Essence

RIC_3339-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Be humble for you are made of Earth,

Be noble for you are made of stars.

A Serbian Proverb

Our Visions

RIC_3371-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Our visions begins with our desires.

Audre Lorde

The Unknown

RIC_3354-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

More and more I've become convinced that 

the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

P. L. Travers

Life

RIC_3272-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Life is not what it's supposed to be.

It's what it is.

The way you cope with it is

what makes the difference.

Virginia Satir

Silence

RIC_3307-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Within each of us there is a silence – 

a silence as vast as a universe.

We are afraid of it …

And we long for it.

Gunilla Norris,

Inviting Silence

Myths

RIC_3292-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Myths are not literally true,
but they do not represent untruths, lies, or fantasies;
they are metaphorically true and often are the only way
to communicate the truth they represent.

Margaret Somerville, 
The Ethical Imagination

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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Renunciation

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Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.

Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching