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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wednesday of Hope – You are the Sky
You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.
– Pema Chodron
No Strangers
In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger.
– Kobayashi Issa
Wednesday of Hope – Always Dream
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
– Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
Seeing God in All Things
Either we acknowledge that God is in all things, or we have lost the basis for seeing God in anything.
– Richard Rohr
Wednesday of Hope – The Power of Goodness
A good deed doesn’t just evaporate and disappear. Its consequences saturate the universe and the goodness that happens somewhere, anywhere, helps in the transfiguration of the ugliness.
– Desmond Tutu
Wisdom of the Guest
The Guest
The Guest is inside you, and also inside me;
You know the sprout is hidden inside the seed.
We are all struggling; none of us has gone far.
Let your arrogance go and look around inside.The blue sky opens out further and farther,
The daily sense of failure goes away.
The damage I have done to myself fades.
A million suns come forward with light.
When I sit firmly in that world.–Kabir
Wednesday of Hope – Deep Trust
Deep trust in life is not a feeling but a stance that you deliberately take. It is the attitude we call courage.
– David Steindal-Rast
