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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Category: Spirituality
Wise Words from The Buddha
If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path. – The Buddha
Breathe – Just Breathe
The whole universe is breathing as our breath; we limit the process by our assumption that we are doing the breathing. – Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Alchemical Wisdom I like to think, sometimes, when meditating that I am not so much breathing, as being… Continue Reading “Breathe – Just Breathe”
A Thought to Remember in the Dry Passes of Our Lives
Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds…flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism. – Ann Haymond Zwinger, The Mysterious Lands
Thoughts on Hope – 16
At the bottom of the heart of every human being there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered and witnessed, that is good and not evil will be done to her. It is this… Continue Reading “Thoughts on Hope – 16”
Thoughts on Hope – 15
Hope has two beautiful daughters – their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. – St. Augustine
Thoughts on Hope – 14
[The one] who has health, has hope. And [the one] who has hope, has everything. – Arab Proverb
Thoughts on Hope – 13
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Thoughts on Hope – 12
Prayer is hope’s breathing. When we stop praying, we stop hoping. – Pedro Casaldaliga
Thoughts on Hope – 11
Everything can be taken from us but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. – Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Thoughts on Hope – 10
Hope is essential to generate the needed warm temperature and loving atmospher required to ensure that the forces of cynicism, greed and violence do not suck the life out of the divine dream a-birthing in you. – Edward Hays
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