RIC_3449, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Beauty is what’s left
when all the illusions
are scoured away.
Mark Nepo,
Facing the Lion, Being the Lion: Finding Inner Courage Where It Lives
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Gratitude
RCC_8451, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Becoming a butterfly
"How does one become a butterfly?"
she asked pensively.
"You mustwant to fly so much
that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
Trina Paulus, Hope for the flowers
Monday, June 27, 2011
Parting
RCC_9757, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?
And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
Walt Whitman, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Humour
Truth is more digestible when it’s marinated in humour.
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Faith
Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.
Emmanuel Levinas
Friday, June 24, 2011
Religion
Religion will be the medium by which people express their values for a long time to come, so it’s important to understand what brings out the best and worst in it.
Robert Wright
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Sacred Pause
I need to take a sacred pause,
as if I were a sun-warmed rock
in the centre of a rushing river.
Dawna Markova
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Maturity
RIC_2971-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Maturity:
Loving without losing identity.
Marion Woodman
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
A Prayer of Thanksgiving
Creator God,
We give you thanks for all creation –
The planets, the cosmos, the waters, the land, the air, the plants, the trees,
The four legged, the two legged, the wing-ed,
We give thanks for creation made whole and good and wise.
We give thanks that you speak to us
In ways we can hear in our hearts.
We give you thanks that you hear us
In ways we can be heard in truth.
We give thanks that you lead us
In ways we can lead others in humility.
We give you thanks that you love us
In ways we can love ourselves and others with courage.
And we give thanks that you gather us in community
In ways we can live lives of justice, kindness, and humility.
Miigwech. Nya:weh
Amen.
Kim Uyede-Kai, Prayer offered at Francis Sandy Theological School Annual Celebration and Graduation (June 17, 2011)
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Monday, June 20, 2011
In Others
In others, we meet ourselves in a thousand disguises.
Marion Woodman,
Bone: A Journal of Wisdom, Strength, and Healing
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Own wings
No bird soars too high,
if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake, The Narriage of Heven and Hell
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Harmony
_DSC5472, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Who sees all beings in one’s own Self
and one’s own Self in all beings,
loses all fear.
The Isa Upanishad
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Capabilities
RIC_6283, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Your capabilities are as wide as God's closet.
August Wilson
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Stories
All stories are full of bias and uniqueness;
they mix fact with meaning.
This is root of their power.
Stories allow us to see something familiar through new eyes.
Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
Monday, June 13, 2011
Where you are
If you don’t know where you’re going,
turn around and make sure you know where you’re coming from.
African saying
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Friendship
RCC_4196, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Nothing among human things
has such power to keep our gaze
fixed ever more intensively upon God
than friendship.
Simone Weil
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Life
RIC_5281-1*, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Learn from yesterday,
live for today,
hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein
Friday, June 10, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Becoming Yourself
The things that is really hard, and really amazing,
is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Solitude
We must reserve a little back-shop, all our own, entirely free, wherein to establish our true liberty and principal retreat and solitude.
Montaigne
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Seen by the heart
When we are seen by the heart
we are seen for who we are.
Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
Monday, June 6, 2011
First be who you really are
RIC_3213, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you really need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Creativity
RIC_1905, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
Pablo Picasso
Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Stories
RC1_0151, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
And true to what?
Stories always pose that question: what kind of truth is being told?
Stories never resolve that question:
their work is to remind us that we have to live with complicated truths.
Arthur W. Frank, letting stories breathe: a socio-narratology
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Way to freedom
_DSC5471, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
The fastest way to freedom is to feel your feelings.
Gita Bellin
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