Wisdom

Pebbles, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Wisdom is slippery.
It comes in many forms and guises.
Sometimes it is intermingled with a certain amount of unwisdom.

Henry Alford,
How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People

Play

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

All life should be lived as play.

Plato

Suffering Servants

RIC_4211-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     Weathered rocks and weathered faces remind us that we

     should not move through time as conquerors, but as

     suffering servants.

       Gregory Wolfe, 

       "A Theology of Erosion," Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and

       Mystery

Process

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

When you focus on the outcome rather than the process, you can easily miss the target by ignoring all the little clues along the way that point you in the right direction. … The biggest distraction of all is focusing too intently on the goal.

Gary Fong, the accidental millionaire: how to succeed in life without really trying