Truth

Mississauga 1 (2013, 9.18), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Love of the truth puts you on the spot.

Naropa Institute Motto

Secrets

RIC_9614, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Paul Tournier

Love

Toronto 2 (8.28, '13), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     God does not love you because you are lovable. 
     You are lovable because God loves you. 

        Desmond Tutu

Discovery

Shadow on Brick Wall (9.16, '12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     If we truly want to know the secret of soulful travel, 
     we need to believe that there is something sacred waiting 
     to be discovered in virtually every journey.

        Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgrimage

Longing

Ladder, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     We are impoverished in our longing and devoid of imagination
     when it comes to our reaching out to others. ... 
     We need to be introduced to our longings, because they guard
     our mystery. 

        Alan Jones

To Love

RIC_9598-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To Love another person is

to see the face of God.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Love

Toon Iona Cross, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

Letting Go

Wall Mural 1a, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


We hold on so tightly that
our hands are unavailable to reach out
for the happiness we could gain by letting go.

M. J. Ryan

Place in Time

Autumn leaves (10.24, '12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


On the same spot I sit today
Others came, in ages past to sit.
One thousand years, still others will come.
Who is the singer, and who is the listener?

Nguyen Cong Tru

Knowledge

Shadow 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Knowledge implies ignorance of what lies beyond
     what is known. Knowledge is always limited.

        Sri Ramana Maharshi

Writing

Shadow on Brick Wall (9.16, '12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Write what disturbs you, what fear, what you have not been
     willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

        Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Memory

RIC_0345-3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Memory is just another form of fiction.

Antanas Sileika

New Eyes

RCC_6074-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     The purpose of art is not to strand us in an

     alternate world, but to return us to the

     realm of the ordinary, only with new eyes.

       Gregory Wolfe,

       "Transfiguration," Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on

       Art, Faith, and Mystery

Art is the mirror

RIC_9647-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Art is the mirror, perhaps the only one,

in which we can see our true collective

face. We must honour its sacred

function. We must let art help us.

Alice Walker,
  The Same River Twice: Honouring the Difficult

What lies within us

RIC_9611-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   The more articulate one is, the more
     dangerous words become.

    May Sarton

Miracles

RIC_9660_edited-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Most miracles, like everything else,

are firmly rooted in who we are.

Iris Sangiuliano, In Her Time

Fear

RIC_9657_edited-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To fear is one thing.  To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Katherine Paterson

Seeing & Naming

RIC_6647-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I had seen only that which I was able to name. …

The mere words I knew, the richer, fuller, and more variegated would be the world that opened before me, and which I could capture. 

Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus

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Finding Self

RCC_8633, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To look into a mirror;

And to see a mirror,

I find myself again.

Anonymous

Role of Artist

RIC_1907, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

Joseph Campbell