Generosity

Blue Christmas at KRU 5, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Don't live through life,

give through life.

Michael Powell,

A Thousand Paths to Generosity

Service

Candle (12.14,'12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     You will truly serve only what you love
     because service is love made visible.

        Stephen Colbert

Growth

RIC_9796, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Change is inevitable,

Growth is optional.

John C. Maxwell

Science

Star (12.12, '12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Science cannot take away the ultimate mystery of life,

nor can it detract from the spiritual component of healing. 

James Oschman

The Universe Story

RCC_9953, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Everything tells the story of the universe.
The winds tell the story, literally, not just imaginatively. The story has its imprint everywhere, and that is why it is so important to know the story. 
If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself; you do not know anything. 

Thomas Berry, The Universe Story

The Book to read

Books, office, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The book to read is not the one that thinks for you
     but the one which makes you think.

        Harper Lee

As it is

RIC_1854-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We cannot change the world as it is,

but by opening ourselves to the world as it is,

we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available – 

not only to us but to all human beings.

Chögyam Trungpa, Shambhala: The Sacred path of the Warrior

Cry of my heart

RIC_1837-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     My Lord,
     You have heard the cry of my heart
     because it was
     You Who cried out within my heart.

        Thomas Merton, Dialogue with Silence

Hope

RIC_1847-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well,
     but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of
     how it turns out. 

        Václav Havel

Radical Welcome

Linus 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Radical welcome is a process. It is a process by
     which isolated parts of a whole community are
     brought together in creative and compassionate
     way to generate a more integrated, balanced and
     dynamic mixture.

        Steven Charleston

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