Journey

Toronto 10 (2013. 10.27), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, 
     which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. 
     Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, 
     for the footprints we leave behind are 
     as important as the path we will follow. 
     They’re part of the same journey — our story.

        Lori R. Lopez, 
        Dance Of The Chupacabras

Starting-Position

"Queen's Park Subway Station" 1 (2014, 1.18), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

In Navigation one must fix one's starting-position 

as precisely as one's objective. 

John Franklin, 

quoted in Sten Nadolny, The Discovery of Slowness

A Different Language

Coffee sign (2014, 1.19), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

Blessing

Kinton Ramen 1 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Us

and this,

bless.

Amen.

Quaker Blessing

Myth

Foggy Day 6 (2014, 2.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Myth is never a single story.
It is always a tree with many branches.

Roberto Calasso

Love

Wheel Chair (2014, 1.18), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Love is the very difficult understanding 
that something other than yourself is real. 

Iris Murdock

Hell

Foggy Day 9 (2013, 1.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What is hell? 

I maintain that it is the suffering of

being unable to love. 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Prayer

Cross 1 (2014, 1.19), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


O let me wear secretly ...
the sacred mark impressed by
Your own hand.

Ravindranath Tagore

State of Grace

RIC_7780-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

        
     State of Grace:
     It's achieving the peace and
     freedom of living in the moment,
     and not allowing past wrongs
     to colour the present.

        Olivia Chow, My Journey

Darkness

Foggy Day 1 (2014, 1.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


It is not by looking into the light that we become luminous,
but by plunging into the darkness.

Carl G. Jung

Opposites

Stained Glass 1 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     You cannot know a thing
     unless you know its opposite.
     You cannot become sincere
     unless you have experienced
     hypocrisy and decided
     to fight against it.

        Abu Uthman Maghrebi

Companion

Shadow 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Forget your profile;
it is out of fashion.
But pay attention to the one
walking close to you
whose existence you do not believe in.

Antonio Machado

Life

Victoria University 2 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     We spend our life until we're thirty
     deciding what parts of ourself to stuff into 
     the invisible bag we drag behind us and 
     we spend the rest of our lives 
     trying to get them again.

        Robert Bly

Beauty

Kinton Ramen 7 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Khalil Gibran

Understanding

Victoria University 1 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand
     that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. 

        Mark Twain

Culture

Kinton Ramen 3 (2014, 1.15), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Culture does not make people,
people make culture.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Accountability

Foggy Day 4 (2014, 1.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

With great power,
comes great responsibility.

Voltaire

Most interesting

Foggy Day 5 (2014, 1.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The things that doesn't fit
is the things that is most interesting.

Richard Feynman

Future

Foggy Day 3 (2014, 1.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     I cannot be me without you
     and we cannot be us without them,
     and together we have a future.

        Philip Carter

Beauty.

Foggy Day 2 (2014, 2.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Ex divination pulchritudine
esse omnium derivatur. 

From the beauty of the Divine
comes all that is. 

Thomas Aquinas