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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Listening to the Divine through the Natural World
[T]he divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.
– Thomas Berry, The Sacred Universe (2009)
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Gardens Say “I Love You”
A garden is a way that the land says, “I love you.”…Gardens are simultaneously a material and a spiritual undertaking.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Only Sacred Places
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
- Wendell Berry
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We Are a One-Day Dandelion
“We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.”
- Louise Erdrich
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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
Join us for a silent retreat in the Dominican Tradition from August 2-7, 2002 . . . “Abiding in the Tent of Meeting>” To learn more and/or register for Santa Sabina Center online retreats and offerings, please go to: http://www.santasabinacenter.org.
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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