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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
God’s Presence Fills Creation
Holy One of Blessing, Your Presence fills creation.
– Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
Wisdom from a Dominican Mystic – Meister Eckhart
Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.
– Meister Eckhart, Dominican mystic of the 13th century
Delighting Ourselves in God
Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee, for Thou has formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.
– St. Augustine of Hippo
Seeking God
God guides those who seek [God’s] good pleasure into the ways of peace, bringing them out from the shadows into the light by {God’s] act of will and guiding them into a straight path.
The Qur’an
Are We in Tune with the Eternal?
It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice withing and have explosions of inspirational insight.
– Dr. Rober Schuller
Wisdom from Dag Hammarskjold
The longest journey is the journey inward.
– Dag Hammarskjold
Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree
How many of you remember that wonderful song by Gordon Lightfoot, “Carefree Highway?”
Carefree highway, let me slip away on you.
Carefree highway, you seen better days.
The mornin’ after blues from my head down to my shoes –
Carefree highway, let me slip away,
Slip away on you.
In case you’d like to hear the song,
here is the YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa9XVvMtBVk
How True Is This?
I came across this quote and wondered, “How true is this for me? Do I want it to be true for me? What am I willing to do to make it not be so?”
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.
– Wilbur Rees
Nature’s Equilibrium
Nature is evenly balanced. We cannot disturb her equilibrium, for we know that the law of Cause and Effect is the unerring and inexorable law of nature; but we do fail to find our own equilibrium as nations and as individuals, because we have not yet learned that the same law works as inexorably in human life and in society as in nature – that what we sow, we must inevitably reap.
– Sidney Bremer, Spirit of Apollo
Uncontrollable Nature
Nature just, “is.” It cannot be controlled. People can mess around with it. They can interfere with it. They can pollute it. They can damage it. They can degrade it. But they can never really control. it. The sun will rise every day. The sun will set every day. Those mountains will be there whether you look at them or not. Nature is there, even when you don’t ask it to be. It doesn’t demand anything from you. It just is, and all you have to do is experience and appreciate it.
– JoAnn Valenti
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