Hope

RIC_8728-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I would love to live
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.

John O'Donohue, 
Fluent

Process

RIC_0383-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


You can't push the river.
It flows on its own.

Pema Chödrön

Blessings

Sunrise 5 (2013, 8.13), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Great spirit, father of us all,
Dear mother earth,
Combine your might
And use our love
To make this body whole,
For now and forever.

Judith Billings

Choice to make

RIC_8758-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Live then or now.

It's impossible to be

in two places at once.

Mary Anne Radmacher,

Honey in Your Heart

Artist

RIC_9059-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Not everyone can become a great artist,
     but a great artist can come from everywhere. 

        Anton Ego, Ratatouille (movie by Pixar)

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

Music

RIC_1220-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When words leave off,

music begins. 

Heinrich Heine

Creation

RCC_5860-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     I am a scientist who thinks it wise to enter the doors of
     creation not with a lion tamers’ whip and chair, but with
     the reverence humankind has traditionally summoned for
     entering places of worship: a temple, a mosque, or a
     cathedral. A sacred grove, as ancient as time.
      
       Barbara Kingsolver

I

RIC_7836-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

How am I a self
when I am
constantly disappearing?


Tina Schumann, Vanishing Point

All Beings

RCC_1677
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of human beings. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

Maimonides