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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Category: Spirituality
The Summer within Our Winter
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus
Wednesday of Hope – Hope Is Unstoppable
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. ― Pablo Neruda
Shall We Stay or Shall We Go?
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain. – Mary Catherine Bateson
Wednesday of Hope – An Orientation of the Soul
Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times. ― Václav Havel
Tarrying
All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy. – Rainer Maria Rilke, In Praise of Mortality, translated and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
Wednesday of Hope . . . . Waiting for Dawn
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore
The Now
At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now. – David Steindl-Rast, A Listening Heart
Wednesday of Hope . . . . It Just Makes Sense
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. – I have seen this quote attributed to several people, but I believe it is by Vaclav Havel
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