All Serious daring comes from within. 

Eudora Welty

Essence

RIC_3339-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Be humble for you are made of Earth,

Be noble for you are made of stars.

A Serbian Proverb

Elegance

RIC_3178-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Survival is important.
Thriving is elegant.

Maya Angelou

Our Visions

RIC_3371-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Our visions begins with our desires.

Audre Lorde

Life

RIC_3272-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Life is not what it's supposed to be.

It's what it is.

The way you cope with it is

what makes the difference.

Virginia Satir

Silence

RIC_3307-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Within each of us there is a silence – 

a silence as vast as a universe.

We are afraid of it …

And we long for it.

Gunilla Norris,

Inviting Silence

Myths

RIC_3292-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Myths are not literally true,
but they do not represent untruths, lies, or fantasies;
they are metaphorically true and often are the only way
to communicate the truth they represent.

Margaret Somerville, 
The Ethical Imagination

Healing

RIC_3229-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Healing may not be so much about getting better,

As about letting go of everything that isn’t you 

– all of the expectations, all of beliefs – 

and becoming who you are.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Creating your own miracle

Field of Snow1 (2014, 3.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     You can create your own miracle. But you do it by
     never looking past all the little steps along the way. 

        Mikaela Shiffrin

Transformation

Christian Island 2 (2013, 9.21), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Possibilities

Banner 1 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. 

Listen to the don'ts. 

Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. 

Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... 

Anything can happen, child. 

Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein

Journey

Toronto 10 (2013. 10.27), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, 
     which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. 
     Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, 
     for the footprints we leave behind are 
     as important as the path we will follow. 
     They’re part of the same journey — our story.

        Lori R. Lopez, 
        Dance Of The Chupacabras

Prayer

Cross 1 (2014, 1.19), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


O let me wear secretly ...
the sacred mark impressed by
Your own hand.

Ravindranath Tagore

State of Grace

RIC_7780-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

        
     State of Grace:
     It's achieving the peace and
     freedom of living in the moment,
     and not allowing past wrongs
     to colour the present.

        Olivia Chow, My Journey

News

RIC_1723, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

How can it be that it is not a news item

when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, 

but it is news when the stock market loses two points?

Pope Francis, Joy of the Gospel

Becoming the Path

RCC_3631, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You cannot travel the path

until you have become the path.

Buddha

Faith

RCC_5991, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


As our faith deepens,
the "container" in wihci fear arises gets bigger. 

Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

Seeing

RC1_4536, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     How you see is what you see. And to see rightly 
     is to be able to be fully present — 
     without fear, without bias, and without judgment.

        Richard Rohr

Birthing

RIC_1048-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

He not busy being born is busy dying. 

Bob Dylan

Sacred

RIC_1206-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Earth's crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God,

But only he who sees takes off his shoes;

The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning