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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Your Soul Is Alive
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleonora Duse
Intrusions of Beauty
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
- Saul Bellow
Paintings
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
- John Ruskin
A Thousand Miracles
To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles.
- Mary Davis
The State of Wonder
When we enter a state of wonder, an opening is created; a possibility arises for us to view the world differently and to come to a different understanding.
- Rachel Macy Stafford
What Do We See?
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.
- C.S. Lewis
Happiness?
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
- Sydney J. Harris
Be Kind
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
- Philo of Alexandria
Extending Compassion
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others — what and whom we can work with, and how — becomes wider.
- Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart
The Wisdom of the Dalai Lama
You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.
- Dalai Lama
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