Fear

RIC_0709-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.

W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety

See the history of the Other

Table for two, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Unless you actually saw the history of the other,
     no matter what your perspective is, you couldn't
     really understand where we are (and) how we got
     here.

        Sandy Tolan, author of The Lemon Tree

Poetry

Wet Day 1 (9.14, '12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

Nathalie Sarraute

But the question

RIC_8823-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr. 

It's not the answer that enlightens, but the question. 

Eugene Ionesco

Fear less, love more

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Fear less, hope more,

Eat less, chew more,

Whine less, breathe more,

Talk less, say more,

Love more, and all good things will be yours.

Swedish Proverb

Silence

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Silence is a fence around wisdom. 

German Proverb

In the Other

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In order to discover ourselves, we need to see ourselves in the other, to understand the other in order to understand ourselves, to enter into the other.

Antonio Faundez, Learning to Question: A Pedagogy of Liberation

Love

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Love is when two soltudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Simplicity

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I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity,
but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Language

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It is through language that we create our world, because it is nothing until we describe it. We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we describe.

Joseph Jaworski, Synchronicity