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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
The Mark of Wisdom
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
What Do the Mountains Tell Us?
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
– John Muir
What Time Do You Have?
The trouble is, you think you have time.
– Buddha
From Where Have You Come?
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
– Henry Ward Beecher
So How Is Winter for You?
Everyone keeps asking – since I’ve moved from San Francisco to the Chicago area – how it’s going for me. How am I adjusting to winter in the midwest. Actually, I think that the snow is beautiful, and, really, it’s people that I miss. And I stumbled upon this quote the other day:
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
– Anton Chekhov
Wisdom of the Ages
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
– Ansel Adams
The Wisdom of Rachel Carson
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?”
– Rachel Carson
The Wisdom of Kahil Gibran
In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
– Kahil Gibran, The Prophet
The Wisdom of Henry David Thoreau
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Entry or Exit?
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
– Tom Stoppard
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