Accept, Then Act

Accept, then act. Whatever the present moment
contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Always work with it, not against it.
Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy.
This will miraculously transform your whole life.

Eckhart Tolle

Attention on the Now

Focus your attention on the Now
and tell me what problem you have
at this moment.

Eckhard Tolle

The Photographer's Context

For the camera, the creative moment is brief -
a compelling, ephemeral collision of event and artist.
Extreme awareness combined with unobtrusiveness
becomes the context the photographer must work with.

Ken Ruth

A True Picture

My station in life is to capture the action of life,
the life of the world, its humor, its tragedies.
In other words, life as it is, a true picture unposed
and real.

W. Eugene Smith

Be the Buddha

Don't quote the Buddha,

be the Buddha.

Eckhart Tolle

The Most Regretful

The most regretful people on earth are those
who felt the call to creative work, who felt
their own creative power restive and uprising,

and gave to it neither power nor time.

Mary Oliver

How to See Without a Camera

The camera is an instrument
that teaches people how to see
without a camera.

Dorothea Lange