At Sunset

(April 27, 2008)

“The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.”
–Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nosara

(April 20, 2008)



“I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me, The memory of your name” –Laurence Hope

Paradise

(April 17, 2008)

“I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it” –Thomas Merton

Gone Fishin’

(March 29, 2008)



“Folks seem to have just landed in them usually-their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d been forgotten. We hear about those who just went on..I wonder what sort of tale we’ve fallen into?” –Frodo (Lord of the Rings)

Storm Warning

(March 9, 2008)

“Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.” –Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Blue Skies

(March 4, 2008)

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” –Alexander Solzenitzen

Lamposts

(March 1, 2008)

“Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness” –Hannah Moore

Red Skies

(February 18, 2008)

“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. But life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. Every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made. Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.” –Anthony De Mello

Soaring Over Rooftops

(January 14, 2007)

“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.” — James Joyce

A Walk at Sunrise

(January 7, 2008)

“God does not die on the day we cease to believe in a personal deity. But we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance of wonder renewed daily, the source of which is beyond all reason.” We don’t have to quarrel about a word, because “God” is only a word, a concept. One never quarrels about reality; we only quarrel about opinions, about concepts, about judgments. Drop your concepts, drop your opinions, drop your prejudices, drop your judgments, and you will see that. –Anthony De Mello (quoting Dag Hammarskjold)