We

Humber Valley United Church 55, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The word we names our sight-lines.
We refers to the boundaries of a way of seeing.
It's true, each of us can only live life in the first person.
But we is not neutral. We share with some other a lens
that may be built into every frame of reference.
Experience, categories, personality, gender, language, 
race, culture combine to form why and how we see.

Mark Labberton, The Dangerous Act of Loving your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus

Heart beat

RIC_0688-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


A single beat from the heart of a lover
is capable of driving out a hundred sorrows.

Naquib Mahfouz

Transformation

HVUC 14, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The great metaphors from all spiritual traditions – 
     grace, liberation, being born again, awakening from
     illusion – testify that it is possible to transcend the
     conditioning of my past and do a new thing. 

        Sam Keen

Creativity

HVUC 19, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Creativity is God's gift to us.
Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

Julia Cameron

Joy

HVUC 16, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Joy is not incidental to your spiritual quest.

It is vital.

Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Embracing Darkness

HVUC 11, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


We do not spring into life perfectly formed. We each have our fault lines, and it is not by turning away from them that life suddenly takes on its full glory. No, I believe that we come to our fullness not in spite of our darkness, but in the embrace of it. 

Roger Housden, Risking Everything

Errors

HVUC 10, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

James Joyce