Mindfulness

Uyede Home 1 (2013, 8.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Mindfulness is a practice of being present 
with the truth of this moment.

Mary Grace Orr

Forgiveness

Tulip 12(2013, 5.10), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. 

Christina Baldwin

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

Solitude

Lamp (2013, 2.22), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Solitude is a crucial ingredient to creativity.

Susan Cain

Your adventure

Candle 2 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Your adventure has to be coming right out of your own interior.

Joseph Campbell

Out of no way

Shadow 1 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

God always makes a way out of no way.

Veronica Goines

Perspective

Afternoon shadow 1 (2013,2.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     How we see things determines what we do,
     and what we do determines the result we get.

        Stephen R. Covey, The 3rd Alternative

Service

Jar 2 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

Hope

A matter of time, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When hope is not pinned

wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation,

it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Hope

Candles 3 (2013,1.29), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Dum spiro spero.

While I breathe, I hope.

Cicero

Presence

Sunset 1 (2013,1.31), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.

They're in each other all along.

Rumi

Tears

RIC_6767-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     Words are tears that have been written down. Tears

     are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy

     loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.