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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
The Mysterious
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
- Albert Einstein
True Seeing
But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Finding Art
Art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its handkerchief, that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance too.
- W.E.B. Du Bois
The Great Book
Our children need to learn not only how to read books composed by human genius but also how to read the Great Book of the World. Reading this Great Book is natural to children.
- Thomas Berry
Change
All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. the only lasting truth is Change.
- Octavia E. Butler
The Law of Nature
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
- Michael Faraday
Holy Land
“The Holy Land is everywhere.”
- Black Elk
Key to Joy
The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
- Mark Nepo
Poem or Picture
“A picture is a poem without words.”
- Horace
Joy Is Not Naive
Choosing to have joy is not naively thinking everything will be easy. It is courageously believing that there is still hope, even when things get hard.
- Morgan Harper Nichols
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