Happy Face

“The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.”
― Yann Martel

Federal Street Girls

“Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.”
― Pema Chödrön

Double the Pleasure

“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
― Joseph Conrad

Big Gulp

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. … Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
― Steve Jobs

Beautiful

The Beginning of Fall

“I’ve seen most of what
there is to be afraid of in this world, and to tell you the truth,
the worst of them are the ones that make you afraid in the
light. The things that your eyes see plainly and can’t forget
are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.
Imagination has a poor memory; it slinks away and goes
blurry. Eyes remember for much longer.”
― Kendare Blake

This Morning

“Nirbala ke bala Rama”: ‘He is the help of the helpless, the strength of the weak.’  –Indian Hymn

Sleeping in the Truck

“God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being and let God be God in you.”   –Meister Eckhart

Jen’s Annual Pig Roast

“The answer to any malaise consisted in going deeper into it and not trying to escape into some mythical land of make-believe. “ –David Brookes

Primary Colours

“They didn’t consciously reject the lifestyle of the affluent mainstream; they just sort of ignored it.  They lived and thought differently, and their lives had taken on a different and deeper shape.  They had a greater awareness of the wellsprings of the human heart..”                    –David Brooks