Tender Care

Tulip 3 (2013, 5.10), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W. B. Yeats, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Understanding

Garden Centre 3 (2013, 5.20), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Without understanding there cannot be true love, 
     and without love there cannot be true
     understanding.

        Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

Word

Tulip 1 (2013, 5.10), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     A word is dead
     When it is said,
     Some say.
     I say it just begins
     to live that day.

        Emily Dickinson

Love

Tulip (2013, 5.6), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Love is just a word
     until someone comes along
     and gives it meaning.

        Paulo Coelho

Peace

RCC_9009, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Until there is peace between religions,

there can be no peace in the world. 

Hans Kung

Peace

RCC_0766, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

There is no way to peace,

peace is the way.

A. J. Muste

Compassion

RC1_4927, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The purpose of the journey 

is compassion.

Joseph Campbell

Maturity

Brighton's Chimes 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child
     at play.

        Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Hurt

RIC_6954-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Home of hope is hurt.

Walter Brueggeman

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

     
    

Poems

RC1_4468, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


               Poems come out of wonder,
                      not out of knowing.

                                         Lucile Clifton

True Success

RC1_4443, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of
being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at
your best. 

Harold S. Kushner, Overcoming Life's Disappointments: Learning from Moses How to Cope with Frustration

Awareness

RIC_0317-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     When we have a heightened awareness of life’s fleeting
     impermanence, life itself becomes ever more precious and vivid. 

       Roger Housden, Ten Poems to Say Goodbye

Heart

RIC_0075-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Wherever I am,

my heart is, and

that is where I will meet the Divine.

Tom Maddix,

Running Scared: The Call of Pilgrimage

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

.

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/.

Silence

RIC_1752-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

And the end of words

is to bring people to the knowledge

of things beyond

what words can utter.

Isaac Penington

Art

RCC_8638, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Pablo Picasso

Who you are

RC1_4403, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr. 

You cannot determine who you are by what you do.

M. Craig Barnes, The Pastor As Minor Poet: Texts and Subtexts in the Ministerial Life