Centre of Our Being

RIC_1464-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     May we all grow in grace and peace, and not neglect the

     silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will

     not fail us. 

       Thomas Merton

Silences

RIC_1468-1a, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

My silences have not protected me.

Your silence will not protect you.

Audre Lorde

Power

RIC_1424-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

Life Story

RIC_1455-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     How often do we tell our own life story? How often do

     we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life

     goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our

     account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely

     the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but

     - mainly - to ourselves.

       Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

Art

RIC_1489-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Art on my view is a form of immersion and connection; art is a way of entering deeply into relationship with non-human materials and with human communities. ... Art shows the self of the artist as a place or rather a field of forces in that world: a zone of traversal, flight, or concretization.

Crispin Sartwell, End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History

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