God

_DSC6888, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

God is a verb. 

R. Buckminster Fuller

Truth

RCC_5622, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Falsehood has an infinity of combinations,
but truth has only one mode of being. 

Jean Jacque Rousseau

Faith

RCC_9640, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


       You have to have trust in your own self. ... 
     The importance of having faith is to see it 
     concretized in your own self. 

        Esperanza Ortega in Birthing God: Women's Experiences of the Divine by Lana Dalberg

Fear

RIC_3470-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When fear dominates, 

our sense of possibility collapses. 

Sharon Salzberg, 

Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

Truth

Mississauga 1 (2013, 9.18), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Love of the truth puts you on the spot.

Naropa Institute Motto

Sadness

RCC_9615, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Sadness is a wall between two gardens. 

Kahlil Gibran

Healing

Toronto 3 (2013, 11.20), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     The healing comes from letting there be room
     for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief,
     for misery, for joy. 

        Pema Chödrön,
        When Things Fall Apart: 
        Heart Advice for Difficult Times

Listen Completely

RC1_3438, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When people talk,

listen completely.

Ernest Hemingway

Growing Old

Christian Island Ferry, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     One great thing about growing old is
     that nothing is going to lead to anything. 
     Everything is of the moment. 

        Joseph Campbell, 
        A Joseph Campbell Companion:
        Reflections on the Art of Living

Faith

RIC_9666, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Faith never knows where it is being led,
but it knows and loves the One who is leading.

Oswald Chambers

Instructions

Toronto 8 (2013. 10.27), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


      Instructions for living a life:
     Pay attention.
     Be astonished.
     Tell about it.

        Mary Oliver

Secrets

RIC_9614, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Paul Tournier

Wisdom

RC1_9580, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     It is said that no one truly knows a nation 
     until one has been inside its jails.
     A nation should not be judged 
     by how it treats its highest citizens,
     but its lowest ones.

        Nelson Mandela

To be

RIC_5859-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Esse est percipi.

To be is to be perceived.

George Berkley

Self

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

You are what your deep driving desire is.

Brihaduranyaha Upanishad

Except Love

RIC_0926-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Nothing is mysterious,
no human relation.
Except love.

Susan Sontag

Living

Toronto 1 (2013, 11.30), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities. 

Robert Anton Wilson

Creativity

Toronto 4 (2013, 11.8), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Creativity is subtraction. 

Austin Kleon, 

Newspaper Blackout

Play

RIC_3446, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. 

And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. 

What more is needed? 

Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus?  

If we waste time looking for life’s meaning,

we may have no time to live — or to play.

Arthur C. Clarke

Questioning & Faith

RHUC 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


When we claim our right to question everything, 
including our beliefs, we can unhook from our 
dependence on what is familiar and let in
the heartfelt, open, fresh quality of faith. 

Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience