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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Category: Beauty
Wisdom from Emily Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -Emily Dickinson
More on Beauty
Somewhere between 551 and 491 BCE, Confucius observed the same thing that we might say today: Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius
Wisdom of Kahil Gibran
Here is another author that I read in high school; The Prophet was quite popular those days. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. – Kahil Gibran
May Hatred Be Transformed by Beauty
May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers. – Shantideva, 8th century Buddhist teacher
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. – Richard P. Feynman
God’s Handwriting
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. –… Continue Reading “God’s Handwriting”
The Garden
The Garden I heard you blooming in the sun’s crescendo, your sepals stretching, petals open in an ecstasy of hue– the overture of Eden. – Nancy Compton Williams
Drink of the Experience of Spring, While It Is Still Spring
The one who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is apt to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. – Ling Po
Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above
And Mark Twain once said, “Distance lends enchantment to the view.”
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