Essence

RIC_3339-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Be humble for you are made of Earth,

Be noble for you are made of stars.

A Serbian Proverb

Becoming the Path

RCC_3631, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You cannot travel the path

until you have become the path.

Buddha

Seeing

Toronto 1 (2013, 9.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


What we see is determined by how we see, 
and each of us responsible for how we see. 

Christine Valters Paintner, Eyes of the Heart

How to live

RCC_9941, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



This is our constant problem – how to live with people and remain free,
how to live with things and remain independent.

Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

To be hopeful

RCC_2293, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To be hopeful,

to embrace one possibility after another – that is surely the basic instinct.

Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson

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Doorway to God

RC1_6161, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The wailing of broken heart is the doorway to God.

Rumi

Returning thanks

RCC_3648, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Saint Ambrose

Parting

RCC_9757, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?

And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?

Walt Whitman, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed