Discovery

RIC_0650-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Nothing has been lost but much is hidden.

Pat Schneider, 

How the Light Gets In

Metaphor

RIC_0455-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     When we humans dare to approach the deepest and most holy
     experiences of our lives, all language becomes metaphor. 

        Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In

Participating in Mystery

RIC_6089-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     If I am made in the image of the creator, 

     then I am myself a creator, 

     and my acts of creating participate in mystery. 

        Pat Schneider, 

        How the Light Gets In

Open to Love

RIC_0777-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The more we open ourselves to love,
the larger our capacity for love becomes. 

Pat Schneider, 
How the Light Gets In

The Mystery

Ghost Ranch 2 (2013, 7.23), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

All of us live in relation to mystery, and becoming conscious of that relationship 

can be a beginning point for a spiritual practice — whether we experience mystery in nature, 

in ecstatic love, in the eyes of our children, our friends, the animals we love, 

or in more strange experiences of intuition, synchronicity, or prescience.

Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In

Perspective

RC1_9577, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The particular, concrete image is the lens through which we see the world. 

Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In

Prayer

Ghost Ranch (2013, 7.), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Prayer is, for me, an intentional openness to 
the presence of mystery in my life.
Sometimes it is labor, sometimes ecstatic surprise. 
Sometimes both.

Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In