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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Forgiveness of the Violet
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
-Mark Twain in Untrain Your Parrot by Elizabeth Ham
ilton
To Develop the Eye of an Artist
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
– Henri Matisse
Another View of Compassion
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
– Thomas Merton in The Mystic Hours by Wayne Teasdale
All Creation Teaches Us
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
– Black Elk in All Our Relatives by Paul Goble
Using Wise Caution
Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river.
– A Chang Proverb in Generous Strangers by John Skoyles
Wisdom of Don Quixote
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
-Don Quixote
Choose Hope
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
-Christopher Reeve
How Do You Know What Is Important?
A certain Bektashi dervish was respected for his piety and appearance of virtue. Whenever anyone asked him how he had become so holy, he always answered: “I know what is in the Koran.” One day he had just given this reply to an enquirer in a coffee-house, when an imbecile asked: “Well, what is in the Koran?” “In the Koran,” said the Bektashi, “there are two pressed flowers and a letter from my friend Abdullah.
-Idries Shah
If You Truly Desire Peace . . .
Love it the way it is.
-Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment
What tracks do you leave?
A good traveler leaves no track.
-Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
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