To see heaven

Christmas Lights 12, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To see

heaven one

wants a star. 

Cid Corman

A reminder

Lighted Cross, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     There are no unsacred places:
     there are only sacred places
     and desecrated places.

        Wendell  Berry, How to be a Poet

Wisdom

RIC_6838-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Orison Swett Marden

Optimism

RCC_9929, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

    Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.
   Because unless you believe that the future can be
   better, you are unlikely to step up and take
   responsibility for making it so.

    Noam Chomsky

Gardeners of the Spirit

DSC_4931, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit,

Who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth

As without light nothing flowers.

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

Light

RIC_4621
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

We light a light
in the name of the God who creates life,
in the name of the Saviour who loves life,
in the name of the Spirit who is the fire of life.

J. Philip Newell, Celtic Treasure: Daily Scripture and Prayer

Year of the Tiger

RCC_9290
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye.
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? ...

When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

The Tyger, Songs of Innocence & of Experience, William Blake

Still Small Voice Within

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Only when we are silent can we begin to hear the voice that is truly our own – what the Quakers call “the still small voice within.” … The source of this voice – which may be without sound, and yet is heard – is called by many different names: the inner guide, guardian angel, spirit guide, the collective unconscious, or just plain intuition. Actually all of us hear the whispering of this voice every single day of our lives, but many ignore it.

Rick Fields, Chop Wood, Carry Water