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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
To Be Alive
“To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it — is a wonder beyond words.”
- Joanna Macy
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We Are Ocean
We feel like separate water droplets but we are also ocean.
- Jane Hirshfield
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The Ground Is Our Ancestors
“You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that Earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that Earth is our mother. Whatever befalls Earth, befalls the children of Earth. If humans spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
This we know. Earth does not belong to us; we belong to Earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.”
- Chief Seattle
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Protecting Peace
“Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new harmony. When it is small, peace is fragile. Like a baby, it needs nurturing attention. We must protect peace from violence and perversion if it is to grow. We must be strong to do this. But force, even in the name of honor, is always tragic. Instead, we must use the strength of wisdom and conscience. Only that power can nurture peace in this difficult time.”
- Deng Ming Dao
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You Are the Sky
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”
- Pema Chödrön
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Hiding Somewhere Near Us
“In all ten directions of the universe.
there is only one truth. When we see clearly,
the great teachings are the same
What can ever be lost? What can be obtained?
If we attain something, it was there from/ the beginning of time.
If we lost something,
it is hiding somewhere near us.”
- Ryokan
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The Not So Simple Truth
“The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.”
- Walt Whitman
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The Breath of Love in Us
“As timely as a river God’s timeless life passes
Into this world. It passes/
Through bodies, giving life,
And past them, giving death.
The secret fish leaps up Into the light and is
Again darkened. The sun
Comes from the dark, it lights
The always passing river,
Shines on the great-branched tree,
And goes. Longing and dark,
We are completely filled
With breath of love, in us
Forever incomplete.”
- Wendell Berry, Given: Poems
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When to Plant a Tree
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
- Chinese Proverb
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Awash in Mystery
“Our planet is awash in the gentle light and shadow of an impenetrable Mystery; it is time, in spite of all our vaunted learning and might, to kneel at the rim of the abyss of our profound unknowing.”
- Marv and Nancy Hiles, All the Days of My Life
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