without brightening our own. 

Ben Sweetland

Light

Lamp in Snow, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
     To change something, build a new model that makes
     the existing model obsolete.

        R. Buckminster Fuller

Writer

Writing tools, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, the wounds so secret that we ourselves are barely aware of them, and to patiently explore them, know them, illuminate them, to won those pains and wounds, and to make them a conscious part of our spirits and our writing.

Orhan Pamuk, My Father's Suitcase

Vocation

Winter Vacation, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Your job is to find what the world is trying to be.

William Stafford

Hope

Dec. 28, '12, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. Hope does not come with the right attitude.
Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is an action. Hope is doing something. ...
Hope demands for others what we demand for ourselves. Hope does not separate us from them. Hope sees in our enemy our own face.

Chris Hedges, Real Hope Is About Doing Something, truthdig