Art

Heart 1 (2014, 2.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

Alain de Botton, Art as Therapy

A Miracle

St. James United Church, Toronto 2 (2014,,2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

      Here is what I was trying to figure out: 

     how a miracle happens. 

     A great work of art—
     something that makes people pay attention, 

     return to the work again and again,

     and reexamine their assumptions,

     something that infuriates, hurts, and confronts—

     a great work of art is always a miracle.

        Masha Gessen

Memory

Heart 2 (2014, 2.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The world begins and ends in memory;
What I remember is what I am.

Glen Sorestad, Aide Memoire

Beautiful

Candle 1 (2013, 1.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Always the beautiful answer

who asks a more beautiful question.

E. E. Cummings

Self

Candle 1 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You are what your deep driving desire is.

Brihaduranyaha Upanishad

Spreading Light

RIC_0855-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

There are two ways of spreading light: 

to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. 

Edith Wharton

Shedding

Earth Hour 7 (2013, 3. 23), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

From the beginning,

the key to renewal has been

the casting off of old skin.

Thich Nhat Hanh, 

Living Buddha, Living Christ

Peace

Egg Candle, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     If you want oneness in society,
     you have to teach people to go inside
     instead of going outside, 
     because if they want peace, 
     they need to find it within. 

        Ram Dass

Listening

Earth Hour 2 (2013, 3. 23), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


There comes a point in every person's life 
when they must realize, I can't outrun 
my darkness – I can only fill it with light. 

Yehuda Berg

Your adventure

Candle 2 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Your adventure has to be coming right out of your own interior.

Joseph Campbell

Light

Candle 2 at J&J, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path

without brightening our own. 

Ben Sweetland

Enthusiasm & Humility

Candle 1 at J&J, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


No act of generosity was ever accomplished
without two things: enthusiasm and humility.

Michael Powell, A Thousand Paths to Generosity

Service

Candle (12.14,'12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     You will truly serve only what you love
     because service is love made visible.

        Stephen Colbert

Watchful

Candle and Stones 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


       We all live for the Light
             that the lowly born, a glimmer, lead
     the way

     and you wake up, still in the dark
     but watchful and ready now.

        Sandra M. Tully, When You Are a Child

Art

Candle, Taste of Thailand, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

All art that really draws us to look at it deeply is spiritual.

Wendy Beckrtt

Liberation

RIC_3093, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The way to help the blind is to understand, correct, remove the incapacities and inequalities in our entire civilization. 

Helen Keller

Wisdom

RIC_6825-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you
     would rather have talked.

       Mark Twain

Imagination

RIC_1900-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life, then,
     is to produce out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the
     society we want to live in.

       Northrop Frye

Suffering is Optional

RIC_0854-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Pain is inevitable; Suffering is optional.

Zen Aphorism