Creativity

Ghost Ranch 1 (2013, 7.30), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     
     One of the many paradoxes of creativity is that 
     we cannot know it fully, yet we can deeply experience it 
     within ourselves. 

        David Ulrich, The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity

Real Journey in Life

By the Light House 7, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Our real journey in life is interior;
it is a matter of growth, deepening,
and of an ever greater surrender
to the creative action of love
and grace in our hearts.

Thomas Merton, The Asian Journal

Perseverance

Five Oaks 6, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Perseverance is the name of the path that leads
     from uncertainty to celebration.

        Mary Anne Radmacher,
        Honey in Your Heart: Ways to See and Savor the Simple Good Things

Life Story

RIC_1455-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     How often do we tell our own life story? How often do

     we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life

     goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our

     account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely

     the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but

     - mainly - to ourselves.

       Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

Life we planned

RIC_1141-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

         We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned so
    as to have the life that is waiting for us.

      Joseph Campbell