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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Prayer
The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer.
– Attributed to the Prophet Muhammad
Wednesday of Hope – Seeing Light
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
– Desmond Tutu
Everything Has Beauty
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
– Confucius
Wednesday of Hope – Tragedy, a Source of Strength
There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.
― Dalai Lama XIV
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 – Living in Hope
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Discovering the Threads
Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.
– Roshi Joan Halifax, Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
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
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