Symbols

RCC_6146-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Symbols are living mirrors of the deepest understandings that have no words.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Mirror

James' 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


When men created the mirror, he began to lose his soul. 
He became more concerned with his image than with his soul. 
Thus, he tells himself a story that aligns with the social image. 

Stephen Covey, The 3rd Alternative

Heart beat

RIC_0688-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


A single beat from the heart of a lover
is capable of driving out a hundred sorrows.

Naquib Mahfouz

History

RIC_1726-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     History is that certainty produced at the point where the

     imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of

     documentation.  ...  It's more the memories of the

     survivors, most of whom are neither victorious nor

     defeated. 

       Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

Solitude

RIC_3121, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We must reserve a little back-shop, all our own, entirely free, wherein to establish our true liberty and principal retreat and solitude.

Montaigne

How to see

RIC_6394
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

All religious teachers have recognized that we human beings do not naturally see; we have to be taught how to see.

Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemporary Prayer