Future

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     Our future is becoming,
     and it shapes us even more than our past.

        Margaret Somerville, 
        The Ethical Imagination

The Path

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You cannot travel the path 

until you have become the path. 

Buddha

To be

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Esse est percipi.

To be is to be perceived.

George Berkley

Risk Taking

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Sometimes not having any idea where we're going
works out better than we could possibly have imagined. 

Ann Patchett, What Now?

Truth

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Truth can appear as disaster in a land
of things unspoken.

Joy Harjo

Belonging

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I am not saying that it would be lovely if we could be
connected; I am saying, we are connected. Whether 
or not I like the idea, you belong to me. We belong 
to all creatures, and all creatures belong to us. 

N. Gordon Cosby, 
Seized by the Power of a Great Affection

Creative Challenge

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     Can we approach life itself as a creative challenge, through
     the medium of whatever it is that we do on a daily basis?

        David Ulrich, 
        The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity

Real

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Life is real only then when I am.

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff

Creativity

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     The fundamental task of creativity, therefore, 
     is to be fully present – in this moment, and with all that it contains.

        David, Ulrich, The Widening Stream

Peace

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Paz, peace, paix,
mir, shalom, salaam:
we will plant olive trees
where before
there were thorns!

Federico Mayor

I am

Echo Canyon (2013, 7.), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I am still every age that I have been.

Madeleine L'Engle

Knowing

Santa Fe 41 (2013, 7.17), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You must know yourself to know the world.

Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum, 

Walking the Way: 

81 Zen Encounters with the Tao Te Ching, 

Sacred

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Ask what is in the wind

ask what is sacred.

Margaret Atwood,

The Circle Poems

Nothing Has Been Lost

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     Do not believe in redemption –
     nothing has been lost.

        Theresa Vincent, 
        Nothing Has Been Lost

Participating in Mystery

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     If I am made in the image of the creator, 

     then I am myself a creator, 

     and my acts of creating participate in mystery. 

        Pat Schneider, 

        How the Light Gets In

The Mystery

Ghost Ranch 2 (2013, 7.23), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

All of us live in relation to mystery, and becoming conscious of that relationship 

can be a beginning point for a spiritual practice — whether we experience mystery in nature, 

in ecstatic love, in the eyes of our children, our friends, the animals we love, 

or in more strange experiences of intuition, synchronicity, or prescience.

Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In

Pilgrimage

Santa Fe 22 (2013, 7.17), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Pilgrimage is a transformative journey to a sacred Centre. 

Phil Cousineau, 

The Art of Pilgrimage

Seeing

RIC_7952-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

How do I know what I think until I see what I say? 

E. M. Foster

Art

RIC_6904-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Art does not reproduce what we see.
It makes us see.

Paul Klee

War & Labour

Untitled, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The essential act of war is destruction, 

not necessarily of human lives, 

but of the products of human labour.

George Orwell