Truth

Mississauga 1 (2013, 9.18), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Love of the truth puts you on the spot.

Naropa Institute Motto

Art

Mississauga Chinatown 1 (2013, 6.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I believe involvement with art should be in partnership
with the quest for spiritual understanding. 
I must create, share, and hopefully insure
that myself and others will continue to unlock our potential 
for perceiving, experiencing, and expressing beauty.

Pomona Hallenbeck

Teachers

Mississauga Chinatown 6 (2013, 6.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     I have learned silence from the talkative,
     toleration from the intolerant, 
     and kindness from the unkind; 
     yet strange, 
     I am ungrateful to those teachers.

        Kahlil Gibran

Wonder

Mississauga 1 (2013, 6.19), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Always on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

E. B. White

On Human Condition

Mississauga Chinatown 5 (2013, 6.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom,
     decrees of damnation pronounced by society, 
     artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, 
     and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; 
     so long as the three great problems of the century - 
     the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption 
     of woman through hunger, the crippling of children 
     through lack of light—are unsolved; 
     so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world; 
     in other words, and with a still wider significance, 
     so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, 
     books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.

        Victor Hugo, Preface to Les Misérables

Culture

Mississauga Chinatown 3 (2013, 6.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Culture is not fate; it only offers templates, which 
individuals can finally accept, reject, or modify, and do. 

Gish Jen, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

Poem

Mississauga 2 (2013, 6.19), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A poem should not mean but be.

Archibald MacLeish

Interdependent Self

Mississauga 3 (2013, 6.19), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To have an interdependent self 

is not to have no self. 

It is to have a different self, 

the possession of which is a joy; 

the loss of which is disabling; 

and the restoration of which 

can be a joy, too. 

Gish Jen, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

Choice

Gate 1 (2013, 3.23), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


It's a choice. Every minute in your life is a choice, and we have a choice as to how we will see the world and how we will see ourselves in it.

James Orbinski

Memory

Korean Lamp, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The best things in life are

the people you love,

the places you've seen,

and the memories you've made

along the way.

Anonymous

Future

Half the sky, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The future is no more uncertain than the present. 

Walt Whitman

Courage

Bethesda Cross, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The cave you fear to enter
holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell

Freedom

Applewood UC 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

In that tiny space between all the givens is freedom.

Sue Bender

All in One

Light, AUC, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Great knowledge sees all in one.

Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

Community

Ying & Yang, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     We have all known the long loneliness,

     and we have found the answer is community.

        Dorothy Day

Symbols

RIC_6826-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

All our words about God are symbols.

Language itself is composed of symbols …

God is an experience. 

Paul Knitter

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We

RIC_7247-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I am the words and you are the melody,
I am the melody and you are the words. 

Hindu Mantra