Seeing

RIC_0719-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The eye with which I see God is 
the same eye with which God sees me. 

Meister Eckardt

Creative Challenge

RIC_6889-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Can we approach life itself as a creative challenge, through
     the medium of whatever it is that we do on a daily basis?

        David Ulrich, 
        The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity

Purpose of Education

Toronto 2 (2013, 10.10), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The only purpose of education should be to train attention. 

Simone Weil

Love

Flowers 2 (8.23, '13), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Love is the vocation which includes all others. 

Thérèse of Lisieux

As Us

RIC_0737-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

God show up in us as us. 

Elizabeth Gilbert

Seeing

RIC_7952-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

How do I know what I think until I see what I say? 

E. M. Foster

Passion

RIC_6902-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

There can be no truly great creation without passion. 

Gertrude Stein

Perception

RIC_5430-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


If you perceive the universe as being 
a universe of abundance, then it will be. 
If you think of the universe 
as one of scarcity, then it will be. 

Milton Glaser

Surprise

RIC_0032-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker

Wisdom

RCC_0767, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Bury your secret in the chamber of your heart.

Your unknown desire will burgeon.

Drop seeds to the bowels of the earth,

And the garden will spring beyond belief.

Rumi

Humanity

RIC_9750-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith 
or your equals in humanity.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Remain Radiant

RCC_0788, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Let the world be as it is
and learn to rock with the waves.

Remain 'radiant,'
as Joyce put it,
in the filth of the world.

Joseph Campbell,
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Symbols

RCC_6146-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Symbols are living mirrors of the deepest understandings that have no words.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Hope

Flowers (2013, 5.31), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope. 

Pope Francis

Wonder

Garden Centre 1 (2013, 5.20), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


How can this be?
Such calm, such peace, such solitude
in this world of woe.

David Budbill, The Sixth of January

Opening

Garden Centre 6 (2013, 5.20), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


No bird can fly
without opening its wings,
and no one can love
without exposing their heart.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Seeing

Garden Centre 2 (2013, 5.20), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Never be so focused on what you're looking for 
     that you overlook the things you actually find. 

        Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

Thou

Flowers (2013, 4.30), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Thou
Whom I do not know
But whose I am.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Hope

RIC_4321-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When it seems too much... 

Hold fast to the dearest hopes embedded in your life with others. 

Or rather, let those hopes hold you...

Tom Reynolds

Faith

RIC_4124, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


In Buddhism, faith means confidence in our and others' abilities
to wake up to our deepest capacity of loving and understanding.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ