Showing posts with label St. Michael's University. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Michael's University. Show all posts

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Nature

RIC_1733 by rchoephoto
RIC_1733 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You have to walk into Nature with your emotional self,
not with your intellectual self.
You need to open wide you heart so that you can become moist
and drink deeply from the emotional echoes that you receive
from the frown of a gnarled tree or the twist of a branch.

Malidoma Somé, The Healing Wisdom of Africa



Thursday, March 24, 2011

Power

RIC_1735a by rchoephoto
RIC_1735a a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We cannot avoid using power,
cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world.
So let us,
cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction,
love powerfully.

Martin Buber



Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Interconnectedness

RIC_1732 by rchoephoto
RIC_1732 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.
That the happiness of one person or nation is the happiness of humanity.

His holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama


Monday, March 14, 2011

Bearing Witness

RIC_1706 by rchoephoto
RIC_1706 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Once we know, what do we do? ...

... May be the only hope is that our humanity might kick into a higher gear, that the more we admit to seeing, the more we will beleive we are not that different from each other.

Kim Echlin, The Disappeared


Saturday, March 12, 2011

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Within Us


RCC_5539
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Within us is the soul of the whole,
the wise silence,
the universal beauty,
the eternal One.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Quality of Life


RCC_5537
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

The quality of life is initially and inevitably predicated by love. ... And what is at stake is always the quality of life, which people know cannot be bettered, unless love is factored in.


Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Municipal Mind: Manifestos for the Creative City