Faith

RIC_0487, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


       Faith is not the belief that God will do
     what you want. 
     It is the belief that God will do what is right.

        Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones

Secrets

RIC_9614, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Paul Tournier

To be

RIC_5859-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Esse est percipi.

To be is to be perceived.

George Berkley

Knowing

Santa Fe 41 (2013, 7.17), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You must know yourself to know the world.

Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum, 

Walking the Way: 

81 Zen Encounters with the Tao Te Ching, 

Silence

Santa Fe 26 (2013, 7.17), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Rumi

Observation

Lamp 1 (2013, 7.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Yogi Berra

Poetry

Eye of the Tiger, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


In the very essence of poetry
there is something indecent;
A thing brought forth 
that we didn't know we had in us,
So we blink our eyes, 
as if a tiger had sprung out
And stood in the light, 
lashing his tail.

Czeslaw Milosz, Ars Poetica?

Strangers

TB 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Strangers are those whose story we have not heard. 

Bo Forbes

Living Love

Lamp (2013, 3.22), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     In the end, it is not enough to think what we know. 
     We must live it. For only by living it can Love show itself
     as the greatest principle.

        Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Live loud

Lamp 2 (2013, 3.22), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Live loud enough in your heart
and there is no need to speak.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening.

Trust yourslef

Jack's Lamp 1 (water jug), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Just trust yourself,
     then you will know how to live.

        Goethe

Broken Open

Light (2013, 2.14), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

God breaks the heart again and again and

again until it stays open. 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Solitude

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

Solitude is a crucial ingredient to creativity.

Susan Cain

Meaning

Lamp & reflection, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Being alive is the meaning. 

Joseph Campbell

Visibility

Rays (2013, 1.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     I do think visibility is important. 
     I do think that the tide of history only moves forward
     when everybody is feeling visible. 

        Anderson Cooper

Light

Lamp in Snow, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
     To change something, build a new model that makes
     the existing model obsolete.

        R. Buckminster Fuller

Quarrels

Created with ToonCamera, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric;
     out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

        W. B. Yeats

Grateful

Lamp (2012,11.7), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


There is always something to be grateful for.

Rhonda Byrne

Mysteries

Blue Light., a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Those who are willing to be vulnerable
move among mysteries.

Theodore Roethke

Life

Reflection (9.16, '12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Life is a mystery to be lived,

not a problem to be solved. 

Soren Kierkegaard