Seeking

Monarch Butterfly 3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

In seeking what is essential,

we become essential.

Mark Nepo,

The Book of Awakening

Unsayable

Kingston Road United Church 1 (2013, 2.25), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

This has always been the driving mystery

of all sacred wisdom:

The only thing worth saying are

those things that are unsayable.

Mark Nepo,

The Book of Awakening

To live

Community 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the times comes to let it go,
to let it go.

Mary Oliver, In Blackwater Woods

Wisdom

Snow Day 7 (2013, 2.16), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door
     that's unlocked and opens inward, as long as 
     it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. 

        Ludwig Wittgenstein

Mirror

James' 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


When men created the mirror, he began to lose his soul. 
He became more concerned with his image than with his soul. 
Thus, he tells himself a story that aligns with the social image. 

Stephen Covey, The 3rd Alternative

Helping

Second Automatic Door at KRU, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Helping other people can be a cure not just for
     those who are in need but for your soul as well.

        Marinela Reka

Beloved

RIC_0250, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

Raymond Carver,
Late Fragment

Journey

RIC_7818-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Mistrust no one who offers you
water from a well,
a songbird's feather,
something that's mended twice.
Always travel lighter

than the heart.

Lorna Crozier,
Packing for the Future: Instructions

Travel

RIC_3271, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Always travel lighter
than the heart.

Lorna Crozier,

Packing for the Future:  Instructions,
What the Living Won't Let Go

Story

Jar 1 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The story that lives is the story that's told. 

Colin Hesterly, When I Grow Up

On faith

RIC_2310, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Believing that your faith tradition alone contains God 
is like believing the rain falls only in your cup.

John Shore

Care

Prayer Beads (2013, 2.9), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When people care for you,
they can straighten out your soul.

Langston Hughs

Peace

RCC_0766, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

There is no way to peace,

peace is the way.

A. J. Muste

Discovery

RIC_2219, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Discovery consists of seeing
     what everybody has seen
     and thinking
     what nobody has thought.

        Albert Szent-Györgyi

At the light

RCC_5997-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Everything arrives at the light.

Lorna Crozier

Your adventure

Candle 2 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Your adventure has to be coming right out of your own interior.

Joseph Campbell

Grace

DSC_4219, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


I do not at all understand the mystery of grace –
only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us
where it found us. 

Anne Lamott

Vulnerable

RIC_5490-1 b/w, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable

move among mysteries.

Theodore Roethke

Seeing

RIC_4522, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

On a clear day

I can see

so far

into

myself.

Richard C. Choe, Seeing

Perspective

RIC_7662-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The most important power we have is

the power to help select the lens

through which we see reality.

David Brooks

Out of no way

Shadow 1 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

God always makes a way out of no way.

Veronica Goines

Perspective

Afternoon shadow 1 (2013,2.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     How we see things determines what we do,
     and what we do determines the result we get.

        Stephen R. Covey, The 3rd Alternative

Questions I ask

RIC_2582-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

My story is in the questions I ask.

Maria Ochoa

Memory

Korean Lamp, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The best things in life are

the people you love,

the places you've seen,

and the memories you've made

along the way.

Anonymous

Service

Jar 2 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

Hope

A matter of time, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When hope is not pinned

wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation,

it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Whole Story

RCC_1129, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


I don't know my whole story.
And if I don't know my whole story,
I can't heal myself.

Richard Wagamese

Hope

Candles 3 (2013,1.29), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Dum spiro spero.

While I breathe, I hope.

Cicero