Category Archives: Visual Soliloquy

Visual Soliloquy #44 When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but…

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

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Visual Soliloquy #43 You can grunt and heave, sweat and strain, wear yourself out…

You can grunt and heave, sweat and strain, wear yourself out, and unless you simply forget about it and step up, you won’t even get off the ground. — Mike Borghoff.

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Visual Soliloquy #42

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. –Pablo Picasso

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Visual Soliloquy #41

Just don’t give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. –Ella Fitzgerald

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Visual Soliloquy #40

…I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realised, than lord among those without dreams and desires. – Kahlil Gibran

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Visual Soliloquy #39

Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. – Irish Proverb

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Visual Soliloquy #38

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. –Morris West

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Visual Soliloquy #37

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. –Bo Bennett

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Visual Soliloquy #36

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. –Carl Sandburg

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Visual Soliloquy #35

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. –Thomas Merton

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Visual Soliloquy #34

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted. –Unknown

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Visual Soliloquy #33

I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart. –Dalai Lama

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Visual Soliloquy #32

I wear a poppy so that others can see That I respect those who died for me The bright red shows of the blood that was shed For me and for others who live far ahead

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Visual Soliloquy #31

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. –Alexander Pope And from Rick Mercer…Remember to Remember.  

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Visual Soliloquy #30

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. –Brian Tracy

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Visual Soliloquy #29

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. –Edwin Way Teale

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Visual Soliloquy #28

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. –Zhuangzi

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Visual Soliloquy #27

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Visual Soliloquy #26

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. –Helen Keller

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Visual Soliloquy #25

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. –Norman Maclean

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Visual Soliloquy #24

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #23

Sometimes the more goal-oriented we are, the less likely we are to obtain that goal. If you really, really want something, you have to forget how much you want it. Or else you’ll be too nervous to get it. But … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #22

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.  The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do.  You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #21

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. –Parker Palmer

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Visual Soliloquy #20

“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.” –Nancy Willard

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Visual Soliloquy #19

The true measure of one’s worth is not where you come to be at journey’s end, but in the lives you touch along the way. –Anonymous

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What’s TA Climbing Next? Clue #4

Alright! Things are heating up in the guessing department. I’m loving how you are all catches some of the subtle clues in the images and putting it together with some google or bing action to come up with all new … Continue reading

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What’s TA Climbing Next? Clue #3

OK. I know many of you are dying to know. Feeling impatient and wanting me to just spill the beans. Here is another clue to help you guess what I am climbing next…put all the pieces together from the images … Continue reading

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What’s TA Climbing Next? Clue #2

We all know I love hockey.  Probably more than I love climbing mountains (but don’t tell anyone).  I usually like to play forward but on Fridays I play D.  I love to score but even more, I love to deliver … Continue reading

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What’s TA Climbing Next? Clue #1

So after months of hemming and hawing, sorting and sighing, planning and proposing, looking and logisticating…I’ve finally decided what to climb next BUT I’m not telling just yet. In the spirit of fun and frivolity, I’ll release a photo clue … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #18

It’s Wear Purple Day so I only thought it fitting that I find a photograph that wears some too!

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Visual Soliloquy #17

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. –Aeschylus

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Visual Soliloquy #16

The day was here. The woman stopped rocking in her chair. Pushing off the arms, she stood. She swayed some but caught her balance. She looked back towards the front door. She looked out to the awakening day. Her decision … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #15

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #14

“Our life is an endless journey… The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road.” – Chögyam Trungpa

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Visual Soliloquy #13

The summit in view So high in the air, Congrats to Eric For standing there! Eric Larsen summitted Mount Everest this morning completing his Save the Pole Expedition. He skied to the South Pole, then the North Pole and then … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #12

That there is a place somewhere in the middle-not the middle of the road but the middle way-someplace found my touching the edges to find the boundary of the possible-and then easing to a space that allows all possibilities and … Continue reading

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Visual Soliloquy #11

Mountains are my teachers. I teach like the mountains teach me. With vision. With struggle. Asking students to reach up for an unknown sky, I ask for mindful engagement–for to climb or teach or learn without, leads to disaster.

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Visual Soliloquy #10

An Open Gate in Chile In Honour of Miners Freed Welcome Home

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Visual Soliloquy #9

Mountains are both solid and moving. They are steady, wise, and seemingly unyielding while at the same time they are changing through erosion and time.

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