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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Blessed Just as You Are
Accept your concrete individuality, and having done that, then you may also realize you are blessed just as you are.
- Ruben Habito
Seekers
Seekers are people of faith even if they do not belong to a particular religion. Faith in this sense is deeper than one’s belief system. Belief systems belong to the level of pluralism; faith to the level of unity. Faith is constitutive of human nature itself. It is openness to Ultimate Mystery before it is broken down into various belief systems. It is the acceptance of authentic living with all it creativity and the acceptance of dying with its potential for greater fullness of life.
- Thomas Keating, OCSO
Wisdom of Mark Twain
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Mark Twain
At the Crossroads
Happiness is not given to us, nor is misery imposed. At every moment we are at a crossroads and must choose the direction we will take.
- Matthieu Ricard
Bird Song
A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world’s.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Hold On
“When you get into a tight place and it seems you can’t go on, hold on, for that’s just the place and the time that the tide will turn.”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Where Are You?
“Wherever you are is the entry point.”
- Kabir
Wisdom of the Pueblo People
“Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here. Hold on to life, even when it is easier letting go. Hold on to my hand, even when I have gone away from you.”
- Pueblo Blessing
Wisdom of the Chippewa
“Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky.”
- Chippewa, translated by Robert Bly
Today and Everyday
“Everyday, think as you wake up: Today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself to expand my heart out to others for the benefit of all beings.”
- Dalai Lama
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