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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
What Do We Love?
In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
– Baba Dioum , Senegalese Conservationist
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Beauty and Humility
During the month of February, the theme of the quotes are love and compassion.
Beauty and Humility
“Whenever you make something with love, you feel humbled. You could not make such beautiful things on your own. It must come through divine inspiration. In that way, beauty and humility go together. It is an act of surrender to the divine source. The divine inspiration uses your body, your hands and your talents as a channel for beauty.”
– Satish Kumar, Heron Dance Interview (Issue 11)
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The Wonders and Realities of the Universe
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
– Rachel Carson
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The Spell of the Sea
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
– Jacques Cousteau
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Wonder of Earth
I am so absorbed in the wonder of Earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
– Pearl S. Buck
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Engagement with Mystery
To be a contemplative is to be a watch in the night for the approach of Mystery. And it is a readiness to be transformed in an engagement with that Mystery.
– Mirabai Starr
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May I Find You in Every Living Soul
You are above me, O God,
you are within.
You are in all things
yet contained by no thing.
Teach me to seek you in all that has life
that I may see you as the Light of life.
Teach me to search for you in my own depths
that I may find you in every living soul.
– John Philip Newell, Sounds of the Eternal: A Celtic Psalter
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Our Sisters and Brothers
Francis called all creatures, no matter how small, by the name of brother and sister; because he knew they had the same source as himself.
– Saint Bonaventure (1217-1274), Bonaventure, The Life of Saint Francis, trans. Ewert Cousins
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I Want My Blood to Become Sap
I don’t want to be remembered. I want my blood to become sap, my bones to become roots, my breath to become the wind. Even wanting is not so important. Even wanting will become something new.
– Gabriel Andreas, StoryPeople
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The Path
I don’t know what my path is yet. I’m just walking on it.
– Olivia Newton-John
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