All Serious daring comes from within. 

Eudora Welty

Art

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul – 
and you answer. 

Terri Guiffemets 

Poetry

     There is nothing but beauty – 

     and beauty has only one perfect expression,

     Poetry.

     All the rest is a lie. 

       Stéphane Mallarmè

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

Elegance

RIC_3178-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Survival is important.
Thriving is elegant.

Maya Angelou

Nowhere

Shadow 2 (2014, 3.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Find yourself in the middle of nowhere. 

Former Eastend Tourism Slogan

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

Healing

RIC_3229-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Healing may not be so much about getting better,

As about letting go of everything that isn’t you 

– all of the expectations, all of beliefs – 

and becoming who you are.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Courage

Stained Glass 4 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Life shrinks or expands 
in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Creating your own miracle

Field of Snow1 (2014, 3.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     You can create your own miracle. But you do it by
     never looking past all the little steps along the way. 

        Mikaela Shiffrin

What you seek

Prayer Flags 1 (2014, 2.9), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I am that which I am seeking.

Franciscan Saying

Worship

St. James United Church, Toronto 5 (2014, 2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I believe how I live my life everyday
is my act of worship.

Jack Layton

Darkness

St. James United Church, Toronto 3 (2014,,2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

Joseph Brodsky

A Miracle

St. James United Church, Toronto 2 (2014,,2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

      Here is what I was trying to figure out: 

     how a miracle happens. 

     A great work of art—
     something that makes people pay attention, 

     return to the work again and again,

     and reexamine their assumptions,

     something that infuriates, hurts, and confronts—

     a great work of art is always a miracle.

        Masha Gessen

Creating Change

St. James United Church, Toronto 4 (2014,,2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The only way we really create change is 

to enter any situation with the humility to listen

and to recognize the world as it is,

and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Memory

Heart 2 (2014, 2.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The world begins and ends in memory;
What I remember is what I am.

Glen Sorestad, Aide Memoire