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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Don’t Fix the Flower!
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
- Alexander Den Heijer
Traveling Words
“Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
What Makes Enough?
“”Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.””
- Hans Christian Anderson
Sunshine and Smiles
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”
- Joseph Addison
Rain Not Thunder
“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
- Jalaluddin Rumi
Plum Blossom Fragrance
“Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?”
- Matsuo Basho
It Must Be a Gift
“It must be a gift
from the Pure Land –
a thistle’s purple bloom”
- Clotilde Junsui Wright
Finding Ordinary Miracles
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
- Hans Christian Anderson
True Miracles
“To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.”
- Walt Whitman
Why Do We Build Ships?
“When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But…that is not what great ships are built for.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
