Real

Toronto 7 (8.29, 2013), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The question is always: Who am I? 
     You see, if I were allowed one single cry to God, 
     that cry would be: I want to be REAL.

        Katherine Mansfield

Our own beauty

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To really accept the beauty of the world, we must have a place in ourselves that understands our own beauty, that accepts the experience of beauty and ecstasy from within.

Christina Baldwin, One to One

We

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We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Music

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Music is a memory bank for finding one's way about the world.

Bruce Chatwin, Songlines

Unimagined Bridge

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As once the winged energy of delight carried you over childhood's dark abysses, now beyond your own life build the great arch of unimagined bridges.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Artist

Everyone is an artist.  Each person brings sound out of silence and coaxes the invisible to become visible.

John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom