Writing

Navajo Heart 1 (2014, 3.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Remember that writing is translation and 
the opus to be translated is yourself. 

Elwyn Brooks White

Blessing

Ghost Ranch 8 (2013, 7.24), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

May the stars light your way

and may you find the interior road.

Forward!

Traditional Irish Farewell

Openness

RCC_6049-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


At the heart of love is openness. An unfettered openness of heart
and spirit, it seems to me, is what intimacy — with another and
with all life — really means. That openness is what I now believe
true detachment to be.

Roger Housden, Ten Poems to Say Goodbye

The Contemplative

RIC_0346-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The poet enters into oneself in order to create.
The contemplative enters into God in order to be created.

Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

Heart

RCC_6054-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

In each human being there is a meeting with the divine.

That intersection is the heart.

Coleman Barks, Rumi: Book of Love

Be open

RIC_1901, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

As an inlet cannot close itself to the sea that shapes it,

the heart can only wear itself open.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Love

RCC_5433
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Only love is big enough to hold all the pain of this world.

Sharon Salzberg

Our hearts

RIC_9611
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Shall we compare our hearts to a garden – with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds, swooping birds and sunshine and rain – and most importantly, seeds?

Greg Livington

When your heart speaks

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

When your heart speaks, take good notes.

Susan Campbell

Peace

Divine Peace-Bringer,
take what is jagged in my relationships,
and transform it with your grace.
I will do my best to bid farewell
to whatever keeps me from inner peace.
Help me bring your enduring harmony
into every part of my existence.
I open the door of my heart to you.
I open the door.


Joyce Rupp, The Open Door