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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
A Strong Mind
If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Just Living
“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.
- Hans Christian Anderson
Celebrating Wildflowers
For me, celebrating the wildflowers or the birds is like a kind of worship.
- Michael Longley
Watering
Learn to selectively water the positive seeds and flowers in you by attending to them. There are enough weeds. You don’t have to encourage them.
- Thomas Bien, Water the Flowers, Not the Weeds
The Blossom
We are always interested in the flower, but not the tedium of the blossoming. But that process from bud to blossom is when things really happen.
- Author Unknown
The Miraculous Flower
The Miraculous Flower
If we belong to the sun and its warmth, to the bud and the sprout, to the miraculous flower, we also belong to the wind, the naked branch, the cold.
- Fabiana Fondevila
Rewards of a Simple Life
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
- John Burroughs
Peace Is Every Step
Peace is every step.
The shining red sun is my heart.
Each flower smiles with me.
How green, how fresh all that grows.
How cool the wind blows.
Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step
Friend of Silence
God is the friend of silence. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence.
- Mother Teresa
The Bud’s Undoing
The flower is always the bud’s undoing. Let go then.
- Pavithrka K. Mehta
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