The question is always: Who am I?
You see, if I were allowed one single cry to God,
that cry would be: I want to be REAL.
Katherine Mansfield
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Saturday, November 30, 2013
Real
The question is always: Who am I?
You see, if I were allowed one single cry to God,
that cry would be: I want to be REAL.
Katherine Mansfield
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Courage
Faith is not enough.
We must act on our faith.
Inner healing is not enough.
We must heal our world.
Spiritual practice is not enough.
We must have the spiritual courage
to stand up against injustice.
Raine Eisler
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Simile & Metaphor
The poet, however, uses these two crude,
primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and
metaphor) in the most uninhibited way,
because his job is not to describe nature,
but to show you a world completely absorbed
and possessed by the human mind.
Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The Myth of War
The myth of war is essential to justify the horrible sacrifices
required in war, the destruction and the death of innocents.
It can be formed only by denying the reality of war, by turning
the lies, the manipulation, the inhumanness of war into heroic
ideal.
Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Monday, October 29, 2012
I am a Sun.
You may think
I am a shadow,
But inside
I am a sun.
Damia Gates, Grade 4
Elizabeth Roberts & Elias Amidon, eds., Prayers for a Thousand Years
Monday, June 4, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Birthing
If you’re lucky, you’ll emerge again
in someone’s arms;
or unlucky, wake
when the long tail of terror brushes
the inside of your skull.
Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
Friday, March 16, 2012
Lost
RCC_6587, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
"Lost" for me is when I separate myself from what I know
to be true about myself. I become blind to my shadows
and wall myself off from others.
Tom Beech in Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead
by Sam M. Instrator & Megan Scribner
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
the grain of sand
RIC_9880-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
It is not the road ahead that wears you out – it is the grain of sand in your shoe.
Arabian Proverb
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Unawareness
RIC_0192, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Unawareness is the root of all evil.
Anonymous Egyptian Monk
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Greatest Obstacle
RIC_2127, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
cannot change because we are dependent upon what is
wrong. But that is the addicts’ excuses, and we know that it
will not do.
Wendell Berry
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The world
RIC_9436-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable.
Martin Büber
Friday, November 11, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Luxury
Luxury is a necessity that starts where necessity stops.
Coco Chanel, Chanel by Edmond Charles Roux
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Epiphany
Epiphany may also mean a privileged moment in our life among the things of this world, in which they suddenly reveal something we have not noticed until now; and that something is like an intimation of their mysterious, hidden side.
Czeslaw Milosz, A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Life experiences
_DSC4626, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Our life experiences will have resonances
within our innermost being, so that we will
feel the rapture of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Question of Faith
RIC_1548, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
What would happen if Christians devoted the same discipline and self-sacrifice to non-violent peacemaking that armies devote to war?
Ron Sider, quoted in James Loney, Captivity
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Within Us
Within us is the soul of the whole,
the wise silence,
the universal beauty,
the eternal One.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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