Emptiness

RIC_8022-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion. 

Tibetan Buddhist Saying

Action

East Plains United Church 3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     All that is necessary for evil to triumph is
     for good men (and women) to do nothing.

         Edmund Burke

Wisdom

RIC_6825-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you
     would rather have talked.

       Mark Twain

Imagination

RIC_1900-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life, then,
     is to produce out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the
     society we want to live in.

       Northrop Frye

Contribution

RIC_4919-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The idea of contribution is especially instructive because it lies in the area that unites the “I” and the “we.” We contribute because we are part of something larger than our own lives and efforts, but the form of our contribution is based on our uniqueness and our individuality. 

Carol Ochs, Women and Spirituality

The big art

RIC_4977-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship.

The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

Falling in love with a revolution

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I’d learn that it’s possible to fall in love with a revolution – then doubt it, fight with it, lose faith in it, and return with a sense of humour and a harder, lasting love. I would have to learn the same thing about church when I was much older, and it would be no easier.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Feeding

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

There’s hunger beyond food that’s expressed in food, and that’s why feeding is always a kind of miracle.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Faith

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Faith, for me, isn’t an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

God's promise

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

God’s promise was never that life would be fair. God’s promise was that, when we had to confront the unfairness of life, we would not have to do it alone for God would be with us.

Harold S. Kushner, The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-Third Psalm