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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
What a Wonderful Life!
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
– Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Quoted in Age Doesn’t Matter Unless You’re a Cheese, by Kathryn and Ross Petras
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Warrior of the Heart
“To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart.”
- Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart
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Sharing the Joy
“I was walking down the street in New York City one day, when I heard a woman’s voice saying, ‘I was very sick all winter.’ Intrigued, I turned around and saw the woman handing a street person, sitting on the sidewalk, some money. She went on talking to him. ‘I had pneumonia, and every time I started to get better, I’d have a relapse. Now I am finally really getting better, and I just wanted to share the joy.’”
- Sharon Salzberg, The Force of Kindness
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Contemplating the Beauty of Earth
“Those who contemplate the beauty of Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
- Rachel Carson
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Watching the Eternal Show
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
- John Muir
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The Gift of Uncertainty
“To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.”
- Rebecca Solnit
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What Is My Work?
“My work is loving the world.”
- Mary Oliver
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Being Touched by Mystery
“The mystery of God touches us — or does not — in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.”
- Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself
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Be the Artist . . . . Be the Healer
“At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer.”
- Rachel Naomi Remen
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Finding the Still Point
“At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us… It is like a pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven. It is in everybody, and if we could see it we would see these billions of points of light coming together in the face and blaze of a sun that would make all the darkness and cruelty of life vanish completely…I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere.”
- Thomas Merton
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