Journey

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

Starting-Position

"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

A Different Language

Coffee sign (2014, 1.19), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

Blessing

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

Us

and this,

bless.

Amen.

Quaker Blessing

Myth

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

Love

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

Hell

Foggy Day 9 (2013, 1.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What is hell? 

I maintain that it is the suffering of

being unable to love. 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Prayer

Cross 1 (2014, 1.19), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


O let me wear secretly ...
the sacred mark impressed by
Your own hand.

Ravindranath Tagore

State of Grace

RIC_7780-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

        
     State of Grace:
     It's achieving the peace and
     freedom of living in the moment,
     and not allowing past wrongs
     to colour the present.

        Olivia Chow, My Journey

Darkness

Foggy Day 1 (2014, 1.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


It is not by looking into the light that we become luminous,
but by plunging into the darkness.

Carl G. Jung

Opposites

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


     You cannot know a thing
     unless you know its opposite.
     You cannot become sincere
     unless you have experienced
     hypocrisy and decided
     to fight against it.

        Abu Uthman Maghrebi

Companion

Shadow 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Forget your profile;
it is out of fashion.
But pay attention to the one
walking close to you
whose existence you do not believe in.

Antonio Machado

Life

Victoria University 2 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     We spend our life until we're thirty
     deciding what parts of ourself to stuff into 
     the invisible bag we drag behind us and 
     we spend the rest of our lives 
     trying to get them again.

        Robert Bly

Beauty

Kinton Ramen 7 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Khalil Gibran

Understanding

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


     It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand
     that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. 

        Mark Twain

Culture

Kinton Ramen 3 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Culture does not make people,
people make culture.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Accountability

Foggy Day 4 (2014, 1.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

With great power,
comes great responsibility.

Voltaire

Most interesting

Foggy Day 5 (2014, 1.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The things that doesn't fit
is the things that is most interesting.

Richard Feynman

Future

Foggy Day 3 (2014, 1.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     I cannot be me without you
     and we cannot be us without them,
     and together we have a future.

        Philip Carter

Beauty.

Foggy Day 2 (2014, 2.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Ex divination pulchritudine
esse omnium derivatur. 

From the beauty of the Divine
comes all that is. 

Thomas Aquinas

Wounds

Foggy Day 1 (2014, 1.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Our wounds are often the openings
into the best and most beautiful part of us.

David Richo

News

RIC_1723, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

How can it be that it is not a news item

when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, 

but it is news when the stock market loses two points?

Pope Francis, Joy of the Gospel

We are

DSC_0351, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We are already that we are seeking. 

Kyan Douglas

Saving the World

RIC_0299-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Zen poet Thich Nhat Hanh was asked
“what do we most need to do to save our world?” 
His answer was this: “What we most need to do is 
to hear within us the sounds of the Earth crying.”

What Counts in Life

Gone (2013, 1.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


        What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived.
     It is what difference we have made to the lives of others 
     that will determine the significance of the life we lead. 

        Nelson Mandela

We

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

I am who we are.

Anonymous

Conviction of the Heart

Gift Box (2014, 1.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Growth of consciousness

does not depend on the might of the intellect

but on the conviction of the heart. 

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Beautiful

Candle 1 (2013, 1.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Always the beautiful answer

who asks a more beautiful question.

E. E. Cummings

Becoming the Path

RCC_3631, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You cannot travel the path

until you have become the path.

Buddha

Privacy

Kensington Market 2013, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, 
or the "consent of the governed" is meaningless... 
The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed. 

Edward Snowden

Future

_DSC6555, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Our future is becoming,
     and it shapes us even more than our past.

        Margaret Somerville, 
        The Ethical Imagination