Find your soul

RIC_2400-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If you do not find your soul, 

the world is unreal to you.

Kabir

Imagination

RIC_2009-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The reality of all the arts is that of the imagination. ... The security of the imagination lies in calling, all our lives, for more liberty, more rebellion, more belief.

Muriel Rukeyser, "The Resistances," The Life of Poetry

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Hope

RIC_2013-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     Princess Turandot: “What is born each night and dies

     each dawn?”

     Prince of Tartary: “Hope.”

       Giacomo Puccini, Turandot

Every Moment

RIC_9711_edited-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     Cancer changed the way I ate, slept, and most
     importantly the way I live. Before cancer I was like most
     folks, just cruising along. It was during my treatment,
     when starting to discover what cancer could give to me —
     the ability to absorb every moment as if each one were
     my whole life.


       Eric Smith, Live Now: Artful Messages of Hope, Happiness & Healing

Silence

RCC_9182
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Silence is a receptive space.

Barbara De Angelis

Evening Prayer

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

The camel, at the close of day,
Kneels down upon the sandy plain
To have his burden lifted off
And rest again.
My soul, thou too should to thy knees
When daylight draweth to a close,
And let thy Master lift the load
And grant repose.

Anonymous

Hope

RCC_0911
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Hope is hope against the evidence. Hope arises in a break with the past. There is a kind of cut and the past is let go of. There is a difference between simple expectation and hope. … Expectation is based on the pattern you see in the past…. I think that hope is a kind of birth — it doesn’t come out of what went before, it comes out in spite of what went before.

Alphonso Lingis, Philosopher