RIC_2029, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
The wounds to our ego are our teachers and must be welcomed.
They must be paid attention to, not litigated.
Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Slow
DSC_0546, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
There is a secret bond between slowness and memory,
between speed and forgetting.
Milan Kundera
Friday, April 8, 2011
Peace of mind
RIC_6718, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Peace of mind is the cornerstone of spiritual life.
Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Awakening and surrender
RIC_1567, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Awakening and surrender:
they frame each day and each life;
between them the journey where anything can happen,
the beauty and the frailty.
John O’Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Innocence
RIC_9333, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Innocence is more than lack of knowledge and experience;
it’s learning to look at the world with wonder.
Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Humility
DSC_6926, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Humility is the ability to see yourself as an essential part of something larger.
It is the act of living without grandiosity. …
Humility teaches that there are no greater or lesser beings or things.
There is only the whole.
Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song
Monday, April 4, 2011
Nothing/Everything
DSC_4232, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
When we are nothing, we are in a fine position to receive everything from God.
Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Eyes not our own
RIC_9457, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
When we can see the image of God where we don’t want to see the image of God,
then we see with eyes not our own.
Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Healing
RCC_2286 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
May all that I do today contribute to the healing of the world,
and may my heart be open enough to allow the world to contribute to my healing.
Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers
Friday, April 1, 2011
Reaching without holding
RCC_1899, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
I envy the tree,
how it reaches
but never holds.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Vision of a culture
RIC_2030, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions,
in what it remembers, as its most impacting events,
in who it sees as its heroes.
Joan Chittister
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Solution in hieroglyphic
RIC_2089, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Every person’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries they would put.
We act it as life, before we apprehend it as truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Suffering
RIC_1745 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering,
because when it comes you’ll know you are dead.
Tennessee Williams
Monday, March 28, 2011
Reaching
RIC_6393 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
What we reach for may be different,
But what makes us reach is the same.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Waken Yourself
RIC_6447 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
By your own efforts
Waken yourself, watch yourself.
And live joyfully.
You are the master.
Gautama Buddha
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Nature
RIC_1733 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
You have to walk into Nature with your emotional self,
not with your intellectual self.
You need to open wide you heart so that you can become moist
and drink deeply from the emotional echoes that you receive
from the frown of a gnarled tree or the twist of a branch.
not with your intellectual self.
You need to open wide you heart so that you can become moist
and drink deeply from the emotional echoes that you receive
from the frown of a gnarled tree or the twist of a branch.
Malidoma Somé, The Healing Wisdom of Africa
Friday, March 25, 2011
Power to imagine better
RCC_8318 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
We do not need magic to change the world,
we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already:
we have the power to imagine better.
J. K. Rowling
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Power
RIC_1735a a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
We cannot avoid using power,
cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world.
So let us,
cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction,
love powerfully.
Martin Buber
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Failure
RIC_0019 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
You might never fail on the scale I did,
but some failure in life is inevitable.
It is impossible to live without failing at something,
unless you live so cautiously
that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case,
you fail by default.
but some failure in life is inevitable.
It is impossible to live without failing at something,
unless you live so cautiously
that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case,
you fail by default.
J.K. Rowling
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Interconnectedness
RIC_1732 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.
That the happiness of one person or nation is the happiness of humanity.
That the happiness of one person or nation is the happiness of humanity.
His holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Monday, March 21, 2011
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
DSC_0309 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
"Let us honour the memory of those who died in Sharpeville and other racist incidents by redoubling our efforts to eradicate all forms of racism and racial discrimination. Let us translate good intentions into legal standards and the will to uphold them. Above all, let us cherish the rich diversity of humankind and respect the inherent dignity and equality of every human being."
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
Message for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 2010
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Moving on
RIC_6824 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
I can’t do anything about the past.
I am going to get better from here,
stop trying to reinvent myself,
trust my stuff and move on.
I am going to get better from here,
stop trying to reinvent myself,
trust my stuff and move on.
Tim Lincecum, Pitcher, San Francisco Giants
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Change
RIC_6408 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
The stuff of our lives doesn’t change.
It is we who change in relation to it.
Molly Vass
Friday, March 18, 2011
Therapy
RIC_6379 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Therapy is whatever is applied to a situation or condition that brings about healing. …
Therapy means to give birth to, as well as to heal.
Therapy means to give birth to, as well as to heal.
Christina Baldwin, One to One
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Looking
RIC_1874 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Before fixing what you’re looking at,
check what you’re looking through.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Awakening
RIC_1725 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing;
it is a long and painful return that which has always been.
Helen Luke
Monday, March 14, 2011
Bearing Witness
RIC_1706 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
... May be the only hope is that our humanity might kick into a higher gear, that the more we admit to seeing, the more we will beleive we are not that different from each other.
Kim Echlin, The Disappeared
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Grace
RIC_1740 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Grace before us,
Grace beside us,
Grace within us –
All by the grace of God.
Amen.
William S. Kervin, A Year of Grace: 365 Mealtime Prayers
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Life
RIC_1737 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Life alone is only half a life.
Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Friday, March 11, 2011
Discovery
Thus, the task is not so much to see
what no one yet has seen,
but to think what nobody yet has thought
about that which everybody sees.
Schopenhauer
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Fear less, love more
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
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Load you carry
It’s not the load you carry that breaks you down,
it’s the way you carry it.
it’s the way you carry it.
Lena Horne
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Day-to-day living
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
Monday, March 7, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Beginnings
Beginnings are always clearer than endings.
Leslie Scrivener, My First Love (January 1, 2011, Toronto Star)
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Peace & Freedom
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X
Friday, March 4, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Your life
If you could remember one thing and have that be your life, what would it be?
Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Reality
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is a reality.
John Lennon
Monday, February 28, 2011
Attitude
We should treat all the trivial things of life very seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
Oscar Wilde
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
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Beauty
Times are bad and the poet is broke,
But around him is that permanent world of beauty.
James Wilhelm
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
This world
This world is too beautiful to be true,
and too beautiful not to be true.
Roo Borson, Kim Maltman & Andy Patton, Pain Not Bread
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Beauty
Beauty is a sense of universal relations, of being brought into the intensities of even painful feeling.
Robert Duncan
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
for the Other
I am responsible for the Other without waiting for reciprocity, were I to die for it. Reciprocity is his affair. It is precisely insofar as the relation between the Other and me is not reciprocal that I am subjection to the Other; and I am "subject" essentially in this sense. It is I who support all... The I always has one responsibility more than all the others.
Emmanuel Levinas
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