OPreach
Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Trough
There is a trough in waves,
A low spot
Where horizon disappears
And only sky
And water
Are our company.
– Judy Brown, From the poem “Trough” – book The Sea Accepts All Rivers
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Nature As Teacher
Nature is the great teacher. Shakyamuni went to the jungle to find its teachings, Moses up the mountain, Jesus to the desert, and Bodhidharma and Muhammad to their caves. We tend to forget this, so it is important to have a practice that reminds us of it again.
– Clark Strand, Turn Out the Lights
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Reflections of Our Minds
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
– Eihei Dogen
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Caminante
Walker, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more.
Walker, there is no road, the road is made by walking.
Walking you make the road, and turning to look behind
you see the path you never again will step upon.
Walker, there is no road, only foam trails on the sea.
– Antonio Machado
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
What Do You Seek?
What you seek is seeking you.
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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The Sparks of God’s Brilliance
All living beings are, so to speak, sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance. These sparks mere from God like rays of the sun.”
– Hildegard of Bingen
Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023. To learn more and/or register, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org/retreats-page
Before Spring
There is a hard truth to be told: before spring becomes beautiful, it is plug ugly, nothing but mud and muck. I have walked in the early spring through fields that will suck your boots off, a world so wet and woeful it makes you yearn for the return of ice. But in that muddy mess, the conditions for rebirth are being created.
– Parker Palmer
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Transforming Hatred to Love
May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.
– Shantideva
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Who Am I?
Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between these two banks the river of my life flows.
– Nisargadatta Maharaj
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For Ash Wednesday
Untouchable Beauty
You flowers and trees, you hills and streams, you fields, flocks, and wild birds, you books, you poems, and you people, I am utterly alone in the midst of you. I am solitary and helpless, surrounded by a beauty that can never belong to me. And God, who is the only one who can be loved for His own sake alone, remains invisible and unimaginable and untouchable, beyond everything else that exists. He is mirrored in all things like sunlight in clean water; but if I try to drink the light that is in the water I only shatter the reflection.
– Thomas Merton, Journal Entry, Lent 1949
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