Faith

RCC_5991, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


As our faith deepens,
the "container" in wihci fear arises gets bigger. 

Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

A goodbye

RIC_0040, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I have also learned that a goodbye is an opportunity for kindness, for forgiveness, for intimacy, and ultimately for love and a deepening acceptance of life as it is instead of what it was or what we may have wanted it to be. Goodbyes can be poignant, sorrowful, sometimes a relief, and, now and then, an occasion for joy. They are always transition moments that, when embraced, can be the door to a new life both for ourselves and for others.

Roger Housden, Ten Poems to Say Goodbye

Oneself

Vestige 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The final mystery is oneself.

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

Creature

RIC_9589-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     There is a crack in everything God has made.

      Ralph Waldo Emerson

At any given moment

RIC_0051, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

At any given moment you have the 
  power to say: This is not how the story is
  going to end.

Christine Mason Miller, Ordinary Sparkling Moments

Failure

RIC_0019 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You might never fail on the scale I did,
but some failure in life is inevitable.
It is impossible to live without failing at something,
unless you live so cautiously
that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case,
you fail by default.

J.K. Rowling

Life

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe