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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
We Are Always Traveling
“In one sense we are always traveling, and traveling as if we did not know where we were going. In another sense we have already arrived. We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are traveling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore, in that sense, we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!”
- Thomas Merton, Seven Story Mountain
We Need Curiosity
“As spiritual practitioners we need to have some curiosity about the unknown. When unexplored territory frightens us, we need to ask ourselves, “Where’s our sense of adventure?””
- Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, “Open Stillness”
Take Care of This Day
“A well taken care of today will pave the way for a well taken care of tomorrow.”
- Sri Swami Satchidananda
Every Hour a Miracle
“To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.”
- Walt Whitman
The Best Teachers
You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
- Bernard of Clairvauex
No Names
… I wonder what it would be like to go into a forest where nothing has a name… if we started all over, giving names, would any fact about the forest compel us to name the same units?
- Kathleen Dean Moore
Always Beauty
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer
The Teacher
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
- William Wordsworth
I Am the Tree
I saw the tree was standing there
Bearing some of my life in it
I was rising high in the branches of the tree
And sinking deep in the roots of the tree
Now I am the tree
The tree is me.
- Bal Ram Adhikari
How Trees Preach
Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
- Hermann Hesse
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