Risk Taking

RIC_3518-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Sometimes not having any idea where we're going
works out better than we could possibly have imagined. 

Ann Patchett, What Now?

Love

On the way to Christian Island (2013, 9.22), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The wise are only wise only because they love.
     The fools are only fools only because they think
     they can understand love. 

        Paulo Coelho

Arrival

RIC_3556-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Every step an arrival.

Denise Levertov, 

Overland to the Island

Fall in love

RCC_6335-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Fall in love in such a way 
that it frees you from any connecting. 

Rumi

Where we are

Direction in the snow, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The first step toward the capacity for hope is 
     the recognition of where we are. 
     If we refuse to recognize where we are, 
     then everything we do is futile. 

        Chris Hedges

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

Question

RIC_5028-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If a man speaks in the forest,

and there is no woman there

to hear him, is he still wrong?

Seen on a T-shirt

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Love poems

RIC_3507, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

So tell me what it takes to write a love poem.
     A generous spirit and a willingness to make a fool of yourself.

It takes those to love, too.
     That’s love.

Conversation between Bill Moyers and Nikki Giovanni, Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues

Journey

RIC_1192
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

We are all drifting and swimming toward an unknown point that will not be what it seems when we get there.

Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers

Road

RCC_1581
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Wanderer, the road is your
footsteps, nothing else;
wanderer, there is no path,
you lay down a path in walking.

Antonio Machado