God in me

RCC_0795, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     I believe that God is in me
     as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of flower –
     the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

        Helen Keller

Art

Angel sleeping, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Art points out the beauty we otherwise miss, as well
as the injustices we might otherwise dismiss.

Bob Hulteen, Popular Culture and Our Future

Perspective

RIC_6961-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Concentrate on what you have left, not just on what you have lost.

Harold S. Kushner, Overcoming Life's Disappointments

The essence of struggle

RIC_6463-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



     The essence of struggle is the decision to become new rather than
     simply to become older.

       Joan Chittister, Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope

     
    

Finding God

RIC_0052-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To find God, it is necessary to find one's heart. 

Michael Casey,

The Undivided Heart: The Western Monastic Approach to Contemplation

Heart

RCC_6054-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

In each human being there is a meeting with the divine.

That intersection is the heart.

Coleman Barks, Rumi: Book of Love

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

Love

RCC_6044-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Lost is all the time that is not engaged in love.

from an Italian poem

Burden of Memory

RCC_5948-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     The camera relieves us of the burden of memory ...

     records in order to forget.

       John Berger

Your Life

RIC_2698-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     What can it be that has never yet been seen?
     What has never yet been seen is your own unprecedented
     life fulfilled.
     Your life is what has yet to be brought into being. 

         Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Gifts & Possessions

RIC_1829, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

All you are unable to give,

possesses you.

Andre Gide

Memory

RIC_6469-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

All memory is present.

Novalis (Georg Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg)

Be kind

RIC_6307-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Be kind to each other.

That is one of the key ingredients in being a good friend.

Thank God for good friends. 

David G. Hallman, August Farewell: The Last Sixteen Days of a Thirty-Three-Year Romance

Connected

RIC_6426-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We cannot live for ourselves alone.

Our lives are connected by a thousand individual threads,

and along these sympathetic fibres,

our actions run as causes and return to us as results. 

Herman Melville

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Joy

RIC_6227-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Joy that is only ours is not real joy.

Kyriacos Markides, Riding with the Lion

Story of Our Life

RIC_6727-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

None of us can read the story of our life – we can only live it. The result is that we live in and with uncertainty.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Covenant & Conversations: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible – Genesis: The Book of Beginnings

Our Story

RIC_6719-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Our story is the vehicle through which we communicate to others and ourselves a piece of our life. Our story is how we put our events into perspective and assign meaning to what happened. 

Fred Luskin, Forgive for Good

Food

RIC_6677-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

    
     Food is not a weapon. To use it as such — to foster a
     mentality willing to use it as such — is to prepare, in the
     human character and community, the destruction of the
     sources of food. … Neither nature nor people alone can
     produce human sustenance, but only the two together,
     culturally wedded. 

      Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America

Nature

RIC_5317-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Nature is not on the surface, it is inside. 

Colours, on the surface, show that inside. 

They show the roots of the world. 

Paul Cézanne in Cézanne by Joachim Gasquet

A single moment

DSC_0688, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a person finds out, once and for all, who they are. 

Jorge Luis Borges