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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Planetary Peace
“If planetary peace seems beyond our reach, recall: Miracles are natural when we rely on the Source of All to carry our burdens with us. Then, even peace is possible.”
- Nan Merrill with Barbara Taylor, Peace Planet: Light for Our World
The Times Are Urgent
The times are urgent; let us slow down.
- African Saying
Be a Lamp
Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
- Rumi
Finding Awe
We can find awe, then, in eight wonders of life: moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, life and death, and epiphany.
- Dacher Keltner
Look Deeply
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Peace Is Generous
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
- Oscar Romero
Don’t Plan
Don’t plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
- Julia Alvarez
Windows or Walls
Words are windows, or they’re walls. They sentence us or set us free. When I speak and when I hear, Let the love light shine through me.
- Ruth Bebermeyer
We Are Nature
We are nature and we are it all the time, no matter how far away or how close we perceive it to be at each moment.
- Fabiana Fondevila
Eye of the Beholder
People often say that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.
- Salma Hayek
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