All Serious daring comes from within. 

Eudora Welty

Essence

RIC_3339-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Be humble for you are made of Earth,

Be noble for you are made of stars.

A Serbian Proverb

Elegance

RIC_3178-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Survival is important.
Thriving is elegant.

Maya Angelou

Our Visions

RIC_3371-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Our visions begins with our desires.

Audre Lorde

The Unknown

RIC_3354-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

More and more I've become convinced that 

the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

P. L. Travers

Silence

RIC_3307-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Within each of us there is a silence – 

a silence as vast as a universe.

We are afraid of it …

And we long for it.

Gunilla Norris,

Inviting Silence

Healing

RIC_3229-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Healing may not be so much about getting better,

As about letting go of everything that isn’t you 

– all of the expectations, all of beliefs – 

and becoming who you are.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Creating your own miracle

Field of Snow1 (2014, 3.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     You can create your own miracle. But you do it by
     never looking past all the little steps along the way. 

        Mikaela Shiffrin

Failures and Tears

Snow Art (2014, 2.9), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When I reach the place of my dreams,
I will thank my failures and tears.
They too, kept me going. 

Dodinsky

Quiet

Prayer Flags 2 (2014, 2.9), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

       If we can be quieter, more in the moment 
     with what is actually happening,
     a world of perception opens up for us 
     based on where we are, 
     not on where we one day hope to be.   

        Sharon Salzberg

Attitude

Traffic (2014, 2.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The greatest discovery of my generation is 
that a human being can alter his life 
by altering his attitude. 

William James

Sacred

RIC_1206-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Earth's crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God,

But only he who sees takes off his shoes;

The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To love

A day before Spring (2013, 3.19), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr. 

To love means to offer a space to your beloved. 

Thick Nhat Hanh

Discernment

Conversation (2013, 3.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Discernment is a process of letting go of what
we are not.

Father Thomas Keating

Truth

Leaf on ice 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

One word of truth outweighs the world.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

My life

Footprint 9, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. 

Love tells me I am everything. 

And between the two 

my life flows. 

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Strength

Life 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Our strength will continue 

if we allow ourselves the courage 

to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable. 

Melody Beattie

Wilderness

Snow Day 3 (2013, 2.16), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

No wilderness, no revelation.

Susan Cain

Wisdom

Snow Day 7 (2013, 2.16), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door
     that's unlocked and opens inward, as long as 
     it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. 

        Ludwig Wittgenstein