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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wisdom from the Medieval Mystic
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw God in all things and all things in God.
– Mechtild of Magdeburg
Mechtild a Beguine, was a medieval mystic, who lived c. 1207 – c. 1282/1294.
Permeated with God
Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care.
– Marcus J. Borg, Conflict, Holiness, and Politics
How Much Do You Value Freedom? Whose Freedom?
Unfortunately these zebra are not free. I have mixed feelings about zoos. What about you? All good things are wild, and free.
– Henry David Thoreau
Why do we prefer to contain them?
Heart Touching Words of Rumi
What draws you? – Jalaluddin Rumi Essential Rumi, versions by Coleman Barks
Wise Words from The Buddha
Let us share our light so that others can find the next step. If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.
– The Buddha
Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgia
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
― Marcel Proust
Breathe – Just Breathe
The whole universe is breathing as our breath; we limit the process by our assumption that we are doing the breathing.
– Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Alchemical Wisdom
I like to think, sometimes, when meditating that I am not so much breathing, as being breathed.
A Thought to Remember in the Dry Passes of Our Lives
I am always amazed at flowers blooming in the desert Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds…flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.
– Ann Haymond Zwinger, The Mysterious Lands
Thoughts on Hope – 16
At the bottom of the heart of every human being there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered and witnessed, that is good and not evil will be done to her. It is this above all that is sacred in every human life.
– Simone Weil
Thoughts on Hope – 15
Hope has two beautiful daughters – their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
– St. Augustine
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