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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Why We Plant Roses
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
– George Eliot
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Turning toward Light
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
– Richard Rohr
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Beholding the Art with which It has been Made
I want creation to penetrate you with so much admiration that wherever you go, the least plant may bring you the clear remembrance of the Creator. A single plant, a blade of grass or one speck of dust is sufficient to occupy all your intelligence in beholding the art with which it has been made.
– Basil the Great
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You Are the Mirror
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
– Kahlil Gibran
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The Moon Inside
There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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Earth Prayer – Part 6
O nameless spirit that is not done with us,
let us love without a net
beyond the fear of death
until the speck of peace
we guard so well
becomes the world.
– Mark Nepo
Starting August 13th, Santa Sabina Center is offering an online retreat with Mark Nepo. Quotes from today through the 13th are from Mark’s poem entitled, “Earth Prayer,” from the book The Way Under the Way. To learn more about this wonderful offering, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/node/199
Earth Prayer – Part 5
O let us embrace
that unexpected moment of unity
as the atom of God
Let us have the courage
to hold each other when we break
and worship what unfolds . . .
– Mark Nepo
Starting August 13th, Santa Sabina Center is offering an online retreat with Mark Nepo. Quotes from today through the 13th are from Mark’s poem entitled, “Earth Prayer,” from the book The Way Under the Way. To learn more about this wonderful offering, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/node/199
Earth Prayer – Part 4
Let us live for the grace beneath all we want,
let us see it in everything and everyone,
till we admit to the mystery
that when I look deep enough into you,
I find me, and when you dare to hear my fear
in the recess of your heart, you recognize it
as your secret which you thought
no one else knew,
– Mark Nepo
Starting August 13th, Santa Sabina Center is offering an online retreat with Mark Nepo. Quotes from today through the 13th are from Mark’s poem entitled, “Earth Prayer,” from the book The Way Under the Way. To learn more about this wonderful offering, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/node/199
Earth Prayer – Part 3
Let us live deep enough
till there is only one direction,
and slow enough till there is only
the beginning of time,
and loud enough in our hearts
till there is no need to speak.
– Mark Nepo
Starting August 13th, Santa Sabina Center is offering an online retreat with Mark Nepo. Quotes from today through the 13th are from Mark’s poem entitled, “Earth Prayer,” from the book The Way Under the Way. To learn more about this wonderful offering, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/node/199
Earth Prayer – Part 2
Let us, when swimming with the stream,
become the stream.
Let us, when moving with the music,
become the music.
Let us, when rocking the wounded,
become the suffering.
– Mark Nepo
Starting August 13th, Santa Sabina Center is offering an online retreat with Mark Nepo. Quotes from today through the 13th are from Mark’s poem entitled, “Earth Prayer,” from the book The Way Under the Way. To learn more about this wonderful offering, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/node/199
