Pilgrimage

Raga Concert 10, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The most profound pilgrimages are made by those
     with homes which they have voluntarily left and to
     which they can return. 

        Bonnie Thurston

What is inside you

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If you bring forth what is inside you,
what you bring forth will save you.
If you don't bring forth what is inside you,
what you bring forth can destroy you.

Jesus, Gnostic gospel of Thomas

Three questions

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If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel

Painting portraits

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There is still something to be said for painting portraits of the people we have loved, for trying to express those moments that seem so inexpressibly beautiful, the ones that change us and deepen us.

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life