Most interesting

Foggy Day 5 (2014, 1.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The things that doesn't fit
is the things that is most interesting.

Richard Feynman

Pilgrimage

Santa Fe 22 (2013, 7.17), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Pilgrimage is a transformative journey to a sacred Centre. 

Phil Cousineau, 

The Art of Pilgrimage

Learning to See

Light 1 (2013, 5.29), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Learning to see means at first bearing witness to what we are 
and where we are, right now, at this very moment.

Laura Dunn and David Ulrich

Love

Peaktop Chinese Restaurant 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Love consists in this, 
that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. 

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to a Young Poet

Helping

Second Automatic Door at KRU, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Helping other people can be a cure not just for
     those who are in need but for your soul as well.

        Marinela Reka

Judging

One Eyed Door, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Judging a person does not define who they are.
It defines who you are.

Anonymous

The Contemplative

RIC_0346-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The poet enters into oneself in order to create.
The contemplative enters into God in order to be created.

Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

Power

RIC_1424-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

Poetry

RIC_1780-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth.

Our material is the way we feel and the way we remember.

Muriel Rukeyser,

"The Universe of Poetry," The Life of Poetry

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Doorways

RIC_1763-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

Marge Piercy

Celebrating International Women's Day - http://www.internationalwomensday.com/.

Education

DSC_5665, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Every education is a kind of inward journey. 

Václav Havel

Justice

RCC_7853, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If I am not a man here, you are not a man here.

James Baldwin,

The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings

Staying close

RIC_9371-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   Since everything is sacred, staying close to what is sacred is
     a matter of presence and attention more than travel to
     some secret place. In essence, staying close is a pilgrimage
     to the heart of where we are. 

    Mark Nepo, As Far As the Heart Can See

Full of God

RCC_6081, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when . . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God. 

Harriet Martineau

Creativity

RIC_1905, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Pablo Picasso

Every breath you take

_DSC5566, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To hold nothing back

in every breath

is a spiritual practice.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Two Extremes

RIC_1910, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

There are two extremes to avoid:

being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

Henry Nouwen

Change

RIC_6408 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The stuff of our lives doesn’t change.

It is we who change in relation to it.

Molly Vass

Truth

RC1_9578
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

God revealed

a sublime truth to the world,

when God sang,

"I am made whole by your life, Each soul,

each soul completes

me."

Hafiz

Door

RIC_0105
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Often God shuts a door in our face,
And then subsequently opens the door through which we need to go.

Catherine Marshall