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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Starting the Day
We can start our day with the happiness of a smile and the aspiration to dedicate ourselves to the path of love and understanding. We are aware that today is a fresh, new day, and we have twenty-four precious hours to live.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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Love Earth
This is what you should do:
Love the Earth and sun and animals,
despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants,
argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence toward the people…
reexamine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,
dismiss what insults your very soul insults your very soul,
and your flesh shall become a great poem.
– Walt Whitman, Excerpt from Preface to 1855 edition, Leaves of Grass
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Pray to Love
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
– Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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Redeemed by Love
I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
– Wendell Berry
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The Measure of Love
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members, a heart of grace, and a soul generated by love.
– Coretta Scott King
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Wonder More
The more I wonder, the more I love.
– Alice Walker
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Discoveries of Love
Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise – then you will discover the fullness of your life.
– David Steindl-Rast
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Going Nowhere
Going nowhere … isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
– Leonard Cohen
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Bearing Beams of Love
And we are put on Earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love.
– William Blake
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Naming
“… I wonder what it would be like to go into a forest where nothing has a name… if we started all over, giving names, would any fact about the forest compel us to name the same units? Would we label trees? Or instead find a name for the unity of roots and soil and microorganisms? Or would we label only the gross of light on leaves and the shape of shadows on bark? How would we act in a forest with no names for anything smaller than an ecosystem? How could we walk, if there were no way to talk about anything larger than a cell?”
- Kathleen Dean Moore
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