Story

Jar 1 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The story that lives is the story that's told. 

Colin Hesterly, When I Grow Up

On faith

RIC_2310, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Believing that your faith tradition alone contains God 
is like believing the rain falls only in your cup.

John Shore

Care

Prayer Beads (2013, 2.9), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When people care for you,
they can straighten out your soul.

Langston Hughs

Peace

RCC_0766, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

There is no way to peace,

peace is the way.

A. J. Muste

Discovery

RIC_2219, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Discovery consists of seeing
     what everybody has seen
     and thinking
     what nobody has thought.

        Albert Szent-Györgyi

At the light

RCC_5997-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Everything arrives at the light.

Lorna Crozier

Your adventure

Candle 2 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Your adventure has to be coming right out of your own interior.

Joseph Campbell

Grace

DSC_4219, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


I do not at all understand the mystery of grace –
only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us
where it found us. 

Anne Lamott

Vulnerable

RIC_5490-1 b/w, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable

move among mysteries.

Theodore Roethke

Seeing

RIC_4522, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

On a clear day

I can see

so far

into

myself.

Richard C. Choe, Seeing

Perspective

RIC_7662-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The most important power we have is

the power to help select the lens

through which we see reality.

David Brooks

Out of no way

Shadow 1 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

God always makes a way out of no way.

Veronica Goines

Perspective

Afternoon shadow 1 (2013,2.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     How we see things determines what we do,
     and what we do determines the result we get.

        Stephen R. Covey, The 3rd Alternative

Questions I ask

RIC_2582-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

My story is in the questions I ask.

Maria Ochoa

Memory

Korean Lamp, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The best things in life are

the people you love,

the places you've seen,

and the memories you've made

along the way.

Anonymous

Service

Jar 2 (2013,2.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

Hope

A matter of time, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When hope is not pinned

wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation,

it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Whole Story

RCC_1129, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


I don't know my whole story.
And if I don't know my whole story,
I can't heal myself.

Richard Wagamese

Hope

Candles 3 (2013,1.29), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Dum spiro spero.

While I breathe, I hope.

Cicero

Presence

Sunset 1 (2013,1.31), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.

They're in each other all along.

Rumi

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

Living

Neighbourhood 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The divine lives within you.
Live from your own centre.

Joseph Campbell

Meaning

Lamp & reflection, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Being alive is the meaning. 

Joseph Campbell

Compassion

RC1_4927, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The purpose of the journey 

is compassion.

Joseph Campbell

I love you

RC1_4882, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I love you

Not only for what you are

But for what I am

When I am with you.

Roy Croft, The Recognition

Yes

Chandelier 3 (2013, 1.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

After the final no there comes a yes

and on that yes the future world depends.

Wallace Stevens

Our only friend

Neighbourhood 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The world speaks everything to us.

It is our only friend.

William Stafford

Surviving

Planet of the Bamboos, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We're never gonna survive

unless we get a little bit crazy.

Seal

On the edge

Half the Sky 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If you're not on the edge,

you are taking up too much room.

Bumper sticker

Awakening

Operator, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

How did I get so lucky

to have my heart awakened

to others and their suffering?

Pema Chödrön

Future

Half the sky, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The future is no more uncertain than the present. 

Walt Whitman

Changes

RC1_3581, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     This is how the world always changes.
     Everyday people not waiting for someone else to 
     fix things or come to their rescue, 
     but simply stepping forward, working together, 
     figuring out how to make things better. 

        Margaret J. Wheatley

In each other

_DSC7173, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.

Rumi

Possibilities

RIC_6167-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Only those who will risk going too far,

can possibly find out how far one can go. 

T. S. Eliot

Radical Imagination

Street Light on Kingston Road 7, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Radical imagination begins with a move beyond complaint and resistance, beyond reactive tinkering or hunkering down or cynical accommodation. The first big move is to an alternative picture of 
how things could be instead. 

Anthony Weston, A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries

Visibility

Rays (2013, 1.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     I do think visibility is important. 
     I do think that the tide of history only moves forward
     when everybody is feeling visible. 

        Anderson Cooper

Light

Candle 2 at J&J, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path

without brightening our own. 

Ben Sweetland

Light

Lamp in Snow, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
     To change something, build a new model that makes
     the existing model obsolete.

        R. Buckminster Fuller

Writer

Writing tools, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, the wounds so secret that we ourselves are barely aware of them, and to patiently explore them, know them, illuminate them, to won those pains and wounds, and to make them a conscious part of our spirits and our writing.

Orhan Pamuk, My Father's Suitcase

Vocation

Winter Vacation, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Your job is to find what the world is trying to be.

William Stafford

Hope

Dec. 28, '12, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. Hope does not come with the right attitude.
Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is an action. Hope is doing something. ...
Hope demands for others what we demand for ourselves. Hope does not separate us from them. Hope sees in our enemy our own face.

Chris Hedges, Real Hope Is About Doing Something, truthdig

Life

Blue Christmas at KRU 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Life has a practice of living you,
     if you don't live it.

        Philip Larkin

Breathe

Driving in Snowy Night (11.26, '12) 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Breathe in experience,

breathe out poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

Light

Light rays, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Make of youself a light.

Buddha

Capacity to receive

Rays (2013, 1.1) #2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Living

Orchid 2 (2013.1.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Living is the original art.

Mark Nepo,

As Far As the Heart Can See: Stories to Illuminate the Soul

Disturbing the war

RIC_4069-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


They'll say we're disturbing the peace,
but there is no peace. 
What really bothers them is that 
we are disturbing the war.

Howard Zinn

by our children

DSC_5661, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The world has not left us by our parents,
     it was lent us by our children.

        African Proverb

Hunger for Bread & Justice

DSC_4846, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


O God, to those who have hunger give bread,
And to us who have bread give the hunger for justice.

Prayer from Latin America

God in me

RCC_0795, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     I believe that God is in me
     as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of flower –
     the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

        Helen Keller