Children

Jacqueline Treloar's art displayed at Kingston Road United Church 9, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Children aren't colouring books.

You don't get to fill them with your colours.

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Clarity

Jacqueline Treloar 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Don’t confuse honours with achievement.

Zadie Smith

Whole Story

RCC_1129, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


I don't know my whole story.
And if I don't know my whole story,
I can't heal myself.

Richard Wagamese

Show Me

RC1_7737, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


To you the churches and faith traditions
I give this challenge:

If the word of God is real when He said,
“You shall love thy neighbour…”
then show me.

Don’t tell me
because I have no more time
to listen.

Art Solomon, Anishinaabek elder,

quoted in KAIROS, In Peace and Friendship: A New Relationship with Aboriginal Peoples

Love

RC1_7730, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     The love of a single heart can make a world of difference. 

    I believe that we can heal Rwanda – and our world – by

    healing one hear at a time.

     Immaculée Ilibagiza, Left to Tell

Truths beyond itself

RIC_8679-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths 

beyond itself.

Anais Nin

Rationality & Emotion

RIC_8676-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality.

It is only because our emotional brains work so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

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Family

RCC_1112, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A family is its stories.

Arthur W. Frank, letting stories breathe: a socio-narratology

To be truly wise

RIC_3078, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To be truly wise is to understand

that knowing and not knowing are one.

Each has the power to transform. 

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song

Harmony

_DSC5472, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Who sees all beings in one’s own Self

and one’s own Self in all beings,

loses all fear.

The Isa Upanishad

We are One

RC1_7742, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We are all Story. … We are energy moving forward to the fullest possible expressions of ourselves, …

We are one. We are, in the end, one story, one song, one spirit, one soul.

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song

Every breath you take

_DSC5566, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To hold nothing back

in every breath

is a spiritual practice.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Healing

RCC_2286 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

May all that I do today contribute to the healing of the world,

and may my heart be open enough to allow the world to contribute to my healing.

Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers

"Remembering Forward"

RIC_6433
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

Being Human

We are not cabin dwellers, born to a life cramped and confined; we are meant to explore, to seek, to push the limits of our potential as human beings. The world of the sense is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the world of physical reality.

Eknath Easwaran