RON HENGGELER

January 5, 2024
Moments of Time in San Francisco 

Reflections and thoughts for stepping into the New Year

Oh friends, put aside these sounds! 
Let us be more civil to each other,
And speak more joyfully.

Beethoven

If you're reading this...

Congratulations, you're alive.

If that's not something to smile about,

then I don't know what is.

Chad Sugg

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Michelangelo

North Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge

Mark Anstendig

What we think, we become.

Buddha

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Detail of a mural at Coit Tower

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Hans Christian Andersen

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.  

Voltaire

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Joseph Campbell

Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

Tower of the Bay Bridge viewed from Yerba Buena Island

Pink Triangle

Twin Peaks

San Francisco Davies Symphony Hall

Heide

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

Pioneer Monument

Civic Center Plaza

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

Stephen

San Francisco City Hall

The future is always beginning now.

Mark Strand

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Joseph Campbell

Knock, And He'll open the door

Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun

Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens

Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

Rumi

Market & Grant

Peter

San Francisco Federal Building

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

Velocity Arts & Entertainment

St. Joseph's Art Society

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

Isaiah

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Gregangelo

Gregangelo Museum

Mural at Coit Tower

Photo by Mark Anstendig

Rincon Tower

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Jane Goodall

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Jack Kerouac

Apple Cider Press

Music Concourse, Golden gate Park

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Ernest Holmes

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. 

William Shakespeare

Fort Point

Historical Ships Museum at Aquatic Park

On 17th Street in Mission District

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau