Privacy

Kensington Market 2013, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, 
or the "consent of the governed" is meaningless... 
The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed. 

Edward Snowden

Culture

Mississauga Chinatown 3 (2013, 6.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Culture is not fate; it only offers templates, which 
individuals can finally accept, reject, or modify, and do. 

Gish Jen, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

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

Choice

Gate 1 (2013, 3.23), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


It's a choice. Every minute in your life is a choice, and we have a choice as to how we will see the world and how we will see ourselves in it.

James Orbinski

Lock & Key

RCC_2263, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The Friend is the key and I am the lock.

Jalil al-Din Rumi

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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Saintliness

RIC_1943, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

It is the struggle and strain of hope that brings about saintliness.

Brian D. McLaren

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