A Miracle

St. James United Church, Toronto 2 (2014,,2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

      Here is what I was trying to figure out: 

     how a miracle happens. 

     A great work of art—
     something that makes people pay attention, 

     return to the work again and again,

     and reexamine their assumptions,

     something that infuriates, hurts, and confronts—

     a great work of art is always a miracle.

        Masha Gessen

Beauty

Kinton Ramen 7 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Khalil Gibran

Culture

Kinton Ramen 3 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Culture does not make people,
people make culture.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Perception

RIC_5430-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


If you perceive the universe as being 
a universe of abundance, then it will be. 
If you think of the universe 
as one of scarcity, then it will be. 

Milton Glaser

Good intentions

Wanda's Pie in the Sky 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I myself am made entirely of flows, stitched together with good intentions.

Augustine Burroughs, 

Magical Thinking: True Stories

Being you

Candles 1 (2013, 1. 29), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The privilege of a life time

is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

Giving

RIC_5382-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

She gives most who gives with joy.

Mother Teresa

See the history of the Other

Table for two, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Unless you actually saw the history of the other,
     no matter what your perspective is, you couldn't
     really understand where we are (and) how we got
     here.

        Sandy Tolan, author of The Lemon Tree

Poetry

Wet Day 1 (9.14, '12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

Nathalie Sarraute

Life

Reflection (9.16, '12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Life is a mystery to be lived,

not a problem to be solved. 

Soren Kierkegaard

Play

Stones and Wood, Five Oaks 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

All life should be lived as play.

Plato

Setting Free

RIC_3291-2 , a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     The moment you can visualize being free from the things

     that hold you back, you have indeed begun to set yourself

     free.

       Unknown

But the question

RIC_8823-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr. 

It's not the answer that enlightens, but the question. 

Eugene Ionesco

Fear less, love more

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Fear less, hope more,

Eat less, chew more,

Whine less, breathe more,

Talk less, say more,

Love more, and all good things will be yours.

Swedish Proverb

Beauty

RIC_9750
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Oscar Wilde

Simplicity

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity,
but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Greatest disease

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or Leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love.

Mother Teresa, A Simple Path