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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
A Drop of Water in a Deep Ravine
“However deep your
Knowledge of the scriptures
It is no more than a strand of hair
In the vastness of space;
However important appears
Your worldly experience,
It is but a drop of water in a deep ravine.”
- Tokusan
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Peace
“Over all the mountaintops is peace
In all the treetops, scarcely a breath;
The little birds in the forest are silent.
Wait then; you, too, will have peace.”
- Goethe
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The Chords that Bind It All
“To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.”
- Barry Lopez
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Extraordinary Advent
“The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.”
- Frederick Buechner
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Is Life Ever Ordinary?
“I no longer feel that life is ordinary. Everyday life is filled with mystery. The things we know are only a small part of the things we cannot know but can only glimpse. Yet even the smallest of glimpses can sustain us. Mystery seems to have the power to comfort, to offer hope, and to lend meaning in times of loss and pain. In surprising was it is the mysterious that strengthens us at such times . . . What I have found in the end was that the life I had defended as a doctor as precious was also Holy.”
- Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom
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The Nature of the Moon
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.”
- Deng Ming-Dao
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Gratitude Begets Happiness
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
– Dennis Waitley
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Nature Arousing Gratitude
My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.
– Oliver Sacks
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ThanksLiving
ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.
– Matthew Henry
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All Embracing Gratefulness
Our approach to gratefulness has to be big enough to embrace all the difficulties of the world.
– David Steindl-Rast, spoken teaching on May 5, 2007
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