Becoming the Path

RCC_3631, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You cannot travel the path

until you have become the path.

Buddha

The Path

RIC_3589-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You cannot travel the path 

until you have become the path. 

Buddha

Light

Light rays, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Make of youself a light.

Buddha

Myths

RIC_2579-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Myths derive from the visions of people searching their own most inward world. Out of myths cultures are founded.

Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

What you are and will be

RIC_8348-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What you are is what you have been.

 What you will be is what you do now. 

Buddha

Religion

RCC_2809, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Religion makes experience meaningful and sacred – or it expresses the fact that these things are true of experience, properly understood.

It does indeed add another dimension to experience. 

Marilynne Robinson

In presence

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Unless we completely inhabit ourselves, it’s not possible to be completely present.  If we are not completely present, we’re not inclusive – and when we’re not inclusive, that’s when we exclude others who have different views, different opinions, different upbringings – difference.  In presence, we see the beauty in what was previously unbeautiful – in difference and alikeness.  It’s all of life. 

Gina Sharpe, The Beautiful Mind: A Conversation with Gina Sharpe, Parabola, 35:4

Through One

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Through one all are known.

Through one all are also seen.

Buddha

You

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You can look the whole world over and never find anyone more deserving of love than yourself.

Buddha

Do not harm others

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All beings tremble before violence.  All fear death.  All love life.  See yourself in others.  Then whom can you hurt?  What harm can you do? 

Buddha

Prayer

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Prayer is not a pious gesture at all.
It is a respnse to the One whose heart beats with ours.

Joan Chittister

Failure

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

Robin Sharma

Temple

Suppose you consider your neighbourhood to be your temple - how would you treat your temple, and what would be your spiritual task there?

Jack Kornfield