Truth

Mississauga 1 (2013, 9.18), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Love of the truth puts you on the spot.

Naropa Institute Motto

Happy Ending

Toronto 1a (2013, 10.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     If you want a happy ending, 
     that depends, of course, 
     on where you stop your story. 

        Orson Wells

Stories

Toronto 1 (2013, 10.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Be careful which stories you expose yourself to.  ...
     The meanings you find, and the stories you hear, 
     will have an impact on how optimistic you are:
     it’s how we evolved. … If you do not know how to draw 
     positive meaning from what happens in life, 
     the neural pathways you need to appreciate good news 
     will never fire up.

        Philippa Perry

Understanding

Toronto 1 (2013, 9.6), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, 
     but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, 
     in it, through and by it.

        Anais Nin

Wisdom

Toronto 5 (2013, 9.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

It is possible to live and not know. 

Richard Feynman

Seeing

Toronto 1 (2013, 9.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


What we see is determined by how we see, 
and each of us responsible for how we see. 

Christine Valters Paintner, Eyes of the Heart

Longing

Toronto 1 (2013, 10.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     If dreams are thwarted,
        then yearning must take their place.
     If reunion is impossible,
        then longing must take its place.

        Fais Ahmed Faiz
        translated by Arundhati Roy

Wonder

Mississauga 1 (2013, 6.19), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Always on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

E. B. White

Task of Artists

Calling Lakes Centre 25 (2013, 6.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


It is the task of artists ... 
to look with their own eyes ... 
They will not, 
they cannot permit themselves,
generation after generation, 
to hold views they have not examined for themselves. 

Saul Bellow

Presence

Salt 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Most precious gift you can give

is your true presence.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace

Fallen, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Our capacity to make peace with another person
     and with the world depends very much on our
     capacity to make peace with ourselves.

        Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

Growing Edge

Flowers (Oct. 24, '12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Look well to the growing edge.
     It's the basis of hope in moments of despair.

        Howard Thurman

Integrity

Bloor & Avenue #8, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If you don't become the ocean,

you'll be seasick every day.

Leonard Cohen

Oneself

Vestige 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The final mystery is oneself.

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

Soul

Shadow on a sidewalk 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The soul can only be healed through the senses.

Oscar Wilde

Second Naiveté

Flowers on Scarborough Road #3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Beyond rational and critical thinking, we need to be called
     again. This can lead to the discovery of a "second naiveté,'
     which is a return to the joy of our first naiveté, but now
     totally new, inclusive, and mature thinking.

        Paul Ricoeur

Friendship

RCC_4196, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Nothing among human things

has such power to keep our gaze

fixed ever more intensively upon God

than friendship.

Simone Weil

Waken Yourself

RIC_6447 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

By your own efforts

Waken yourself, watch yourself.

And live joyfully.

You are the master.

Gautama Buddha

Destiny

RIC_3999
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.  Destiny is made known silently. 

Agnes DeMille

Life

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe