The Unknown

RIC_3354-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

More and more I've become convinced that 

the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

P. L. Travers

Courage

RIC_2691-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e. e. cummings

Truth

RIC_4769-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;
     Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.

        Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone

Emptiness

RIC_8022-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion. 

Tibetan Buddhist Saying

Living into Thinking

RIC_2688-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living,

we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

Richard Rohr

Message of Survival

RCC_5995-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

In spring from the black branches of the

    flowering plum tree

the woodthrush issues its routine

message of survival.

Louise Glück, Flowering Plum

Centre of Our Being

RIC_1464-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     May we all grow in grace and peace, and not neglect the

     silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will

     not fail us. 

       Thomas Merton

Your Life

RIC_2698-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     What can it be that has never yet been seen?
     What has never yet been seen is your own unprecedented
     life fulfilled.
     Your life is what has yet to be brought into being. 

         Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Wonder

RIC_9753-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in

the world anymore. There is always

something to make you wonder in the

shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. 

Albert Schweitzer

Perspective

RIC_8356-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     In one drop of water are found all the 
     secrets of all the oceans. 
      
      Kahlil Gibran