Adventure

Shadow 6 (2014, 3.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. 

G. K. Chesterton

Surviving

Planet of the Bamboos, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We're never gonna survive

unless we get a little bit crazy.

Seal

Silence

RCC_6060-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. 

The challenge is to silence the mind. 

Caroline Myss

Life

RIC_6378, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Life is this simple.

We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time.

Thomas Merton

Waken Yourself

RIC_6447 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

By your own efforts

Waken yourself, watch yourself.

And live joyfully.

You are the master.

Gautama Buddha

Power to imagine better

RCC_8318 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We do not need magic to change the world,
we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already:
we have the power to imagine better.

J. K. Rowling

How to see

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All religious teachers have recognized that we human beings do not naturally see; we have to be taught how to see.

Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemporary Prayer

How well we love

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I believed – and still believe – that when all is said and done, none of us will be measured on how much we accomplish but on how well we love.

Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters – and How to Talk About It

Spiritual transformation

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The naked truth of spiritual transformation is that if we don’t change our lives ourselves, nothing will change them for us. That’s the secret of spiritual self-mastery. No one can do it for us. Although help is available, we need to take it upon ourselves to find and utilize it.

Lama Surya Das, Buddha Is As Buddha Does

Learning

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I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

Spritual Journey

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We call spirituality a journey and speak in metaphors of travel, yet many of us never leave the neighbourhood.

Christina Baldwin, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice