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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
The Miracle of Gratitude
The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see.
- Robert Holden
Drinking Tea
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation
When we wash clothes, chop wood, water the vegetables, or drive the car – wherever we are, whatever we are doing, if the energies of mindfulness are present in our mind and body, then we are practicing meditation.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, The Energy of Prayer
Exit or Entry?
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
- Tom Stoppard
The Cosmic Dance
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
- Thomas Merton
This is one of the “Cool Globes” that was on display at Chrissy Field in 2008.
Live in the Present
Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold.
- Peace Pilgrim
A Lovely Day
For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
- Bernie S. Siegel, Prescriptions for Living
What Is Waiting for Us?
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
How Grass Grows
Imperfect, limited, and vulnerable as I am, the sun still shines upon me, things do work out, food appears, rain falls, wonderful conversations take place, and the grass grows without any help from me.
- Dharmavidya David Brazier
Bloom
Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
- E. B. White
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