What Matters

RIC_4301, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What matters is what we bear away within us:

the story, the song of our living.

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song

Love

DSC_3639a, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We find the truest expression of ourselves in the people we love. 

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song

To be truly wise

RIC_3078, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To be truly wise is to understand

that knowing and not knowing are one.

Each has the power to transform. 

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song

Sacrifice

RCC_1997, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Every spiritual enhancing experience demands a sacrifice of us. For me, the price of admission was a willingness to let that solid block of anger dissolve.

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song

We are One

RC1_7742, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We are all Story. … We are energy moving forward to the fullest possible expressions of ourselves, …

We are one. We are, in the end, one story, one song, one spirit, one soul.

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song

Teachings

RCC_9504, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The ancient teachings are not a romantic throwback to a vanished lifestyle

but a resonant of our contemporary responsibilities.

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song

Innocence

RIC_9333, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Innocence is more than lack of knowledge and experience;

it’s learning to look at the world with wonder.

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song