Creativity

Toronto 4 (2013, 11.8), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Creativity is subtraction. 

Austin Kleon, 

Newspaper Blackout

Art

Ghost Ranch 21 (2013, 7.30), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Art is here taken to mean
knowledge realized in action.

René Daumal

What you see

Sky 1 (2013, 6.25), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

It's not what you look at that matters, 

it's what you see. 

Henry David Thoreau

Unsayable

Kingston Road United Church 1 (2013, 2.25), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

This has always been the driving mystery

of all sacred wisdom:

The only thing worth saying are

those things that are unsayable.

Mark Nepo,

The Book of Awakening

Future

Half the sky, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The future is no more uncertain than the present. 

Walt Whitman

In each other

_DSC7173, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.

Rumi

Blessings

Bloor & Avenue #1 (2012,11.7), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Like a star should your love be constant.

Like a stone should your love be firm.

Be close, yet not too close.

Possess one another, yet be understanding.

Have patience each with the other.

For storms will come but they will go quickly.

Be free in giving of affection and warmth.

Have no fear and let not the ways of words

Of the unenlightened give you unease.

For the spirit is with you.

Now and always.

Source unknown,

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

Decisions

View 1a, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Between two words
     choose the quieter one.

        Boris Novak, Decisions (tr. Dintinjana)

Place

Blue & Yellow, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     A place will express itself through the human being
     just as it does through its wild flowers.

        Lawrence Durrell

Remembering & Celebrating

Window frames, KRUC, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     In the desert of the heart
     Let the healing fountain start,
     In the prison of his days
     Teach the free man how to praise.

        W. H. Auden, In Memory of W. B. Yeats

The Metropolis

Wet building (9.14, '12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise
could be given only by travelling; namely, the strange.

Jane Jacobs

Destination

Corridor, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     It's not where you start from, it's where you are
     going that makes a difference.

        Ben Carson

Peace within

RIC_8279-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When you find peace within yourself, you become

the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Peace Pilgrim

Forgiveness

RIC_8653-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that

past could be any different.

Oprah Winfrey

Learning

RIC_9722_edited-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr. 

... that is what learning is.
You suddenly understand
something you've understood all your life,
but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

Transformation

RIC_9720-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr. 

The meeting of two personalities

is like the contact of

two chemical substances:

if there is any reaction, both

are transformed.

C. G. Jung

Art

RIC_4976-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A work of art is a gift, not a commodity.

Lewis Hyde,

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

Seeing

RIC_1119, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

It’s never enough just to tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it in a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people’s heads, you need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way. 

John Seely Brown, Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation

Sunset

RCC_0963, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is inside me again.

Anna Akmatova

Life

RIC_6448-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Much of life is the forming and breaking of patterns.

Mark Nepo,

Facing the Lion, Being the Lion