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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
What Do We Need?
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.
- Michael Josephson
The Doorway to Gratitude
Attention is the doorway to gratitude, the doorway to wonder, the doorway to reciprocity.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
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
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