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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
How Big is Your Journey?
It’s just too big a journey to ever get beyond being astounded, being surprised by the mystery.
• Joseph Sharp in Spiritual Maturity
Wisdom from Joan Chittister
Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. . . . Just to see. Just to notice. Just to be there.
• Joan Chittister in The Gift of Years
To notice the light
Go On Pilgrimage
Unlike mere travel, a pilgrimage is a journey into the landscape of the soul.
• Vivienne Hull in Pilgrim Heart by Sarah York
Silence
There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.
• Eugene Kennedy in The Wonders of Solitude edited by Dale Salwak
Mystery in the Cosmos
Occasionally – at a waterfall, on a walk, hugging someone we love- we glimpse a trace of infinity. Something inside us remembers the oneness.
• Daniel C. Matt in God and the Big Bang
Oh, Wow!!
In every act, or any act, look at the wonder of God’s creation, and say, “Oh, wow!” Make that your goal for this year – say “Oh wow!” and mean it, at least once a day.
• Terry Bookman in The Busy Soul
Mystery in a Traffic Light
Life’s wonder and mystery can be discovered as easily at a traffic light as on a mountaintop.
• Ezra Bayda in Saying Yes to Life
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
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