Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Real

Toronto 7 (8.29, 2013) by rchoephoto
Toronto 7 (8.29, 2013), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The question is always: Who am I? 

     You see, if I were allowed one single cry to God, 
     that cry would be: I want to be REAL.

        Katherine Mansfield

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Soul

Real Jerk Restaurant (2013, 10.6) by rchoephoto
Real Jerk Restaurant (2013, 10.6), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


When the soul wishes 
To experience something, 
She throws an image 
Of the experience out 
Before her and enters into 
Her own image. 

Meister Eckhart

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Creativity

Toronto 2 (2012, 9.1) by rchoephoto
Toronto 2 (2012, 9.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Creativity isn't the monopoly of artists,

this is the crucial fact I've come to realize and 
this broader concept of creativity is my concept of art. 

Joseph Benys

Monday, October 28, 2013

Integrity

RIC_0887-1 by rchoephoto
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

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Art

Mississauga Chinatown 1 (2013, 6.4) by rchoephoto



I believe involvement with art should be in partnership
with the quest for spiritual understanding. 
I must create, share, and hopefully insure
that myself and others will continue to unlock our potential 
for perceiving, experiencing, and expressing beauty.

Pomona Hallenbeck


Saturday, July 6, 2013

Seeing

Hands (2013, 6.23) by rchoephoto
Hands (2013, 6.23), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Blessed are they who see beautiful things 
in humble places where other people see nothing. 

Camille Pissarro

Monday, June 17, 2013

Meaning

Toronto Pearson Airport Terminal 1 #2 by rchoephoto
Toronto Pearson Airport Terminal 1 #2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     We now live in a world where information is
     potentially unlimited. Information is cheap, 
     but meaning is expensive. 
     Where is the meaning? 
     Only human beings can tell you where it is. 
     We’re extracting meaning from our minds and 
     our own lives.

        George Dyson

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Companions

Mural 1 Annex, Toronto (2013, 5.19) by rchoephoto
Mural 1 Annex, Toronto (2013, 5.19), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph


And death i think is no parenthesis

e. e. cummings

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Peace

Cross, Freelton, Ontario 2 by rchoephoto
Cross, Freelton, Ontario 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, 
but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Thomas Merton

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Stop

Mountain 12 by rchoephoto
Mountain 12, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Stop talking, stop thinking,
and there is nothing you will not understand.


Seng-Ts'an

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Monday, January 21, 2013

Awakening

Operator by rchoephoto
Operator, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


How did I get so lucky
to have my heart awakened
to others and their suffering?

Pema Chödrön

Monday, December 24, 2012

Haitian Angels

Haitian Angels by rchoephoto

Haitian Angels, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The Church – the body of Christ.
Christ who dined with tax gatherers and prostitutes.
Christ who affirmed women and respected them.
Christ who praised the Samaritan and the Roman.
Christ who stretched out his hand to the lame.
Two Thousand years later, when will we learn?

Jean Mayland,
Courage to Love: Liturgies for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Community, edited by Geoffrey Duncan


Saturday, June 23, 2012

Open Heart

RIC_8212-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_8212-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     When we open our hearts to pain and suffering,
     we begin to heal,
     not becuase suffering is redemptive
     but because opening our heart is.

       Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Show Me


RC1_7737 by rchoephoto
RC1_7737, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


To you the churches and faith traditions
I give this challenge:
If the word of God is real when He said,
“You shall love thy neighbour…”
then show me.
Don’t tell me
because I have no more time
to listen.
Art Solomon, Anishinaabek elder,
quoted in KAIROS, In Peace and Friendship: A New Relationship with Aboriginal Peoples