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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Did You Ever Hear of Saint Fire Hydrant?
We have a spiritual practice of thinking of a fire hydrant as a saint – it’s standing there waiting to be of service. It’s a way to start reframing our relation to all the everyday things around us.
– Frederic Brussat, 100 Ways to Keep Your Soul Alive
The Question
I don’t know Who — or what — put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone — or Something — and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.
– Dag Hammarskjöld
A Reason for Hope
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Cultivate the Gift of Appreciation
Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
– Abraham H. Maslow
We Walk a Narrow Bridge
Life is a very narrow bridge between two eternities. Be not afraid.
– Rabbi Nachman of Braslav
Simply Marvelous
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
– Aristotle
Needing Beauty
Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike.
– John Muir
Open Your Eyes
As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.
– Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Gift of Breath
Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
– Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
Honoring the Mystery of Life
Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.
– Kent Nerburn
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