Faith

Toronto 6(2013. 10.27), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Belief clings, faith lets go. 

Alan Watts

Possibilities

Five Oaks 1 (2013, 9.12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     If your mind is empty,
     it is always ready for anything;
     it is open to everything.
     In the beginner's mind
     there are many possibilities,
     in the expert's mind there are few.

        Shunryu Suzuki

Longing

Toronto (2013, 10.24), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Blessed be the longing that brought you here
And quickens your soul with wonder. 

John O’Donohue, 

Blessing for Longing

Your Stories

Toronto 1 (2013, 11.10), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Don't forget — no one else sees the world the way you do, 
     so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

        Charles de Lint

Soul

Real Jerk Restaurant (2013, 10.6), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When the soul wishes 

To experience something, 

She throws an image 

Of the experience out 

Before her and enters into 

Her own image. 

Meister Eckhart

Art

Prayer 1 (2013, 10.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Art is a tool to set up new questions. 

Ai Weiwei

Creativity

Toronto 2 (2012, 9.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Creativity isn't the monopoly of artists,
this is the crucial fact I've come to realize and 
this broader concept of creativity is my concept of art. 

Joseph Benys

Stories

Toronto 1 (2013, 10.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Be careful which stories you expose yourself to.  ...
     The meanings you find, and the stories you hear, 
     will have an impact on how optimistic you are:
     it’s how we evolved. … If you do not know how to draw 
     positive meaning from what happens in life, 
     the neural pathways you need to appreciate good news 
     will never fire up.

        Philippa Perry

Love

RCC_9595, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Love doesn't die.
People do.
So, when all that's left of me
Is love,
Give me away.

Merrit Malloy, When I Die

Remembrance

RIC_4086, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Dwell on the past, and you'll lose an eye.

Forget the past, and you'll lose both eyes.

Russian Proverb

Wisdom

RIC_0965-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Don't allow your wounds 
to transform you into someone you are not. 

Paulo Coelho

Creativity

Knox United Church (2013, 10.7), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Creativity is piercing the mundane 

to find the marvelous. 

Bill Moyers

Harmony

Christian Island 1 (2013, 9.21), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Don't grieve.

Anything you lose comes around in another form.

Rumi

Love

On the way to Christian Island (2013, 9.22), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The wise are only wise only because they love.
     The fools are only fools only because they think
     they can understand love. 

        Paulo Coelho

Fear

RIC_0709-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.

W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety

The Miracle

Bramalea, Ontario, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The miracle is that we are here,
     that no matter how undone we've been the night before,
     we wake up every morning and are still here.  
     It is phenomenal just to be.

        Anne Lamott, Stitches 

Truth

DSC_0876-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Truth can appear as disaster in a land
of things unspoken.

Joy Harjo

Through Love

RIC_0947-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Hope becomes faith through love. 

Søren Kierkegaard

Belonging

RIC_6978-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


I am not saying that it would be lovely if we could be
connected; I am saying, we are connected. Whether 
or not I like the idea, you belong to me. We belong 
to all creatures, and all creatures belong to us. 

N. Gordon Cosby, 
Seized by the Power of a Great Affection

History

RIC_1535-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

History isn't only what happens to us.

History is what we make happen. 

Each of us. 

All of us. 

Milton Meltzer