Becoming the Path

RCC_3631, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You cannot travel the path

until you have become the path.

Buddha

Seeing

RC1_4536, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     How you see is what you see. And to see rightly 
     is to be able to be fully present — 
     without fear, without bias, and without judgment.

        Richard Rohr

Growing Old

Christian Island Ferry, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     One great thing about growing old is
     that nothing is going to lead to anything. 
     Everything is of the moment. 

        Joseph Campbell, 
        A Joseph Campbell Companion:
        Reflections on the Art of Living

Mind

Camp Fire 10, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, 

but a fire to be kindled. 

Plutarch

Harmony

Christian Island 1 (2013, 9.21), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Don't grieve.

Anything you lose comes around in another form.

Rumi

The Universe Story

RCC_9953, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Everything tells the story of the universe.
The winds tell the story, literally, not just imaginatively. The story has its imprint everywhere, and that is why it is so important to know the story. 
If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself; you do not know anything. 

Thomas Berry, The Universe Story

Agent of Hope

Offering Plate, Christian Island, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Perhaps faith is only created in the doing, happiness
     in the giving, and meaning in the courage to take
     risks for the sake of an ideal. All I know is that the
     greatest achievement in life is to have been, for one
     other person, even for one moment, an agent of
     hope.

        Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World

From Life

RCC_9877, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Faith comes from life, commitment, not from proof.

W. Gunther Plaut, One Voice

How to live

RCC_9941, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



This is our constant problem – how to live with people and remain free,
how to live with things and remain independent.

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

Photography

RCC_9994, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Photography records what awareness observes.

Joel Meyerowitz

Imagination

RCC_9936, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   The role of the imagination is to create new meanings 

   and to discover connections that, even if obvious, 

   seem to escape detection. Imagination begins with

   intuition, not intellect.

     Paul Rand

Beginning

RC1_4533, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   Once we’ve thrown off our habitual

   paths, we think all is lost; but it’s only 

   here that the new and the good begins.

    

    Leo Tolstoy

Wholeness

RCC_9906, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   Wholeness is not the product of self-sufficiency or 

   independence, but rather of the genuinely inclusive 

   communion that results from sharing our humanity

   with one another in light of the grace of God.

      Thomas E. Reynolds, Vulnerable Communion: A Theology of Disability and Hospitality

Returning thanks

RCC_3648, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Saint Ambrose

Living

RCC_9822, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr

I could live my life believing there are no miracles, no magic

and no deeper meaning; or I could believe that the

impossible is possible, that the heart can love in all

circumstances, that hope is infinite, promises are forever.

Leanne O'Neil

Imperfections

RCC_4017, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

It's the imperfections that make the charm. 

Rebecca Moses

Presence

RIC_8532-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

As long as there is a lower class, I am in it.
  As long as there is a criminal element, I’m of it.
  As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Eugene Debs

Seeking perfection?

RIC_8354-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who

     cannot attain it in anything.

      Gustave Flaubert

To know you

RIC_8489-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     If I really want to know who you are, I 
     am not going to ask what you know. I 
     am not even going to ask what you 
     believe. If I really want to know what 
     you’re about, the question I will ask 
     is: “What do you want?” 
     What do you love?” 
      
      Jamie Smith, Desiring the Kingdom

Grace

RIC_8359_edited-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

May God give us thankful hearts

and keep us in friendship

to our lives' end.

Amen.

Merchant Taylors' Company Grace, William S. Kervin, A Year of Grace

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