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

Questioning

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


     Questioning means longing to know the truth deeply, 
     and insisting that we can. It means leaving whatever 
     distant slant we may occupy to come close and see
     more directly what is true. And it means being 
     willing to be honest about how we ourselves are 
     seeing things, even if that vision differs from the norm. 
     Learning to question means feeling we have the innate right 
     to all of this.

        Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

Understanding

Toronto 1 (2013, 9.6), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, 
     but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, 
     in it, through and by it.

        Anais Nin

Hope

RIC_8728-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I would love to live
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.

John O'Donohue, 
Fluent

Integrity

RIC_0887-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If you want to be successful, 

you must respect one rule. 

'Never lie to yourself.' 

Paulo Coelho

Love

Toronto 2 (8.28, '13), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     God does not love you because you are lovable. 
     You are lovable because God loves you. 

        Desmond Tutu

Seeing

RIC_0719-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The eye with which I see God is 
the same eye with which God sees me. 

Meister Eckardt

Metaphor

Tansley United Church 2 (2013, 10. 17), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Metaphor is a way of thought 
     long before it is a way with words. 

        James Geary, 
        I is an Other: 
        The Secret Life of Metaphor and
        How It Shapes the Way We See the World

Wisdom

Toronto 5 (2013, 9.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

It is possible to live and not know. 

Richard Feynman

We

Toronto 5 (8.31, 2013), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

This is I, You, Me, We. 

Rumi