Complete

RIC_5016-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr. 

It is better to be complete than perfect.

C. G. Jung

Compassion

RCC_6780, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What I want in my life is compassion,

a flow between myself and others based

on a mutual giving from the heart.

Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Art

RIC_4976-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A work of art is a gift, not a commodity.

Lewis Hyde,

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

Question to ponder

RC1_4007, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon

if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Thomas Merton, The wisdom of the Desert

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Making peace with our shadow

RIC_1954, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   Making peace with our shadow and befriending it are
     fundamental to authentic self-esteem.

    John Monbourquette, How to Befriend Your Shadow: Welcoming Your Unloved Side

Grief

RCC_8256, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You can never get enough of what you don’t really want.

Eric Hoffer

Justice

RCC_7853, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If I am not a man here, you are not a man here.

James Baldwin,

The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings

God

RIC_9639-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   The God who is present to us is present
     to others as well. The God who guides
     us guides others also; the God who
     cares for us cares also for others. The
     whole world is touched by God,
     and therefore the world can mediate
     God’s presence to us. 

    Marjorie Suchocki,

    God, Christ, Church: A Practical Guide to Process

    Theology

Gift

RCC_6619, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift.

Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

Looking Inward

RIC_2148, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of
     the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of
     looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where
     all the contradictions flow together.

    Terrence Mckenna

Unity

RC1_0718, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.

Ethiopian proverb

Imperfection

RIC_9404-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   To deny imperfection is to disown
     oneself, for to be human is to be
     imperfect.

    Ernest Kurtz and  Katherine Ketcham,

    The Spirituality of Imperfection

Living

RCC_9822, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr

I could live my life believing there are no miracles, no magic

and no deeper meaning; or I could believe that the

impossible is possible, that the heart can love in all

circumstances, that hope is infinite, promises are forever.

Leanne O'Neil

Unawareness

RIC_0192, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Unawareness is the root of all evil. 

Anonymous Egyptian Monk

Greatest Obstacle

RIC_2127, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The greatest obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we
  cannot change because we are dependent upon what is
  wrong. But that is the addicts’ excuses, and we know that it
  will not do.

Wendell Berry

Peaceful Revolution

RIC_9580-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make
     violent revolution inevitable. 

    John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

RC1_0694, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidity is original.

Huge Kerr

Terror

RIC_0199, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr. 

   
     Everything terrifying is, in its deepest being, something
     helpless that wants our help.

    Maria Rilke

Fear

RIC_9552-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Some of the worst events in my life never happened. 

Mark Twain

Creature

RIC_9589-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     There is a crack in everything God has made.

      Ralph Waldo Emerson