All Serious daring comes from within. 

Eudora Welty

Elegance

RIC_3178-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Survival is important.
Thriving is elegant.

Maya Angelou

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

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

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

Fear

RIC_3470-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When fear dominates, 

our sense of possibility collapses. 

Sharon Salzberg, 

Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

Except Love

RIC_0926-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Nothing is mysterious,
no human relation.
Except love.

Susan Sontag

Play

RIC_3446, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. 

And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. 

What more is needed? 

Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus?  

If we waste time looking for life’s meaning,

we may have no time to live — or to play.

Arthur C. Clarke

Curiosity

RIC_1044-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Look at everything. 
     Don't close your eyes to the world around you. 
     Look and become curious and interested  in
     what there is to see. 

        John Cage

Wisdom

RIC_0965-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Don't allow your wounds 
to transform you into someone you are not. 

Paulo Coelho

Fear

RIC_0709-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.

W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety

Through Love

RIC_0947-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Hope becomes faith through love. 

Søren Kierkegaard

Hope

RIC_8728-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I would love to live
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.

John O'Donohue, 
Fluent

Integrity

RIC_0887-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If you want to be successful, 

you must respect one rule. 

'Never lie to yourself.' 

Paulo Coelho

Seeing

RIC_0719-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The eye with which I see God is 
the same eye with which God sees me. 

Meister Eckardt

Finding Self

Five Oaks 9 (2013, 8.12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     As I lost my speech, I gained my voice.
     As I diminished, I grew.
     As I lost so much, I started to find myself.

        Neil Selinger

Fear

RIC_0691-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. 

Pema Chödrön, 

When Things Fall Apart: 

Heart Advice for Difficult Times

Discovery

RIC_0650-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Nothing has been lost but much is hidden.

Pat Schneider, 

How the Light Gets In