Suffering & Happiness

RIC_4682-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The truth is: my suffering doesn't have to be 
     out of view for you to be happy, and you don't have 
     to quiet your grief for me to be peaceful.
     Allowing our suffering and happiness to touch each 
     other opens a depth of compassion that helps us 
     to complete each other. 

        Mark Nepo, 
        Hearing the Cries of the World, Parabola (Summer 2013)

Collaboration

RIC_9599-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Collaboration is a process, a process of learning, and
     it's as much as a learning about oneself as about
     others. Moreover, we can learn about others only
     through ourselves. In fact we can have a sense of
     the other only through a greater understanding of
     who we are. 

       Barry Svigals, in an interviewby Jeff Zaleski, Parabola (Summer 2012)

Experiencing beauty

RIC_6290
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Although the wind

blows terribly here,

the moonlight also leaks

between the roof planks

of this ruined house. 

Izumi Skikibu

We become available to the beauty of the moment as it is,
 and available to one another as we are. 

Joyce Kornblatt, This Ruined House, The Beautiful Mind: A Conversation with Gina Sharpe, Parabola, 35:4