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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wednesday of Hope – Hope Is Not Unrealistic
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful.
– Paul Hawken
Bring forth a Flower
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
– Shigenori Kameoka
Wednesday of Hope – Nothing is Hopeless
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
– Charles L. Allen
How Beautiful Can Life Be?
How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.
– Charles Eisenstein
Wednesday of Hope – Courage to Fail
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
When Is Time Really Wasted?
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Wednesday of Hope – Humor and Perspective
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.
– Václav Havel
All is the Moon
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
– Matsuo Basho
Wednesday of Hope – Wait
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.– T.S. Eliott
What Happens Here, Happens There
Pick a flower and you move a farthest star.
– Paul Dirac
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