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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Category: Spirituality
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
Wednesday of Hope . . . . in Stillness
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. – Howard Thurman
Joys of the Unexpected
Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be? – Elizabeth Bibesco, Balloons
Wednesday of Hope . . . . 9
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. ― Václav Havel
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