Adventure

Shadow 6 (2014, 3.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. 

G. K. Chesterton

Nowhere

Shadow 2 (2014, 3.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Find yourself in the middle of nowhere. 

Former Eastend Tourism Slogan

Our Visions

RIC_3371-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Our visions begins with our desires.

Audre Lorde

The Unknown

RIC_3354-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

More and more I've become convinced that 

the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

P. L. Travers

Life

RIC_3272-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Life is not what it's supposed to be.

It's what it is.

The way you cope with it is

what makes the difference.

Virginia Satir

Silence

RIC_3307-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Within each of us there is a silence – 

a silence as vast as a universe.

We are afraid of it …

And we long for it.

Gunilla Norris,

Inviting Silence

Myths

RIC_3292-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Myths are not literally true,
but they do not represent untruths, lies, or fantasies;
they are metaphorically true and often are the only way
to communicate the truth they represent.

Margaret Somerville, 
The Ethical Imagination

Healing

RIC_3229-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Healing may not be so much about getting better,

As about letting go of everything that isn’t you 

– all of the expectations, all of beliefs – 

and becoming who you are.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Courage

Stained Glass 4 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Life shrinks or expands 
in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Creating your own miracle

Field of Snow1 (2014, 3.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     You can create your own miracle. But you do it by
     never looking past all the little steps along the way. 

        Mikaela Shiffrin

Writing

Navajo Heart 1 (2014, 3.3), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Remember that writing is translation and 
the opus to be translated is yourself. 

Elwyn Brooks White

Seeing

St. James United Church, Toronto 7 (2014,,2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

      The eye identifies itself 
     not with the body it belongs to 
     but with the object of its attention.

        Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

What you seek

Prayer Flags 1 (2014, 2.9), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I am that which I am seeking.

Franciscan Saying

Worship

St. James United Church, Toronto 5 (2014, 2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I believe how I live my life everyday
is my act of worship.

Jack Layton

Art

Heart 1 (2014, 2.1), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

Alain de Botton, Art as Therapy

Darkness

St. James United Church, Toronto 3 (2014,,2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

Joseph Brodsky

Being

St. James United Church, Toronto 9 (2014, 2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

You can't really be with others 

until you know how to be with yourself.

Richard Wagmese

A Miracle

St. James United Church, Toronto 2 (2014,,2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

      Here is what I was trying to figure out: 

     how a miracle happens. 

     A great work of art—
     something that makes people pay attention, 

     return to the work again and again,

     and reexamine their assumptions,

     something that infuriates, hurts, and confronts—

     a great work of art is always a miracle.

        Masha Gessen

Creating Change

St. James United Church, Toronto 4 (2014,,2.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The only way we really create change is 

to enter any situation with the humility to listen

and to recognize the world as it is,

and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Wisdom

RCC_5476, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

       We should treat all the trivial things 

     of life very seriously, 

     and all the serious things of life
     with sincere and studied triviality. 

        Oscar Wilde