the way

Everything I thought was a mistake, every street I thought was the wrong street, was the only way to get there.

-Reb Shlomo

ark

the landscape

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

-Marcel Proust

blessings

Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.

-Timothy Miller

the view west

on the drive

interior

mistakes

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

-John Powell

'mountain'

powers

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

-Phillips Brooks

'laundry'

letting go

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

-Sogyal Rinpoche

no opposition

Not one single atom opposes us.

- Zen Master Hongzhi

in the kitchen

magic

whole

To regain Eden we pass beyond the ego's divisive judgments and become whole.

-Ming Zhen Shakya

blue rose

JOY

Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.

-Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

inside out

same boat

After an orange cloud — formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and caught up by air currents — reached the Philippines and settled there with rain, I understood that we are all sailing in the same boat.

-Vladimir Kovalyonok (Astronaut)

gold and grey

energy

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

-Duke Ellington

fulfilled

Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

painted

grey