Science & Spirituality

RC1_9613, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Science explores the world as it is offered to the five senses
and the brain, while spirituality considers the universe to be purposeful and imbued with meaning.

Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow, War of the Worldviews

Peace

Fallen, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Our capacity to make peace with another person
     and with the world depends very much on our
     capacity to make peace with ourselves.

        Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

Heaven

RC1_7854, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To eat is heaven.

Confucius

Growing Edge

Flowers (Oct. 24, '12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Look well to the growing edge.
     It's the basis of hope in moments of despair.

        Howard Thurman

Knowing

Lamp (2012, 12.2), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We can learn about others by studying ourselves.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

Choose Hope

RIC_8644-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Between hope and despair
     choose hope:
     it will be harder to bear.
        Boris Novak, Decisions (tr. Dintinjana)

Real Dialogue

Masjid 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


When we have peace within,
real dialogue with others is possible.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

Decisions

View 1a, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Between two words
     choose the quieter one.

        Boris Novak, Decisions (tr. Dintinjana)

Watchful

Candle and Stones 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


       We all live for the Light
             that the lowly born, a glimmer, lead
     the way

     and you wake up, still in the dark
     but watchful and ready now.

        Sandra M. Tully, When You Are a Child

The Way of Love

Sick Kids 1, Toronto, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The way of love is indistinguishable,
     moreover, from the way of freedom.

        Wendell Berry, Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Abundant Life

Night 16(2012, 11.21), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


To be free of indifference would be
to have life more abundantly.

Wendell Berry, Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Quarrels

Created with ToonCamera, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric;
     out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

        W. B. Yeats

About God

Night 4 (2012, 11.21), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Our idea of God tells us
more about ourselves than about God.

Thomas Merton

Truth

Museum Station #12 (2012,11,7), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Love

Toon Iona Cross, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

Integrity

Bloor & Avenue #8, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If you don't become the ocean,

you'll be seasick every day.

Leonard Cohen

Giving

RIC_5382-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

She gives most who gives with joy.

Mother Teresa

Mirrors we use

Bloor & Avenue #5, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What we don't see is that

the mirrors we use are distorted.

Mark Labberton,

The Dangerous Act of Loving your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus

The Enemy of the Moment

Crown of Thorns by Tune, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


War had been literally continuous, thought strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. ... 
The enemy of the moment always represented 
absolute evil.

George Orwell, 1984

The Myth of War

RCC_9693, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The myth of war is essential to justify the horrible sacrifices
     required in war, the destruction and the death of innocents.
     It can be formed only by denying the reality of war, by turning
     the lies, the manipulation, the inhumanness of war into heroic
     ideal. 

        Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning