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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
The Gift of Paradox
Paradox is where enlightenment is born – it’s not about resolving or conquering paradox by choosing one side; rather, it’s in the tension of more than one true being true that a new wisdom arises.
- Kai Cheng Thorn
The Dawning of a New Day
There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.
- Alan Watts
I Smile
Waking up this morning, I smile.
Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.
I vow to live fully i each moment
and to look at beings
with eyes of compassion
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Prospect of a New Day
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
- J.B. Priestley
Don’t Just Sit There!
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Flower of Gratitude
Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.
- Pope Francis
Happy Thanksgiving
Gratefulness opens me up to receive the flow of blessing and connects me with the source of that flow.
- Rabbi Shefa Gold
Belief in Goodness
The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world and strengthens us thereby to do what’s good.
- Albert Schweitzer
What Do We Need?
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.
- Michael Josephson
The Doorway to Gratitude
Attention is the doorway to gratitude, the doorway to wonder, the doorway to reciprocity.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
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