Faith

RIC_9666, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Faith never knows where it is being led,
but it knows and loves the One who is leading.

Oswald Chambers

Secrets

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Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Paul Tournier

Sin

Distillery Distract 3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. 
Every other sin is a variation of theft. ... 
When you kill a man, you steal a life. 
You steal his wife's right to a husband, 
rob his children of a father. 
When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. 
When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. 

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

By your example

Candles 1 (2013, 4.13), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The world is changed by your example,

not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho

At Home

Distillery Distract 6, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The spiritual life is 

about becoming more at home in your own skin. 

Parker J. Palmer

Growth

RIC_9796, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Change is inevitable,

Growth is optional.

John C. Maxwell

A goodbye

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I have also learned that a goodbye is an opportunity for kindness, for forgiveness, for intimacy, and ultimately for love and a deepening acceptance of life as it is instead of what it was or what we may have wanted it to be. Goodbyes can be poignant, sorrowful, sometimes a relief, and, now and then, an occasion for joy. They are always transition moments that, when embraced, can be the door to a new life both for ourselves and for others.

Roger Housden, Ten Poems to Say Goodbye

At any given moment

RIC_0051, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

At any given moment you have the 
  power to say: This is not how the story is
  going to end.

Christine Mason Miller, Ordinary Sparkling Moments

Perspective

RIC_9773, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

From discord, find harmony.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity

Albert Einstein

Reaching without holding

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I envy the tree,

how it reaches

but never holds.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Failure

RIC_0019 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You might never fail on the scale I did,
but some failure in life is inevitable.
It is impossible to live without failing at something,
unless you live so cautiously
that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case,
you fail by default.

J.K. Rowling

Inter-Be

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To be is to inter-be.  We cannot just be by ourselves alone.  We have to inter-be with every other thing. 

Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step

Journey

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It is good to have an end to journey towards;

but it is the journey that matters.

in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Beauty

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Oscar Wilde

In Exile

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When you are in exile, you are living a borrowed life.

Alvaro Vieira Pinto, Brazilian philosopher

Paulo Freire & Antonio Faundez, Learning to Question: A Pedagogy of Liberation

Door

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Often God shuts a door in our face,
And then subsequently opens the door through which we need to go.

Catherine Marshall

Motion

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Motion is lotion!

Marilyn Legge

What you leave behind

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What you leave behind is not what is engraved upon a stone monument, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Pericles

Life

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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

With the eyes closed

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Quien ha visto con los ojos abiertos, puede volver a ver, pero con los ojos cerrados.

Who has seen with the eyes open can see again, but with the eyes closed.

Antonia Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwin