Stop

Mountain 12, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Stop talking, stop thinking,
and there is nothing you will not understand.

Seng-Ts'an

Perspective

RIC_7662-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The most important power we have is

the power to help select the lens

through which we see reality.

David Brooks

What must I myself keep on remembering?

RIC_5746-1 b/w, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

In this age of nuclear weapons, when their power gets more attention than the misery they cause, and when human events increasingly revolve around their production and proliferation, what must we Japanese try to remember? Or more pointedly, what must I myself remember and keep on remembering?

Kenzaburo Oe, Hiroshima Notes

On Monday, August 6, 1945 the Atomic Bomb was dropped by the United States Army Air Forces on Hiroshima. The Cenotaph, an arched tomb for those who died because of the bomb either because of the initial blast or exposure to radiation, in Hiroshima holds a register of over 220,000 names.* It is not clear how many more have died due to the Atom Bomb dropped in Hiroshima.

* http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3400.html

Attitude

RIC_7517-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they

     always see the past better than it was, the present worse

     than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

       Marcel Pagnol

Spiritual Journey

RIC_7946-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Much of the spiritual journey is about waiting, trusting and hoping that an invisible God will continually guide, direct, and transform us and our lives.

Tom Maddix, Running Scared: The Call of Pilgrimage

What we left behind

RIC_7206-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The significance of the desert and mountain

is not who resides here,

but what we ourselves have left behind in coming.

David Douglas, Wilderness Sojourn: Notes in the Desert Silence

Healing

RIC_3372-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, 

it will continue to bleed.

Iyanla Vanzant

Rising

RIC_7860-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Whenever something is true, good, or beautiful

whether it be art, prayer, or thought, it rises.

And in rising, it converges with everything else

that is true, good, or beautiful.

Gregory Wolfe,

Convergences, Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery

Poets

RIC_3271-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Poets write in the line of prophecy,

and their work teaches us how to live.

Jay Parini, Why Poetry Matters