Art

Prayer 1 (2013, 10.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Art is a tool to set up new questions. 

Ai Weiwei

Gratitude

RCC_8419, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

At times our own light goes out and is

rekindled by a spark from another

person.  Each of us has cause to think

with deep gratitude of those who have

lighted the flame within us. 

Albert Schweitzer

Grief

RCC_8256, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You can never get enough of what you don’t really want.

Eric Hoffer

Basic Truths

RIC_9442-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What we call basic truths are simply the

ones we discover after all the others.

Albert Camus

The world

RIC_9436-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable. 

 Martin Büber

This we know

RCC_8212
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

This we know:

We were

not meant

to suffer

so much

& to learn

nothing.

Alice Walker, The Taste of Grudge, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

Our days

RIC_2040
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

Life

RCC_8360
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard

Death

RCC_8167
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

Colonialism

RCC_8485
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Colonialism is a denial of the reality of self in favour of an imaginary special position inside the mythology of someone else's empire. That special position can never exist because empires have their own purpose.

John Ralston Saul, A Fair Country: Tellng Truths About Canada