Every spiritual enhancing experience demands a sacrifice of us. For me, the price of admission was a willingness to let that solid block of anger dissolve.
Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Dive again and again
There are pearls in the deep sea,
but one must hazard all to find them.
If diving once does not bring you pearls,
you need not conclude that the sea is without them.
Dive again and again.
Ramakrishna
Friday, May 27, 2011
Integration
What is not integrated is repeated.
Angeles Arrien
Whether pain and suffering will have a proper place in our lives or whether we will be trapped in the canyon of pain and suffering depends on our efforts to integrate our experience into a wholeness that then releases its wisdom.
Mark Nepo, Facing the Lion, Being the Lion: Finding Inner Courage Where It Lives
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Everything is in its place
The soul is always beautiful,
The universe is duly in order, everything is in its place,
What has arrived is in its place and what waits shall be in its place.
Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Love poems
So tell me what it takes to write a love poem.
A generous spirit and a willingness to make a fool of yourself.
It takes those to love, too.
That’s love.
Conversation between Bill Moyers and Nikki Giovanni, Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Solitude
Solitude does not mean living apart from others;
it means never living apart from one’s self.
Parker Palmer
Monday, May 23, 2011
Power
_DSC5506, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Originally, the word power meant able to be.
In time, it was contracted to mean to be able.
We suffer the difference.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
What we think
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
The Buddha
Friday, May 20, 2011
Being present
RIC_3239, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.
The least we can do is try to be there.
The least we can do is try to be there.
Annie Dillard
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Strength
Strength indeed lies in accepting one’s frailties and not in persuading oneself that one has “overcome” them.
Tariq Ramadan, What I Believe
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Sounds of Nature
Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Living well with stories
_RIC3487, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
A good life requires living well with stories.
When life goes badly, a story is often behind that too.
Arthur W. Frank, letting stories breathe
Monday, May 16, 2011
Gardeners of the Spirit
DSC_4931, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit,
Who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth
As without light nothing flowers.
May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
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
Saturday, May 14, 2011
A Person
RIC_4312, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
The Earth is the centre of the universe
The house is the centre of the earth
The family is the centre of the house
The person is the centre of the family.
Basque Song
Friday, May 13, 2011
Finding Self
RCC_8633, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
To look into a mirror;
And to see a mirror,
I find myself again.
Anonymous
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
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Sedentary Agitation
Sedentary Agitation:
Being regularly upset by all that you see
but not getting up and doing anything about it.
Cory Booker
Sunday, May 8, 2011
We are One
RC1_7742, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
We are all Story. … We are energy moving forward to the fullest possible expressions of ourselves, …
We are one. We are, in the end, one story, one song, one spirit, one soul.
Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Every breath you take
_DSC5566, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
To hold nothing back
in every breath
is a spiritual practice.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Friday, May 6, 2011
Perspective
RIC_9773, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Out of clutter, find simplicity.
From discord, find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
Albert Einstein
Thursday, May 5, 2011
War
RIC_1903, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
War creates peace like hate creates love.
David L. Wilson
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The Days
RCC_9469, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
The days are too short for love;
how can there ever be time for quarrelling?
Margaret Gatty
Monday, May 2, 2011
Choices
RC1_0016, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization.
We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Lost in the act of becoming
RIC_2012, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
… something is always
lost in the act of becoming —
as though necessity breeds
the loss of some universal truth ...
Michael Meyerhofer, Dinner Roll Zen in Illuminations, eds. by Mark L. Tompkins and Jennifer McMahon
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Questions
RIC_1949, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.
Frank Kingdon
Friday, April 29, 2011
Role of Artist
RIC_1907, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
Joseph Campbell
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Courage
RIC_1999, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
One cannot remain neutral in the face of injustice, for to do so is to become an accomplice to the injustice.
James Loney, Captivity
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
To give light
RIC_6958, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Victor E. Frankl
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Present Moment
RC1_7734, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
There is only one moment when we can feel truly alive. That is the present moment.
The present moment is the only moment where life is available.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Monday, April 25, 2011
Reconciliation
RIC_2023, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
If we want to achieve reconciliation, not only do we have to struggle with the enemy, but we also have to wrestle with ourselves. And in the struggle we may find ourselves blessed and embraced by the presence of something greater.
Karen Armstrong, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Bliss
RIC_2105, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Bliss does not come from outside. It comes from inside, from serving the people.
Anna Hazare
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Saintliness
RIC_1943, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
It is the struggle and strain of hope that brings about saintliness.
Brian D. McLaren
Friday, April 22, 2011
Your time
RIC_1928, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Walk around feeling like a leaf.
Know you could tumble any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.
Naomi Shihab Nye, The Art of Disappearing
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Two Extremes
RIC_1910, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
There are two extremes to avoid:
being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.
Henry Nouwen
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The Grasp of Your Hand
DSC_8882, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling
Your mercy in my success alone; but let me find
the grasp of Your hand in my failure.
Rabindranath Tagore, The Grasp of Your Hand
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Be open
RIC_1901, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
As an inlet cannot close itself to the sea that shapes it,
the heart can only wear itself open.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Monday, April 18, 2011
Why were you not Zusya?
RIC_1916, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
When I die and go to the world to come, they will not ask me, Zusya, why were you not Moses?
They will ask me: Zusya, why were you not Zusya?
They will ask me: Zusya, why were you not Zusya?
Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol , Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim: Early Masters
Sunday, April 17, 2011
To live
RIC_2034, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Being human
RIC_2004, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
Everyone should keep a piece of paper with “for my sake the world was created” in one pocket and a piece of paper with “I am but dust and ashes” in another. The Rabbi was expressing an existential truth: each individual being is important, but not self-important.
Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshicha (1765-1827) quoted by Seth Segall
Friday, April 15, 2011
Change
RC1_4432 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Express yourself
RIC_1981, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Unspoken expectations are resentments in waiting.
Anonymous
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
When Someone Deeply Listens to You
RIC_1974, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
When someone deeply listens to you
your bare feet are on the earth
and a beloved land that seemed distant
is now at home within you.
John Fox, When Someone Deeply Listens to You
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Teachings
RCC_9504, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
The ancient teachings are not a romantic throwback to a vanished lifestyle
but a resonant of our contemporary responsibilities.
Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song
Monday, April 11, 2011
What Matters
RCC_6484 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.
As is a tale, so is life:
not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca
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